Investigating Power
…corporate exodus from ALEC has continued with Google, Facebook, Yelp, Yahoo, Overstock.com, SAP America, AOL, and Emerson Electric all announcing that they had left ALEC or would soon leave ALEC….
…It is not known whether Facebook still funds SPN. With Facebook’s departure, over 82 corporations have publicly left ALEC since the Center for Media and Democracy launched ALECexposed in 2011….
…ALEC. Edelman had been brought in to help ALEC in 2012, following the launch of CMD’s ALEC Exposed project, and after the death of teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida. ALEC…
…considered “model legislation” related to the ALEC resolutions on CO2. ALEC isn’t stopping there, though. More is on its way at the ALEC annual meeting in Dallas in late July….
…of 2010, it was a top agenda item at the December 2010 ALEC meeting. According to a 2010 email from ALEC to Wisconsin legislators that CMD obtained, ALEC referred to…
…pushing the agenda favored by Koch. This includes millions of dollars, cumulatively, provided to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society and some state-based think…
…of the ALEC “model” bills, but both fracking bans and federal oversight have been a focus at recent ALEC conferences. For example, at the August 2013 ALEC conference in Chicago,…
…was researching ALEC, its staff told her ALEC doesn’t track its legislation. ALEC and its staff took to twitter in late 2013 to repeat the claim, publicly, that “we don’t…
…explicitly expressed in August 2013 by CEA’s Whatley at the ALEC conference in Chicago. According to ALEC’s own meeting minutes, obtained by CMD, Whatley called on ALEC legislators to publish…
…cash from corporations like Peabody to attend ALEC conferences. Peabody, a long time member of ALEC, is a frequent presenter at ALEC events and sponsor of several items of ALEC…
