UPDATED: American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Releases FULL Donor and Membership Lists
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." - Thomas Jefferson in a letter to his friend George Logan, 1816 ALEC is the execution arm of a conservative ‘industry’ or the conservative political power-for-profit environment (some call this the “vast ring wing conspiracy”) created and funded by mega-wealthy ideologues, right wing organizations, and finds it roots in the Council for National Policy and the Heritage Foundation, with which it is associated. Leaders in the GOP and conservative moment have been working on a stated national strategy to take their ‘revolution’ to the States. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/01/962412/-UPDATED-American-Legislative-Exchange-Council-ALEC-Releases-FULL-Donor-and-Membership-Lists