American Legislative Exchange Council in Atlanta

Posted on July 16th, 2009

I am currently in Atlanta enjoying the training and policy discussions being held at the ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) Annual meeting. The speakers include former Congressman and Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Honorable Newt Gingrich; Member of European Parliament, Mr. Daniel Hannan; Dr. Art Laffer; Mr. Stephen Moore; and the Honorable Zell Miller, former Georgia governor and U.S. Senator.

I had the opportunity to meet and speak with one of my personal heros, Dr. Arthur Laffer, who is in the picture above. You may recall a post I did that asked a flurry of questions that could help us determine “where we are now” in the structure of our state government and suggested that the “Laffer” and “Rahn” curves could provide a common ground to move forward to make improvements.

Part of the mission of ALEC is to advance the Jeffersonian principles of free markets, limited government, federalism, and individual liberty, through a nonpartisan public-private partnership of America’s state legislators, members of the private sector, the federal government, and general public.

I am glad that there is bipartisian representation of Arkansas here at the ALEC conference. I have spotted Rep. Robert Moore, who also has a dead ringer lookalike here. Also seen were Sen. Gilbert Baker, Rep. Dawn Creekmore, Rep. Karen Hopper, Rep. Debbie Hobbs, Rep. Les Carnine, Sen. Barbara Horne, Sen. Steve Farris, and Rep. Ed Garner.

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