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Related: About this forumVA Speaker And Ex-ALEC Chair Berates Woman
ProgressVA recently released a report on the legislative influence of the corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) which began hemorrhaging donors in the wake of a campaign raising awareness of its efforts to disenfranchise voters and enact Florida-style stand your ground laws. The group noted that the Commonwealth of Virginia has spent $232,000 of taxpayers dollars over the past decade to send legislators to ALEC conferences and meetings.
Virginia House Speaker William Howell (R), himself a national board member of ALEC and its 2009 national chairman, took issue with the report and called it inaccurate.
In an exchange caught on camera, Howell berates the groups executive director Anna Scholl, mocking the groups website and her. Howell criticizes the Washington Posts article about the groups as full of half-truths or un-truths.
In a failed attempt to back up his accusation, Howell notes that while the Commonwealth paid about $230,000 on ALEC-related expenses, it spent even more on travel for the same and other legislators to attend conferences by the bipartisan National Conference of State Legislators.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/04/12/463774/va-speaker-and-ex-alec-chair-berates-woman-im-not-speaking-in-little-enough-words-for-you-to-understand/
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VA Speaker And Ex-ALEC Chair Berates Woman (Original Post)
Galraedia
Apr 2012
OP
From the Republican perspective, Scholl has at least three strikes against her
RufusTFirefly
Apr 2012
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freshwest
(53,661 posts)1. Yes, that money paid for highjinks in the VA legislature.
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)2. She gave it right back to that caveman...
Good for her.
pacalo
(24,721 posts)3. Yes, she did!
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)4. From the Republican perspective, Scholl has at least three strikes against her
1. She's progressive
2. She's smart
3. And she's a "girl" (sic)
I'm surprised Howell's head didn't explode right then and there. Those three things are enough to rock his 19th century world.