Following last week’s pieces by the Minnesota Independent on the open secret of the American Legislative Exchange Council–a national outfit that assists corporations in authoring “model legislation” by connecting the corporations to elected legislators–Beth Hawkins at Minnpost separately introduces us to the Minnesota non-profit education policy group Parents United, who over the weekend delivered a huge document dump of the model legislation created by corporations in ALEC. Hawkins and Parents United, both of whom focus on education issues, point out that all three of Minnesota’s Education Chairs are ALEC members. The Independent has also continued to bring light to ALEC’s connections to Minnesota, including an interview with Rep. Mary Kiffmeyer who confirms that 30 legislators from our state, all Republicans, are members of ALEC.