[EL] “The Anti-ALEC alliance: Group at heart of anti-conservative crusade is shadowy organization funded by leftwing millionaires and ``billionaires”

[Joe La Rue]

Referring to the Washington Free Beacon article about the alliance trying
to dismantle ALEC, Rick wrote that "the right wants disclosure of funding
for issue advocacy." As you might imagine, I support ALEC and hate what's
happening to them. But I'm also opposed to disclosure for issue advocacy.
So I quickly clicked the link to find out which conservatives are pushing
for disclosure of issue advocacy donors. And, unless I'm missing it, the
article doesn't say that any are. Rather, the Free Beacon has reported that
secret money is funding the effort, with no call that it be disclosed. It's
simply reporting, which I think is fair for conservatives to do.

It's surprising, though, that *reformers* haven't demanded that the money
being given to ProgressNow and Democracy Alliance be disclosed. I would
expect reformers to make that demand, if they *really *are concerned about *
disclosure*, and not just disclosure of the funding of GOP and
conservative-leaning advocacy. But unless I've missed it, the usual
reformer groups are completely silent on this one.

Joe
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