ALEC’s Annual Meeting This Week Centers a Right-Wing Corporate Agenda

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Attendees will vote on model policies that target the environment, education, elections and fundamental human rights.

A view from inside the Colorado Convention Center is shown on January 23, 2009, in Denver, Colorado. The site will host the 51st annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council beginning July 24, 2024.Annual Meeting in Denver this week at the four-star Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center.

ALEC is also offering a workshop on the nonissue of noncitizens voting, called “States Must Do: Protecting the Vote.” The description of the training claims “the threat of non-citizen participation in our US elections is real.” “During the 2023 legislative session alone, anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion bills were introduced in various states 40 separate times, and all of them addressed a combination of the same four objectives: ending mandatory DEI training, preventing the use of diversity statements in job applications and promotion materials, prohibiting hiring practices designed to increase diversity, and/or ending state funding for DEI offices and personnel altogether,” as CMDto officially ban affirmative...

The first bill appears to be positive on the surface, but within the text it states that, “The Working Definition of Anti-Semitism adopted by the International Holocaust Alliance that contains contemporary examples of anti-semitism may also be used to identify anti-semitism.”

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