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Dear Sir or Madam: When were you an ALEC member and what role did you play in ALEC? How much money did you (or your constituents) pay in "dues" versus your corporate "equals" in ALEC? Which votes on which ALEC bills were simply for the good of your district? It's all well and good to assert such generic claims, but let's talk specifics. On the issue of NCSL, it is simply false to contend that NCSL is some sort of liberal-biased alternative to ALEC. Please show me any evidence you have of various supposedly "Dem" model bills from NCSL that are anything akin to the right-wing agenda being stoked via ALEC. For example, I challenge you to send me a link to any of the rare NCSL bills that exist that would prove your point, let alone document some sort of pack of pro-union bills that would act as a counter-weight to the anti-worker bills and agenda pushed by ALEC corporations. However, it is the case that corporations have been attempting to exert increased influence on NCSL members via the separate NCSL Foundation, in an effort perhaps to replicate their success within ALEC, but the primary groups (NCSL and ALEC) remain markedly dissimilar despite claims by some that they are equivalent. Here is an article we prepared that compares the groups: https://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/07/10882/comparison-alec-and-ncsl What's your rebuttal to this comparison? Also, if you've got corporate NCSL model bills to share, we'll investigate it. Lisa