FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 15, 2013

CONTACT: Brendan Fischer, brendan@prwatch.org

A two-year campaign by a coalition of public interest groups has pushed the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to release hundreds of pieces of "model" state legislation secretly developed and pushed into law by corporate interests. The coalition includes the Center for Media and Democracy, ColorOfChange, Common Cause, Greenpeace, People For the American Way, Progress Now, Voters Legislative Transparency Project, and a variety of labor organizations.

"If Wisconsin were not known as the Dairy State it could be known, and rightfully so, as the Sunshine State," the Wisconsin Supreme Court observed in 2010. "All branches of Wisconsin government have, over many years, kept a strong commitment to transparent government."

But just in time for Sunshine Week 2013, GOP leaders in the state are showing how they are failing that proud tradition.

Breaking: today, the Center for Media and Democracy and Arizona Working Families jointly issued a report titled "A Reporter's Guide to the Goldwater Institute: What Citizens, Policymakers, and Reporters Should Know." A link to that report is available for download below.