Gary Cross is a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC’s state legislators skirt ethics laws and trade away votes to corporate special interests. In exchange, legislators like Gary Cross enjoy lavish all-expense-paid trips and thousands in campaign cash. Right here in Missouri politicians like Gary Cross are bought and paid for by ALEC, a secretive organizations that uses special-interest money to wine and dine state legislators and get laws passed without input from the public. ALEC politicians like Gary Cross outsource their duties to corporate special interests to write then laws and then vote behind closed doors on which bills to pass.
- The ALEC States & Nation Policy Summit was held at the luxurious Westin Kierland Resort and Spa. Rooms at the resort average more than $300 a night. But Cross didn’t personally pay for the conference. Instead, he used the funds given to him by corporate donors and special interests for his campaign.
- Cross has supported ALEC model legislation on multiple occasions, notably cosponsoring the “Parent Trigger Act” which would have allowed a single vote to create a charter school or send public tax dollars to private institutions through vouchers. He’s also used his campaign funds to pay his ALEC dues and even received a likely illegal $1,000 campaign contribution from ALEC, who claim to be a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
When you head to the polls this November, we urge you to take a stand against ALEC politicians like Gary Cross, who think getting elected to Missouri’s state government is a way to get paid vacations at the expense of the people who elected them to office.
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