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In a special report on ALEC, Bill Moyers summarized it as " an organization hiding in plain sight, yet one of the most influential and powerful in American politics.

" " Politicians and lobbyists at the core of this clever enterprise figured out how to pull it off in an organized, camouflaged way -- covering their tracks while they put one over on an unsuspecting public.

" " They were smart and understood something very important: that they might more easily get what they wanted from state capitals than from Washington, DC.

So they started putting their money in places like Raleigh, North Carolina ; Nashville, Tennessee ; Phoenix, Arizona ; and Madison, Wisconsin.