Anti-Transparency Agenda Hailed Inside ALEC

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--A Special Report from Rep. Chris Taylor

I walked into my sixth ALEC conference over a week ago as one of two familiar Wisconsin myths was being told by the queen of the American Legislative Exchange Council, state Senator Leah Vukmir.

It wasn't the one Governor Walker continues to repeat. That's the one where newly elected tea party politicians who had all the power took away workers' rights and faced down thousands of school teachers, firefighters and high school kids (a/k/a "the union bosses," who were actually exercising the First Amendment rights our founding fathers had envisioned).