Pro-Business Advocacy - NYTimes.com Your July 12 editorial "Partnership Disguised as Charity," about the American Legislative Exchange Council, was completely one-sided. While arcane, the Internal Revenue Service rules are clear as to what constitutes lobbying, and under these definitions ALEC does not engage in any form of lobbying. Second, Marcus Owens, the lawyer bringing the I.R.S. complaint against ALEC, is certainly within his rights to trade on his credentials as a former I.R.S. official to gain credibility for his arguments. But The Times should have addressed his representation of groups that have been attacking ALEC and other pro-business organizations for more than a year. The editorial also did not mention the group on whose behalf Mr. Owens filed his I.R.S. complaint: Clergy Voice, a group of liberal Ohio ministers with a history of attacking Republicans and supporters of free-market, limited-government policies like the ones espoused by ALEC and its legislative and corporate members. Unfortunately, this is the treatment that ALEC and many other free-market, pro-business organizations have come to expect from your newspaper. ALAN P. DYE Legal Counsel, American Legislative Exchange Council Washington, July 16, 2012