Sep 9, 2012

Former Montana State ALEC Chair, GOP Leader Jailed

From Montana Cowgirl on Daily Kos…read her blog here…

“The former House Republican Minority Whip of the Montana Legislature and Montana state chair of ALEC, Dennis Himmelberger, is in jail…

“…Himmelberger is the former Montana state chair of ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council.  Readers here know ALEC well. It’s the out-of-state corporate-funded organization that brings global corporations and state politicians together behind closed doors to try to rewrite state laws.  ALEC was found to be behind several of the worst bills brought forward by Montana Republicans in the last legislative session.  Himmelberger is pictured here at the Montana Cowgirl blog where this diary is cross-posted.”

Read the full article at the Billings Gazette here…

By Bob Sloan ALEC, Consumer exploitation, exploitation and manipulation, Legislators with ALEC Ties, The Cabal 2 Comments Tags: ALEC, ALEC alumni, American Legislative Exchange Council, Center for Media and Democracy, Disenfranchisement, transparency