Rep. Andre Cushing “had a terrific time at the ALEC conference in New Orleans”

The man who would love to be the next Speaker of the Maine House, Rep. Andre Cushing (R-Hampden), “had a terrific time at the ALEC conference in New Orleans”:

ALEC is the American Legislative Exchange Council, a far right group that drafts model legislation which it then provides to like-minded legislators.

There have been three stories here that have documented ALEC bills in Maine:

In April, ALEC inspired “Parental Trigger” bill introduced by Amy Volk;

In July, an example of a model bill from ALEC becoming Maine law;

And also in July, Brian Hubbell presented this group of ten pieces of ALEC model education legislation paired with bills in Maine’s 125th Legislature.