Even Shannon Jones isn't this dumb!

Look what a Florida state legislator did a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.commonblog.com/2012/01/31/alec-exposed-for-24-hours/

For the past year, the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has, to its dismay, gotten a lot of publicity and blowback for the fact that it was basically writing legislation like Ohio's union-busting SB 5 and voter suppression bill HB 194, and handing it to its member legislators (aka "stooges") who would introduce this "model legislation" into their legislatures, often verbatim. That's why suddenly we saw so much identical ultra-right-wing, corporate-friendly legislation being introduced across the country: it all had ALEC's fingerprints on it.

ALEC hasn't been too happy about the increased attention it's gotten since it functioned in secrecy for decades. But with idiot stooges like Florida Rep. Rachel Burgin, who needs critics?

All ALEC model resolutions contain a boilerplate paragraph, describing ALEC’s adherence to free market principles and limited government. When legislators introduce one of ALEC’s bills, they normally remove this paragraph. ... Rep. Burgin didn’t do that. Instead she introduced a bill that was the same as the model word-for-word, forgetting even to remove the paragraph naming ALEC and describing its principles.

Oops. Nice work, Rachel.