I recently wrote a brief defense of ALEC. A former colleague of mine over at the National Taxpayers Union has written a somewhat lengthier and more detailed defense of ALEC.
For example, did you know that ALEC’s main competition, the National Conference of State Legislators receives more than $10 million from taxpayers of the various states annually (this includes $137,000 from New Mexico taxpayers)? Worse, NCSL uses some of that money to front as an “objective, good-government organization” to lobby on behalf of bigger government.
[...] the only ones who use such a model. The National Taxpayers Union’s Andrew Moylan (via the Rio Grande Foundation): ALEC’s opponents claim that its model of discussing, drafting, and distributing model [...]