This is good for a laugh (washingtontimes piece on ALEC being defunded). LOL!

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Reps. Tim Scott and Allen West defend ALEC against leftist smear campaign

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2012/jul/12/reps-tim-scott-and-allen-west-defend-alec-against-/#.T_7bU9m1KBA.reddit

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ALEC, a 30 year-old non-partisan membership association for “conservative state lawmakers who shared a common belief in limited government, free markets, federalism, and individual liberty” has been fighting off the attacks but has already lost 25 corporate donors to date including: Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Miller-Coors, PepsiCo, Procter and Gamble, and Kraft. ALEC successfully assisted state lawmakers over the years with legislation, like right to work laws that often benefited the very corporations who are now dropping ALEC.

“I think the whole notion of a racist organization is just a tough one to label on ALEC. They were very receptive when I was a member of it,” Congressman Scott said. Before Mr. Scott went to Washington in 2010, he served as a South Carolina state legislator and worked with ALEC.

“I spent a lot of time working on conservative issues with [ALEC], but if the definition of a racist organization is someone that does not support the notion that you can just walk in and vote without showing who you are, it’s just ludicrous,” said Rep. Scott.

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“It sounds like covert retaliation from the left. If you can undermine the corporate sponsorship base of an organization like ALEC, then you can undermine every other conservative organization corporate sponsorship base. And you can eliminate the folks who are in opposition to what your philosophical legislative agenda is. And that’s bad for America.”

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1. ...sounds like covert retaliation from the left???

I see no mention of the idea of coherency, may be truth is enough to "eliminate the folks who are in opposition to what your philosophical legislative agenda is".

I didn't know America's democratic republic was a "covert retaliation"? BUT then maybe eh?

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2. Corporations have been so contemptuous of their customers and voters for so long. What did they

think would happen when they started the equivalent of a war against the middle class and middle class power?

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3. Unwavering loyalty and complete submission.

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4. I think that corporations are the easiest to hit

because boycotts and negative press hurt their bottom line... profits.