ACCE - - Spawn Of ALEC - - To Push Righty Agendas At Local Level

Heads up, school boards, common councils and advocates of transparent, local control - - a new ALEC storm is headed your way.

Not content with getting state legislatures to move its far-right agenda in state capitols, the corporate legislation factory known as ALEC is launching a similar machine - - ACCE - - to push privatization, union-busting and other corporatist dreams at the local level, The Guardian reports:

The corporate lobbying network American Legislative Exchange Council, commonly known as Alec, is seeking to extend its brand of aggressive privatization and tax cuts to the local level, with the launch on Wednesday of a new offshoot focused on America’s cities and counties.

The new network, the American City County Exchange (ACCE), will hold its first public meeting in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday. It is timed to sit alongside Alec’s annual meeting at which the parent body will debate its usual menu of conservative priorities – pushing back government regulation, fighting moves to curb climate change, reducing trade union powers and cutting taxes.

A similar emphasis is evident in the first agenda set for the new offshoot, with the distinction that ACCE hopes to influence elected officials in city and county councils while Alec has its sights largely set on state legislatures. An early draft of the agenda for today’s meeting revealingly listed ACCE’s very first workshop under the simple title: “Privatization” – though in the final version the wording had been sanitized into: “Effective Tools for Promoting Limited Government”.

A later workshop scheduled for Thursday is called: “Releasing Local Governments from the Grip of Collective Bargaining”.

Wrong-Way Walker, enamored of ALEC's mission, moved ALEC players Phil Montgomery to the Chairmanship of the Public Service Commission from the Assembly, and the GOP continues to feature ALEC star, public records withholder and Wauwatosa State GOP Sen. Leah Vukmir.