Investigating Power
…model bills known as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and all three have been praised by the Kochs’ astroturf group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) for passing legislation on the…
…American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and its sister organization, the State Policy Network (SPN). DonorsTrust gave $422,000 to ALEC in 2017, up from $315,000 in 2016. ALEC is a pay-to-play…
…ALEC would sponsor legislation to keep the identity of (c)(3) and (c)(4) donors secret. ALEC, long funded by Koch Industries, would protect the ability of the Koch brothers to give…
Since 2000, corporate members of ALEC piled up almost $150 million in fines, penalties, and court settlements in cases involving racial and age discrimination and harassment. ALEC is the American…
…in the task force of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) that pushed “model bills” in the states to advance the privatization of prisons, and bills that lengthened time served…
…other ALEC firms including Nationwide. The misnamed “Asbestos Transparency Act,” is an ALEC effort to run out the clock on dying asbestos victims, denying their families some small justice in…
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the right-wing corporate bill mill, gave its “National Legislator of the Year” award to state Senator Sharon Hewitt of Louisiana. Senator Hewitt, a former…
…passed a verbatim American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) “right to work” law in 2015 after a huge push by the Koch’s Americans for Prosperity group, Beightol cheered on the policy,…
…Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) staff shortly after the Supreme Court’s June 2018 Janus vs. AFSCME decision, which held that unions could no longer require individuals in a bargaining unit who…
…Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) from his tenure as an Iowa state senator from 1997 to 2003. Will ALEC Now Strip Rep. Matt Shea of His State Chair? With GOP leadership…
