Is there a Progressive version of ALEC?

[Pryderi]

A site that creates amd promotes progressive legislation?

[Scuba]

1. And a) if not, why not, and b) if yes, why does no one know about it? !!!!

[Pryderi]

2. I'm hoping someone knows.

[highplainsdem]

3. There is Progressive States Network, but it's very small compared to ALEC.

Link to the Wikipedia article about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_States_Network

This is the PSN site

http://www.progressivestates.org/

and the current board of directors:

http://www.progressivestates.org/psn/board

PSN is only several years old. I hope they'll someday become a counterweight to ALEC.

But the driving force behind ALEC is corporate interest. Corporations provide most of ALEC's funding. They make the lavish conferences possible and provide the "scholarships" that are traveling expenses for state legislators. And in turn they get to help write legislation that benefits them. Those same corporations help fund campaigns and astroturf groups that keep their favorite legislators in office and make it appear there's more grassroots support for the legislation than actually exists.

Progressive States Network offers idealism, expertise, and a chance to network.

If you go through their press releases, starting with the oldest

http://www.progressivestates.org/press/releases?page=7

that will give you some idea of their history (they were called PLAN originally - Progressive Legislative Action Network).

Their site has a lot of information and interesting links, but I don't know if it has anything like ALEC's model legislation. Much of what's there is about harmful legislation from conservatives. And of course progressives have to be aware of that, to try to stop it.

[Scuba]

4. Thank you for posting. It's up to people like us to make PLAN as well known as ALEC....

...and for much better reasons.

[Pryderi]

5. THANKS!!

[highplainsdem]

6. You're welcome, Pryderi!