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Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company

ALEC was the subject of the September 29, 2012 edition of Moyers & Company hosted by Bill Moyers. In the report, Moyers traced the progress of ALEC model legislation through several legislatures. He called it

"an organization hiding in plain sight, yet one of the most influential and powerful in American politics... They were smart and understood something very important: that they might more easily get what they wanted from state capitals than from Washington, DC. So they started putting their money in places like Raleigh, North Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee; Phoenix, Arizona; and Madison, Wisconsin."

As part of the report, Mark Pocan, a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
was identified as a legislator "trying to expose ALEC’s fingerprints". Pocan said

"ALEC is a corporate dating service for lonely legislators and corporate special interests that eventually the relationship culminates with some special interest legislation and hopefully that lives happily ever after as the ALEC model. Unfortunately what’s excluded from that equation is the public." .. http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-united-states-of-alec/
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The Moyers video is about 56 minutes.