Investigating Power
…the State Policy Network (SPN) — a web of right-wing “think tanks” and tax-exempt organizations that often provides a veneer of academic legitimacy to ALEC bills. A 2017 investigation by…
…the sort of toxic, inflammatory claims ALEC has embraced” and leave ALEC. Following that campaign, Verizon, AT&T, and Cox Communications all quit ALEC. Comcast received ALEC’s State Chair of the…
…“studies” to back the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) agenda. Bradley Foundation grants to SPN “affiliate” and “associate” members stretch back decades and amount to approximately $133 million, according to…
…for signing the bill. ALEC’s Ties to Hate Groups ALEC’s ties to hate groups and extremists are on the rise. ALEC continues to seat Washington Rep. Matt Shea as a…
…American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and a number of other Republican governors. Alaska’s Senate Democrats strenuously objected to the unusual arrangement with AFP and called on Governor Dunleavy to cancel…
…and surveillance of left-wing activists, as revealed by The Guardian. Rep. Shea is the Washington state chair for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and has served on its Civil…
…2014 ALEC Annual Meeting; he “talked ideas and policy” at the 2015 ALEC States and Nation Policy Summit; he had a “terrific time with dedicated state legislators” at an ALEC…
…its leaders, ALEC’s first honoree of the month is Utah’s ALEC state chair: Representative Kim Coleman. ALEC gave the award on March 8, 2019, just ten days after KUTV’s investigative…
…groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the Council of State Governments (CSG) to put these policies into the hands of legislators. These model “critical infrastructure” anti-protest bills…
…funding climate denial groups. One of them is the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which produces cookie-cutter “model bills” that are rolled out in state legislatures all across America. ALEC’s…
