…project founded by Mark Meckler and Eric O’Keefe and promoted by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC is a pay-to-play operation where legislators and corporate lobbyists meet behind closed…
Wisconsin Assembly Passes Bill Designed to Chill Campus Protests
…Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) show. Both Horlacher and Kapenga have ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a pay-to-play operation where legislators and corporate lobbyists meet behind…
Private Prison Giant GEO Group Gives to Super PAC Backing Susan Collins
…ALEC, a corporate bill mill that brings together lobbyists and state lawmakers to create model legislation. ALEC organized a confidential “border tour” last August, according to documents obtained by CMD….
Centrist Third Way, Funded by Corporate Interests, Attacks Sanders in Iowa
…to do fundraising consulting. Several corporate donors to Third Way are or have been members of the GOP-aligned American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporate bill mill that links lobbyists…
Ohio’s Right-Wing Buckeye Institute Goes National
…the policy, communications, and litigation arm of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and give the corporate lobby front group’s extreme agenda a sheen of academic legitimacy and state-based support….
DonorsTrust Pumped $142 Million into Right-Wing Causes in 2018
…Council (ALEC), a pay-to-play operation where state legislators and corporate lobbyists meet behind closed doors to adopt model legislation on issues that affect people’s lives, such as the environment, energy…
ALEC’s Washington State Chair Engaged in Domestic Terrorism, Report Concludes
…American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has kept Shea in a leadership role as its Washington State Chair despite major controversies. In November 2018, Shea found himself in hot water with…
ALEC Influence in Ohio Greases Skids for Anti-Protest Bill
…33, is modeled after an ALEC proposal, and its corporate backers are big contributors to the Republican party and legislators in Ohio. ALEC is the corporate bill mill where state…
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Makes Unscheduled Appearance at ALEC Conference in Arizona to Promote Costly School Voucher Program
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos held a roundtable on “education freedom” with Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (R) yesterday at the ALEC States and Nation Policy Summit to promote her controversial…
Gerrymandering, Elections, School Privatization, and More on the Agenda as ALEC meets in Arizona
…The Trump administration has “the potential to be an ALEC administration. It is full of the people and ideas we have advanced since 1973…. Now is our time. And ALEC…