Today over 1000 people protested ALEC during their 40th anniversary convention in Chicago.

ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) celebrated its 40th year of existence.  Its members are comprised of 100 percent Republican/Tea Party, 1 Democrat and major corporations

I found this excerpt, when I Google ALEC, by The Center for Media and Democracy.
"ALEC is not a lobby; it is not a front group. It is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, behind closed doors, corporations hand state legislators the changes to the law they desire that directly benefit their bottom line. Along with legislators, corporations have membership in ALEC. Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to approve “model” bills. They have their own corporate governing board which meets jointly with the legislative board. (ALEC says that corporations do not vote on the board.) Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's operations. Participating legislators, overwhelmingly conservative Republicans, then bring those proposals home and introduce them in statehouses across the land as their own brilliant ideas and important public policy innovations—without disclosing that corporations crafted and voted on the bills. ALEC boasts that it has over 1,000 of these bills introduced by legislative members every year, with one in every five of them enacted into law. ALEC describes itself as a “unique,” “unparalleled” and “unmatched” organization. We agree. It is as if a state legislature had been reconstituted, yet corporations had pushed the people out the door. "
You can read more at the link below;  Basically, ALEC creates laws  designed to benefit large corporations such as dumping their waste into rivers and streams throughout the country, polluting and poisoning water, air and land without having to pay a penalty or be held accountable for destroying the earth. One of the major laws that they passed in many states is the "Stand your Ground Law".
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