American Legislative Exchange Council d
ALEC: Established in 1973 by Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation's
Coalition for Constitutional Liberties, among others, ALEC's purpose is to
reach out to state office holders. In the words of ALEC's former executive
director, Sam Brunelli:

"ALEC's goal is to ensure that these state legislators are so well informed, so
well armed, that they can set the terms of the public policy debate, that they
can change the agenda, that they can lead. This is the infrastructure that will
reclaim the states for our movement." [Media Transparency: ALEC]

ALEC has the financial support of more than 200 corporations including Coors
now Castle Rock Foundation, Scaife's Family and Allegheny Foundation, Amway,
IBM, Ford, Philip Morris, Exxon, Texaco and Shell Oil. William Bennett, [CNP's]
Jack Kemp, [CNP's] John Sununu, and George Bush have all addressed ALEC
sessions in recent years.[Media Transparency: ALEC]

Samuel Brunelli is listed as a member of Chester Finn’s Education Policy
Committee which interfaces with GOALS 2000 [‘95]. Both American Legislative
Exchange Council [ALEC–conservative] and the ALEC counterpart, the National
Conference of State Legislatures [NCSL–liberal], blanket state legislators
with their MODEL legislation. ALEC boasts a membership of over 3,000 state
legislators; additionally there are over 450 corporate members. ALEC supports
charter school legislation and ALEC literature discusses their promotion of
"public/private partnerships" as a solution to reform government. These
partnerships will utilize public funds, but will remove accountability to
taxpayers
.
 There is a high correlation of GOALS 2000 related corporations who are members
of ALEC. [ See ALEC Corporate Members ] Citizens Commission for Human Rights
(CCHR) is a Scientology front which funds ALEC.

An offshoot of ALEC, April 1, 1998 honored the wife of Sun Myung Moon, Dr. Hak
Ja Han Moon. The award was presented by Robin Brunelli, president of the
National Foundation for Women Legislators and the wife of Sam Brunelli, the ex-
Director of ALEC and long-time member of the CNP. Her husband, former Reagan
administration official Sam Brunelli, joined her for the tribute. At the same
meeting a "Champion of Family and Community" award was given to Robin along
with six other recipients." Rabbi Herzel Krantz, chairman of the
American-Jewish Assembly, also provided a moving historical moment at the
meeting when he read another plaque’s tribute to Rev. and Mrs. Moon."
[Unification.net] National Foundation for Women Legislators has many corporate
sponsors including Coors Brewing Company, Eli Lilly Company, The White House. [
Source: http://www.seekgod.ca/cnp.b.htm ]

Added info  re: Bruce Wiseman  
Reproduced from http://www.alecwatch.org/chaptersix.html:

Corporate America's Trojan Horse in the States
The Untold Story Behind the American Legislative Exchange Council

Chapter Six -- A Brief History: ALEC’s Formation, Growth, and Transformation

Sometime in this mid-1990s, for example, the Church of Scientology became
one of ALEC’s underwriters, for the apparent purpose of interacting with
state lawmakers on mentalhealth-care issues. Here’s an excerpt from a 1998
fundraising letter written by Bruce Wiseman, the president of the Citizens
Commission on Human Rights International, a highly controversial offshoot
of the Church of Scientology.

"Two years ago we started a similar project with the American Legislative
Exchange Council," Wiseman writes. "ALEC is a national organization made
up of legislators from every state as well as some federal legislators who
meet and draft 'model legislation' for every state. The bean return for
that has been enormous!  CCHR has worked its way up the conditions at ALEC
and recently got an article published by ALEC in opposition to mandated
mental-health parity, which went to key state legislators who deal with
health issues in their respective states. In addition, the ALEC membership
has opened the door to meeting numerous legislators and other opinion
leaders from around the country. . . ."

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