Investigating Power
…in promoting ALEC’s extremist agenda. ALEC and FreedomWorks, a right-wing group instrumental in the Tea Party movement, also awarded Saine the “Legislator of the Week” award in March. FreedomWorks praised…
By Jamie Corey, Senior Researcher with Documented The Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has hired Grant Kidwell, a former analyst from two major Koch-backed groups–Americans for Prosperity and the…
…the petition email read, “UPS must stop funding ALEC’s climate change denial, anti-environmental advocacy and right-wing extremist agenda.” The petition was sent as ALEC members, including UPS, meet in Nashville…
…deepen an internal schism in ALEC between dirty-energy corporations, such as Koch Industries, Devon Energy, and Peabody Coal, and more forward-looking corporate backers. ALEC has lost members like Google, Facebook,…
…promoted by the Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council in the 1980’s and was implemented into law for the first time by Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, a big ALEC booster. At…
…ALEC, global corporations and state politicians vote behind closed doors to try to rewrite state laws that protect workers, consumers, and the environment. ALEC companies may want to spend less…
Every week the Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), together with the right-wing FreedomWorks, announces a “Legislator of the Week.” This week, as the fate of Roy Moore, the GOP…
…American Legislative Exchange Council Then there is the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the Koch’s pay-to-play group of lobbyists and legislators. Unlike AFP, ALEC does say it is for the…
…also among the nation’s biggest violators of the health, safety, consumer, worker, and environmental protection laws ALEC seeks to dismantle. Just 38 of ALEC’s for-profit corporate members have paid out…
…Trump International Hotel next year. The member-based group, known as ALEC, has much to celebrate. With a strategy of growing its ranks among state-level politicians to affect local change, ALEC…
