Conservative group Alec trains sights on city and local government

[bobthedrummer]

Source: Ed Pilkington The Guardian

American Legislative Exchange Council forms new initiative
Offshoot will target "villages, towns, cities and counties"

Read more: http://theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/06/conservative-group-alec-city-local-government

[jtuck004]

1. Smart. Organizing. Wonder what their opponents will do? n/t

[bobthedrummer]

3. "their opponents"= We, the People. We are the 99%. n/t

[jtuck004]

6. Exactly. With a need to orgize in such a fashion as to overcome this.

Else we lose.

[upaloopa]

2. One of their main targets is local government employees

and their pensions and unions. They will not be happy until the own all the wealth

[Anansi1171]

4. The US press is truly pathetic-nt!

[HubertHeaver]

5. So ALEC is now becoming a Community Organizer?

[jtuck004]

7. That's how they won the elections. When that started they sent out DVDs,

gathered people who would have coffee and doughnuts in their home, and began to build their effort.

And they won elections doing it. Nothing new, just plain old organizing, Saul Alinsky style. Turns out evil can organize as well as anyone, especially where their competition is ignoring their effort.

[bobthedrummer]

10. That's not what happened here in Wisconsin n/t

[bobthedrummer]

9. Have you visited The Center for Media and Democracy's ALEC Exposed lately HubertHeaver?

ALEC Exposed
http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed

[HubertHeaver]

11. I am well aware of he origins and goals of ALEC.

My comment about ALEC becoming community organizers was an allusion to their disdain for the former community organization ACORN and for the President. That is, they are becoming what they profess to hate. Back-handed and subtle, perhaps too much so. It was in no way a compliment to the organization.

[aquart]

8. Which is why not voting in off-year elections is suicidal.

Particularly if you're a woman.

[billh58]

12. That is an apt title:

"Conservative group Alec trains sights..."

They also write vote-ready right-wing NRA-sponsored SYG and CCW laws for their bought-and-paid-for politicians to railroad through a sham legislative process at all levels of government, and it's all paid for by the Koch Brothers.

[bobthedrummer]

14. And the Koch brothers daddy was a founding member of The John Birch Society-headquartered in Wis-

consin, home of the deepest RW pockets--The Bradley Foundation, led by mein Gauleiter Walker!

[jmowreader]

13. They already did this

They started with the school boards and other low-level offices.