Common Cause is trumpeting a legal victory in Wisconsin, where a lawsuit has forced Republican legislators to turn over e-mails with the American Legislative Exchange Council corporate lobby. The legislators had shifted that sensitive correspondence with the legislation-influencing lobby to private e-mail to get around the state Freedom of Information Law.

Didn’t work. They’ll have to come clean about their collusion with the corporate power brokers like the Kochs who are using ALEC and willing state legislators to shape local laws to their advantage.

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News release on the jump. But bad news for you in Arkansas.

Legislative correspondence is exempt from the open records law. Hey, maybe the transparency king, Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Darr, will add this to his legislative agenda. You think?

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