that's pretty amazing i just learned today presses from reading your piece that paul weyrich was one of the original founders of alec here's a clip of what paul weyrich had to say back during the reagan campaign in one thousand nine hundred eighty we don't have the we don't have this back in one hundred eighty when he was speaking to a group of republican legislators and church he basically said you know. why should we be trying to promote the idea of voting to our influence and our power in politics actually goes as the voting populace goes down and now here we are thirty one years later and after his statement and they are you know the party's model legislations is to cut the number of people who can vote to have it right where you poll we read some soul so. we can use a scoundrel we can use to go on to the air this conversation as well which is a prominent belly. policy member. it's really quite remarkable how is it that alec went under the radar all these years will i don't there's something wrong with mainstream media but. he did enjoy a little bit of there being or maybe didn't