Reply #16: Thanks for this PR - Amazing Statements in here - Analysis WIP

[Hector Solon]

Will have to come back to this, right now bit ragged and see that this will require very special attention and a very well-formulated.... 'mauling' is the word that comes to mind.

Just a couple items, off the cuff (not researched, verified and 'doubled' like EVERYTHING my team has posted so far - mini-rant there):

1) "NYT and WSJ did extensive research" "no story" - both the NYT and WSJ covered the Dr Cronon story WITHOUT EVEN MENTIONING (need to verify this precisely, but tired right now) ALEC at all, which was the reason for his harassment period. Even MSNBC is nervous about 'mentioning' ALEC, both Maddow and Ed Schultz have literally done associated stories on WI and other states WITHOUT MENTIONING DIRECTLY, there are reasons, not saying any detail on that, but they have sponsors remember. AND what story is no story? There are at least four maybe five stories by now.

2) Same old 'bipartisan GOP and Dem members' crap - show us (or anyone for that matter) the membership list, AND the donor list.

3) "no meeting 'governors'" - OK staff and legislators, so they never had a 'meeting' right.

4) Maddow on voting - clean story from Campus Progress with evidence & docs, very clear AND she carefully did just a screen shot of ALEC. THINK ABOUT THIS - ALEC is PO'd for a what 3-4 second SCREEN SHOT that said "ALEC". This shows dumb PR, not likely, or they really are nervous (yeah we are talking about you Ms Reagan )

5) "The complexity and diversity of ALEC’s public and private sector members logically suggest that there are differing opinions on almost every policy position" - models on 'voted on' according to accounts ALEC's and others, and made "the model". This press release is written to steer away from what must be the majority of ALEC daily activity which is the 45% private sector membership. NOBODY knows what 'services' they are offering in the back like consulting. They behave like a commercial market research company, and there is more revenue in the 'consulting' and 'project side' of that type of business model

6) "Rich States, Poor States is used by state legislators throughout the country to find sound, conservative, successful budgeting practices." - Have a whole piece coming out on that piece of work and the flunkies that wrote and 'brief' it, have details on that one.

7) ALEC reports in general - they are non-peer reviewed, written by youngsters and small teams, bunk, there are examples of bad data in these reports out there already.

8) "Quite a few reporters from state and local media have called or emailed with an unfortunate biased agenda" - Not even going there.

We should systematically FIOA ALL emails from our State Houses to and from ALEC, on
MORE tomorrow, need a scotch right now and some sleep.