…progressive policies like a higher minimum wage, LGBTQ protections, or parental leave. In response, corporate interests and groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) have increasingly been turning to…
Koch-Fueled Playbook against Working Families Exposed by CMD
…those ALEC rankings. Astonishingly, ALEC ranks Kansas 16th and puts West Virginia at 36. ALEC spent a lot of time in its report trying to defend Kansas. After all, it’s…
Reporters’ Guide on the Koch Right to Work Playbook
To: Interested Reporters From: Nick Surgey, Center for Media and Democracy, 608-229-6807, nick@prwatch.org Brendan Fischer, CMD General Counsel, 608-260-9713, brendan@prwatch.org Re: Extensive Koch Brothers Links to ALEC Anti-Union Legislation in…
“National School Choice Week” Fueled by Major Right-Wing Funders and Corporate Lobby Groups
…ALEC have received financial support from the Koch funding network in addition to corporations. ALEC is a pay-to-play operation whose board includes K12, a for-profit “virtual” school company that has…
CMD Submits Evidence of ExxonMobil Funding ALEC’s Climate Change Denial to California Attorney General
…efforts. In 2014, ExxonMobil sponsored ALEC’s Annual Meeting and disclosed $61,500 in funding to ALEC, in addition to sitting on ALEC’s corporate board. At ALEC’s ExxonMobil-sponsored Annual Meeting that year,…
How Charles Koch Backed the John Birch Society at the Height of Its Attacks on Martin Luther King
…before seizing and running off with the phone of Greenpeace researcher Connor Gibson, who was interviewing him–has served on the Board of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which pushed…
Right-Wing Network Puts Friedrichs v. California Teachers in Samuel Alito’s Lap
…close interlocking ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). CMD first documented this anti-worker Koch-ALEC-SPN agenda in a 2013 report. Today, CMD obtained a rally flyer with the SPN…
Koch Self-Interest in Criminal Justice Reform, Exposed
…of ALEC, and the Koch brothers have underwritten ALEC through foundations they control and organizations they fund. The proposal “would make it much harder for prosecutors to criminally prosecute companies…
The Market Has Spoken: Funders Flee “Free-Market” Climate Denial Group
…and Heartland participate in ALEC, and have provided state legislators with climate denial briefings at recent ALEC conferences. ALEC is another climate denial group facing dwindling support. As CMD recently…
Koch-Funded Special Interest Groups and Utilities Bankrolling ALEC Meeting
…with ALEC through sponsoring a workshop, ALEC’s brochure lists CLC as one of the few entities that funded its meeting for lobbyists and legislators to advance the ALEC legislative agenda….