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'''Paul M. Weyrich '''[http://www.freecongress.org/about/pweyrich.asp] was an early a founder of the [[Heritage Foundation]] with Ed Fuelner and "Chairman and CEO of with the [[Free Congress Research and Education Foundation]]. He served as President financial support of the Free Congress foundation from 1977 to 2002. From 1989 to 1996rightwing millionaire Joseph Coors, Mr. Weyrich served as President of the [[Kreible Institute]] of the [[Free Congress Foundation]], responsible for training democracy movements in the states comprising the Former Soviet EmpireCoors beer fortune.

"He is More than a founder and past director of year after the [[American Legislative Exchange Council]]was founded in Illinois in 1973, Weyrich took over its operations and moved the group to Washington, DC, co-housing it with the Heritage Foundation, which he founded. He was not a National Chairman founder of [[Coalitions for America]]ALEC, but played a key role in its operations in its first two decades.

He was also the founder and president of the [[Free Congress Research and Education Foundation]] from 1977 to 2002 and continued to help lead that organization until his death. For a brief period, from 1989 to 1996, Weyrich led the [[Kreible Institute]] of the [[Free Congress Foundation]], which focused on former Eastern bloc nations. Weyrich was also a National Chairman of [[Coalitions for America]].  ==Early ALEC SupporterWeyrich Famously Urged Making It Harder for Americans to Vote=={{#ev:youtube|8GBAsFwPglw|230|right|Paul Weyrich -- "I don't want everybody to vote" (Goo Goo)|frame}}One of ALEC’s founders was right- wing political apparatchik Paul Weyrich, a Racine native who famously said: “I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people – they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.” Weyrich made this statement while he was helping to steer ALEC and other rightwing groups in the early 1980s.  This spirit is reflected in ALEC’s push for legislation to make it harder for Americans to vote through strict “voter IDID” laws,” which purports purport to address the statistically non-insignificant existent (but greatly hyped) issue of voter fraud and which has the very real effect of making it harder for students, people of color, and the elderly to cast ballots. University of Wisconsin professor Kenneth Mayer recently testified that over more than 220,000 people in Wisconsin lack the specific kinds of identification now required to vote under the new Wisconsin law's version of that ALEC bill. <ref> [https://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/c/cd/ALEC_Exposed_in_Wisconsin.pdf ALEC Exposed in Wisconsin: The Hijacking of a State], [https://www.alecexposed.org ALEC Exposed], May 2012 </ref>

"A former reporter and radio news director, Mr. Weyrich is [was] a regular guest on daily radio and television talk shows. A sought-after writer, Mr. Weyrich has published policy reports and journals on a variety of conservative issues and has contributed editorials to ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', and ''The Wall Street Journal''.  "He has been [was] described by ''The Economist'' as 'one of the conservative movement's more vigorous thinkers.' Voted three years in a row from 1981 - 1983 by readers of ''Conservative Digest'' as one of the top three 'most popular conservatives in America not in Congress,' Mr. Weyrich has been was named by ''Regardie's Magazine'' as 'one of the 100 most powerful Washingtonians.' "

*President, Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, 1977 - present2008.

*Member, Board of Directors, [[The Freedom and Democracy Institute of Russia]], 1997 - present2008. *Executive Committee, [[Council for National Policy]], through 2008. *Treasurer, [[Council for National Policy]], 1981 - 1992 (currently on the Executive Committee of the CNP).

*FounderDirector, [[American Legislative Exchange Council]], 1973; Director1975 - 1978, and advisor 1975 - 19781995.