Investigating Power
…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…
Just one day after Google announced it was cutting ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), fellow tech giant Facebook announced that they are “not likely” to renew their…
…firm represents many of the world’s most polluting companies, and numerous front groups for polluters, including the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). It has so far refused to say whether…
…the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). This reporter has obtained a number of internal documents from ALEC that provide a rare glimpse into how this corporate-funded lobbying group is attempting…
