American Legislative Exchange Council. ALEC. Kind of rolls off the tongue like an innocuous and boring Goo Goo (Good Government, in the innimitalbe words of Paul Weyrich in 1980) organization. Sounds like a bunch of do-gooders that no one pays attention to, and that never gets anything done. There have been quite a few Diaries lately about this, unfortunately, very successful renegade radical Republican organization.
Without getting into too much detail that has already been extensively covered elsewhere, please take a few seconds to listen to what ALEC founder and funder Paul Weyrich really thinks about voters. This is a very early and clear expression of Republican desires, which is now being implemented legislatively with a massive push from ALEC, to suppress voter turnout. Bottom line, Republicans win more elections with low turnout than they do with high turnout. For your viewing pleasure, 38 seconds, courtesy of YouTube.
To my point. The American Legislative Exchange Council is having a Spring Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio April 28 and 28, 2011. I started making comments in ALEC Diaries that progressives should take it upon themselves to organize a massive demonstration at this Cindinati conference to shine some light on this gang of Two Thousand who wants to rule America.
We need some organizational help to make this happen. Can someone in Cincinnati help? Maybe the Hamilton County Democratic Party, maybe Cincinnati Kossacks, others, volunteers?
I am on business travel and will be out of the country for most of the time between now and until one week prior to the conference. I have called for a mass protest, and there is no way that I can organize it. I am in desperate need of help.
To make my point that ALEC is on our mnds, a very small sample of the ALEC Diaries is here, here, here and here. I may have foundi more ALEC diaries, but the search engine on DK4 simply does not work for me, no matter what I try. If you do a tag search on ALEC, I am sure you will find many examples, with very good research.
So I have rabble roused for a mass demonstration which I will attend, but will not be physically able to help organize. And there is a lot of work to organize a good demonstration with a lot of details down to things like getting demonstration or parade permits at the appropriate times, to helping find temporary low cost housing for out of town visitors, to communications, Facebook and Twitter postings and hundreds of other things. This is not an event where months of planning on our part has taken place. I think I first called for the demonstration last week, and a luminary like Bob Sloan and his wife have booked a room in Cincinnati to attend the demonstrations. Bob did an outstanding diary on ALEC just a few days ago here, and another one here.
For specifics on the conference, here is the ALEC Conference Registration page
If we want to demonstrate at their hotel, it is:
Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza
35 West Fifth Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Bottom line here. I am in a jam to the extent that I cannot help in any meaningful way to organize this protest. I need someone in our community or in the greater Democratic/Progressive/Liberal community to step forward and help the this ball rolling downhill by April 28 and 29, 2011. Please message me at Daily Kos or comment below. All help is appreciated, and none will be refused.
It is time to shine a Kleig Light on the radical Republcan right, and it's stealth legislative network. They want to implement their radical agenda to destroy public education, health care for all Americans, particularly those on Medicaid and Medicare. The want to foster continued dependence of fossil fuels, champion nuclear power, end environmental protection, end legislation intended to make our workplaces safe, create a slave labor population in privatized prisons, bust our unions, end business regulation, end financial system regulation, end child labor laws, kill MSHA and return America to a land where 1500 coal miners die each year, from the currently unacceptably high number of 50 miners each year, end taxation for business and wealthy people, and shift the entire tax burden on you and I. The end result of this completion of the Reagan Revolution is to destroy the working and middle classes, and to establish themselves at American Royalty. Radical Republican Royalty. That is their goal. Their behavior is the evidence. Their rhetoric is totally meaningless.
Posting this in KasichWatch, because John Kasich and his merry band of Radical Republican Raiders are using the ALEC agenda in lockstep. In fact, I would not be surprised if John Kasich and John Boehner are the keynote speakerss at this Republican extravaganda.