research was essentially the middle man between the corporate money and whatever they were doing to arrange for them in congress. a national center for public policy research. put a pin in that name for just a second. today one of the most significant developments in the how this count makes our laws department was that the ginormous company procter & gamble became the third company to drop out of alec. alec is a corporate funded group that promotes conservative legislation at the state level. basically, corporations join alec, alec then writes model legislation to serve the bottom line of those corporations. alec then spoon-feeds that organization to mostly republican state legislators across the country and those legislators turn it into law. corporate legislators get to pay for the results. they get to shield the snults in order to achieve some policy goals. aits perfect setup. it was a perfect setup until