Investigating Power
…groundwork for further efforts to undermine worker protections. There is no doubt that the American workforce is changing. America’s failed trade policies (enthusiastically backed by ALEC) have resulted in the…
…District Attorney’s office has “conducted a continuous campaign of harassment and intimidation against individuals and organizations in retaliation for their association with Scott Walker and their support for his policies,…
…appear to be independent yet actually are operating from the same national playbook. SPN plays a key role in driving the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) agenda, particularly by providing…
…Minutes in 2007 and exposed more recently in the New York Times. A former restaurant industry executive, Berman also created a corporate-funded “think tank” the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) run…
…front groups in bold *Asterisks indicate membership on ALEC’s corporate board of directors President’s Level – $100,000 Reynolds American Inc (RAI–tobacco company) Chair’s Level – $50,000 American Electric Power (AEP)…
…the U.S. Senate. The American Federation for Children (AFC), chaired by Amway billionaire Betsy DeVos, estimates that vouchers and voucher-like tax-credit schemes currently divert $1.5 billion of public money to…
In a year with unprecedented rightwing dominance in state legislative chambers, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has continued to wreak havoc in states across the country–despite an ongoing exodus…
…looking to Jeb Bush as a potential ally. “It would be our hope that he would touch upon his general energy policies,” McGlothlin told the Guardian’s Suzanne Goldenberg. Bush has…
…and trade group funders as ExxonMobil, Chevron, the American Petroleum Institute, Syngenta, Bayer CropScience, CropLife America, Procter and Gamble, Pfizer, the Personal Care Products Council, Coca-Cola, Dr. Pepper/Snapple, and McDonald’s,…
Only nine funders of the American Legislative Exchange Council‘s annual winter meeting in Washington, DC, are listed on ALEC’s conference brochure this year. The small number comes at a time…
