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<blockquote data-quote="TechGrrl" data-source="post: 819883" data-attributes="member: 4932">The State GOP is now on a witch hunt to see all of his emails in his university account to attempt to show that he has done politics on university time.<a href="http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/118654904.html" target="_blank">http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/118654904.html</a>For Prof. Cronon&#039;s viewpoint, please check out his blog:<a href="http://scholarcitizen.williamcronon.net/" target="_blank">http://scholarcitizen.williamcronon.net/</a>His real sin was to point out that all of the laws being proposed across the states this year have eerie simularities, in no small part because they are &#039;model legislation&#039; written and deseminated by ALEC.But go read the professor&#039;s blog, and here&#039;s a quote to get you started:&quot;As a result, last Tuesday night, March 15, I launched my first-ever&nbsp; entry for a blog I had long been planning on the theme of “Scholar as&nbsp; Citizen,” about how thoughtful scholarship can contribute to better&nbsp; understandings of issues and debates in the public realm.In my first&nbsp; blog entry, I published a study guide exploring the question <a href="http://scholarcitizen.williamcronon.net/2011/03/15/alec/" target="_blank">“Who’s Really Behind Recent Republican Legislation in Wisconsin and Elsewhere?”</a>&nbsp; I by no means had all the answers to this question, but I thought I had&nbsp; found enough useful leads that it was worth sharing them to help others&nbsp; investigate the American Legislative Exchange Council further. So I&nbsp; posted the link for the blog on Facebook and Twitter, sat back, and&nbsp; hoped that viral communication would bring the blog to people who might&nbsp; find it useful.My little ALEC study guide succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.&nbsp;&nbsp; Within two days, the blog had received over half a million hits, had&nbsp; been read by tens of thousands of people, had been linked by newspapers&nbsp; all over the United States, and had been visited by people from more&nbsp; than two dozen foreign countries. Many readers expressed considerable&nbsp; interest in the activities of the American Legislative Exchange Council&nbsp; (ALEC), and said they were grateful for the guidance I had tried to&nbsp; provide for people wishing to learn more about it. (A smaller number of&nbsp; readers were much more hostile, and you can read their comments on the&nbsp; blog.)&quot;<a href="http://scholarcitizen.williamcronon.net/" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://scholarcitizen.williamcronon.net/" target="_blank"></a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="TechGrrl, post: 819883, member: 4932"] The State GOP is now on a witch hunt to see all of his emails in his university account to attempt to show that he has done politics on university time. [URL]http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/118654904.html[/URL] For Prof. Cronon's viewpoint, please check out his blog: [URL]http://scholarcitizen.williamcronon.net/[/URL] His real sin was to point out that all of the laws being proposed across the states this year have eerie simularities, in no small part because they are 'model legislation' written and deseminated by ALEC. But go read the professor's blog, and here's a quote to get you started: "As a result, last Tuesday night, March 15, I launched my first-ever entry for a blog I had long been planning on the theme of “Scholar as Citizen,” about how thoughtful scholarship can contribute to better understandings of issues and debates in the public realm. In my first blog entry, I published a study guide exploring the question [URL="http://scholarcitizen.williamcronon.net/2011/03/15/alec/"]“Who’s Really Behind Recent Republican Legislation in Wisconsin and Elsewhere?”[/URL] I by no means had all the answers to this question, but I thought I had found enough useful leads that it was worth sharing them to help others investigate the [B]American Legislative Exchange Council[/B] further. So I posted the link for the blog on Facebook and Twitter, sat back, and hoped that viral communication would bring the blog to people who might find it useful. My little ALEC study guide succeeded beyond my wildest dreams. Within two days, the blog had received over half a million hits, had been read by tens of thousands of people, had been linked by newspapers all over the United States, and had been visited by people from more than two dozen foreign countries. Many readers expressed considerable interest in the activities of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and said they were grateful for the guidance I had tried to provide for people wishing to learn more about it. (A smaller number of readers were much more hostile, and you can read their comments on the blog.)" [URL="http://scholarcitizen.williamcronon.net/"] [/URL] [/QUOTE]

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