At ALEC's Annual Meeting, MAGA Hat-Wearing Members Pursue "America First Agenda"

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At ALEC's Annual Meeting, MAGA Hat-Wearing Members Pursue "America First Agenda"
Rewriting the constitution, protecting fossil fuel interests, undermining public education, and more are on the agenda.
truthout.org
10:36 AM · Jul 28, 2021

https://truthout.org/articles/at-alecs-annual-meeting-maga-hat-wearing-members-pursue-america-first-agenda/

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is holding its first post-Trump in-person meeting this week in Salt Lake City, Utah at the five-star Grand America Hotel.

While Trump is no longer in office, ALEC members still wearing their MAGA hats can participate in Trump-themed trainings such as, “Achieving and Using Political Power: How You Implement an America First Agenda,” and “Writing the History of the Future: Messaging Strategies to Reclaim States’ Power & American Exceptionalism.”

The Annual Meeting kicked off on Monday with an “exclusive, invitation-only academy” for state lawmakers with the dark money voter suppression group the Honest Elections Project, where ALEC politicians were “to discuss the implementation of new election legislation” with three secretaries of state, among other “fun and educational” events, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) reported.

The Annual Meeting will provide a platform for a number of high-profile Trump loyalists. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R), former Secretary of Energy Rick Perry (R), U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R), Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz, and ALEC’s favorite economists Stephen Moore and Art Laffer are all scheduled to speak.

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[Chainfire]

1. Planning the demise of Democracy right out in front of God and everybody....

[highplainsdem]

2. Damn. ALEC again. I did a lot of digging into what they were up to 10 years ago:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x591230


They're still doing way too much damage, and largely flying under the radar.

[rickyhall]

3. ALEC is a terrorist organization.