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The American Legislative Exchange Council's new leader sees Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker as a model for conservative reform.

"I think a lot of states should be looking at Gov. Walker and the Assembly in Madison in terms of looking at how you can make that change and how you can curtail the growth of whether it’s the unions or any other faction that is stemming growth and competition,” incoming ALEC CEO Lisa B. Nelson told Watchdog.org, the conservative news group that includes the Wisconsin Reporter.

Nelson was an aide to Newt Gingrich, serving for three years as his public liaison when Gingrich was speaker of the House in the 1990s. She also has worked on ALEC model legislation on behalf of AOL and Time-Warner and Visa, she said in this interview with Washington Post blogger Niraj Chokshi. She's also a former executive director of GOPAC, a group dedicated to recruiting and promoting new Republican leaders.