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The purpose of this page will be to compile Fark threads dealing with the dumpster fire that is the ALEC

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=WTF is ALEC?= This section is for basic background information about ALEC which does not necessarily have a Fark thread

=General ALECrap=

Constitutional Convention
=Known ALECrap=

Friendly ALECrap
=Possible ALECrap= This section will cover basically any state shenanigans discussed in a Fark thread since ALEC treats every state like their very own libertarian experiment

Chris Sevier
aka Mark Sevier, aka Chris Severe

Dianne Bentley
former First Lady of Alabama, don't put up with nothing from nobody

Roy Moore
former Chief Justice of the Alabama state Supreme Court

Stand Together
"non-profit wing of either Charles Koch's Foundation or his Institute that plans to focus on partnerships with private groups addressing social problems''
 * "Koch brothers' new group will take on poverty, educational quality", USA Today, January 29, 2016

state Rep. John Allen (R, AZ, 15th)
Arizona House Majority Leader

Leslie Rutledge
Arkansas Attorney General

Kevin Shenkman
Malibu lawyer

A Los Angeles Jury
in the court of Judge Percy Anderson, US District Judge, Central District of California

Single Payer Bill
''Healthy California Act (SB 562)

John Suthers
mayor, Colorado Springs; candidate to replace Comey as Director of the FBI

June Chu
Pierson College Dean, social psychologist

6th Congressional District Special Election
to fill seat of Tom Price who is now Secretary of Health and Human Services

Coalition for Georgia’s Future
501(c)4 non-profit that describes itself as "pro-business"
 * "On Nathan Deal’s behalf, new group praises women in business — even downloadable ones", Atlanta Journal Constitution, October 3, 2014

former Governor Terry Branstad (R IA)
US Ambassador to China; longest serving state governor in US history; will be replaced by Lt. Governor Kim Reynolds
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Governor Kim Reynolds (R IA)
Iowa's first woman governor; former Lt. Governor
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Chicago
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Kevin Graham
president, Chicago Fraternal Order of Police

State Solutions
501(c)4 affiliate of the Republican Governors Association
 * "RGA spending at least a million dollars on Rauner TV ads", March 30, 2017

Dubuque, Iowa
Interview at Dream Center; Rep. Rod Blum (R IA 1st) with Josh Scheinblum, Chief Investigative Reporter, KCRG-TV9, ABC affiliate

Kris Kobach
Secretary of State, Kansas; launched a crusade against "illegal voting," has power to prosecute "voting crime"

Duane Goossen
former Kansas Secretary of Administration

Kansas’s 4th District Special Election
incumbent Mike Pompeo, now Director of the CIA
 * Candidates
 * Kansas state GOP Treasurer Ron Estes
 * Democrat James Thompson
 * Libertarian Chris Rockhold

Kim Davis
Rowan County clerk

Tim Nolan
former judge; current member Campbell County School Board, district 5; Tea Party supporter; indicted sexual predator

Roger Villere
chairman, Louisiana GOP

Dr. Rebekah Gee
Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health

state Senator Bruce Tarr (R, MA, 1st EM)
state Senate Minority Leader

Aaron Foley
Detroit's first "chief storyteller"; former Blac Detroit magazine editor; author "How to Live In Detroit Without Being a Jackass"

Jennifer Carnahan
chair, Minnesota Republican Party

Governor Phil Bryant (R MS), et al

 * Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves (R MS)
 * Rep. Philip Gunn (R, MS, 56th) House Speaker
 * Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann

Timothy Anderson
created a religious nonprofit group to distribute heroin to "the sick, lost, blind, lame, deaf and dead members of God?s Kingdom"

A New Missouri
non-profit that will "advocate for and promote [Governor Greitens'] agenda" the group also will cover some of the governor’s travel expenses
 * "Greitens’ political nonprofits take center stage in Missouri; common for governors around US", St. Louis Public Radio, April 4, 2017

At-large Congressional District Special Election
to fill seat of Ryan Zinke, who is now Secretary of the Interior

Greg Gianforte
Republican candidate for Representative of Montana District 1 (at-large district)

Gold Butte National Monument
federal lands in Nevada near Bundy Ranch

NH 6th Carroll state House District
Special Election for seat vacated by Harold B. Parker (R) who resigned to join Governor Chris Sununu's administration
 * state House Rep.-elect Edith DesMarais (D, NH, Carroll6) defeated Republican Matthew Plache

Brian McDowell
former "The Apprentice" contestant, GOP candidate New Jersey General Assembly, district 1

Donald J. Trump, Jr.
possible candidate for governor

Public School 58
Maspeth, Queens, New York

NY state Assembly District 9
Special Election for seat was vacated by Joseph Saladino's (R) who was appointed town supervisor, Oyster Bay, New York
 * state Assembly-elect Christine Pellegrino (D, NY, 9) defeated Republican Thomas Gargiulo

state Rep. Tim Moore (R, NC, 111th)
speaker, North Carolina state House

state Senator Phil Berger R, NC, 26th)
president pro tempore, North Carolina state Senate

Republican Platform Caucus
group of OK state legislators who caucus for the Republican Party

state Rep Tess Teague (R, OK, 101st)
an adult who uses bunny-ear, and squeaky-voice Snapchat filters with her adult friends

Governor Tom Wolf (D PA)

 * requested "supplemental federal assistance" for help after a severe snow storm hit the state in March, 2017, effecting 9 counties, with 7.2 million in estimated damage

former Rep. Joe M. Haynes (D, TN, 20th)
retired 2012; needs better hobbies

state Senator Dr. Mark Green R, TN, 22nd)
retired Army flight surgeon; West Point grad; nominee, Army Secretary; insane religious zealot

Tom Mechler
chairman, Texas Republican Party

United Utah Party
politically centrist party made up of disaffected Republicans and Democrats
 * website

Kevin Stuckey
Seattle Police Officers' Guild

Bob Ferguson
Attorney General, Washington state; internationally ranked chess player

Chris Beam
president of Appalachian Power

Paula Jean Swearengin
environmental activist endorsed by Brand New Congress

Governor Scott Walker (R WI)


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