…help make ALEC’s national agenda look local and help ALEC’s legislative agenda in the states. Also speaking at ALEC is the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) President, Arthur C. Brooks. AEI…
Koch Group Dumps Half Million Dollars in Florida Anti-Solar Campaign
…an ALEC meeting where corporate lobbyists vote as equals with state legislators). CMD launched ALECexposed.org in 2011, revealing the entire ALEC legislative agenda and has continued to report on the…
GOP Creates Perverse Online Voter Registration, Making It Harder for People to Vote
…Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) “model” bill. Although voter fraud is virtually nonexistent in the state, experts say that some 300,000 people, including minorities, the elderly, and the low-income lack the…
How SPN “Think Tanks” Will Spin ALEC’s 2016 Agenda
…of the DeVos family, which has underwritten parts of the SPN-ALEC agenda. Coordinated, National Effort Advances ALEC Agenda ALEC and SPN are, for the most part, interconnected, which is little…
ALEC Conference Funding Dominated by Big Polluters
…earlier debated by ALEC at its December 2014 conference and is in line with ALEC’s long-term legislative agenda. At ALEC conferences and meetings, rhetoric against the EPA–and in particular the…
ALEC Admits School Vouchers Are for Kids in Suburbia
…siphoned out of public schools by 2020 and applied to for-profit and religious schools. With vouchers gaining momentum nationwide, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which is meeting in San…
Four Ways ALEC Tried to Ruin Your State This Year
…member and former ALEC “legislator of the year” Leah Vukmir (R), is waiting in the wings while ALEC’s allies do a full PR tour. (Vukmir is slated to become ALEC’s…
Kochs, Corps, and Monsanto Trade Group Have Bankrolled Group Attacking Dr. Oz
…rounds at groups like ACSH as well as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the State Policy Network (SPN) in search of third parties to help promote its product…
Hotel Industry Spins Wage Hikes as Extreme while CEOs Rake in Millions
…raise the wages. Strategy to Undercut Wages Discussed at ALEC The lawsuit is part of a coordinated legislative, legal and PR strategy detailed by an AHLA lobbyist at a recent…
“Death by a Thousand Cuts” and ALEC’s Local Strategy for Attacking Unions
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) made headlines last week after Wisconsin Republicans introduced a virtually word-for-word copy of the ALEC “model” Right to Work Act, following on the heels…