Investigating Power
To: Interested Reporters From: Nick Surgey, Center for Media and Democracy, 608-229-6807, [email protected] Brendan Fischer, CMD General Counsel, 608-260-9713, [email protected] Re: Extensive Koch Brothers Links to ALEC Anti-Union Legislation in…
…ALEC have received financial support from the Koch funding network in addition to corporations. ALEC is a pay-to-play operation whose board includes K12, a for-profit “virtual” school company that has…
…efforts. In 2014, ExxonMobil sponsored ALEC’s Annual Meeting and disclosed $61,500 in funding to ALEC, in addition to sitting on ALEC’s corporate board. At ALEC’s ExxonMobil-sponsored Annual Meeting that year,…
…before seizing and running off with the phone of Greenpeace researcher Connor Gibson, who was interviewing him–has served on the Board of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which pushed…
…close interlocking ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). CMD first documented this anti-worker Koch-ALEC-SPN agenda in a 2013 report. Today, CMD obtained a rally flyer with the SPN…
…of ALEC, and the Koch brothers have underwritten ALEC through foundations they control and organizations they fund. The proposal “would make it much harder for prosecutors to criminally prosecute companies…
…and Heartland participate in ALEC, and have provided state legislators with climate denial briefings at recent ALEC conferences. ALEC is another climate denial group facing dwindling support. As CMD recently…
…with ALEC through sponsoring a workshop, ALEC’s brochure lists CLC as one of the few entities that funded its meeting for lobbyists and legislators to advance the ALEC legislative agenda….
…help make ALEC’s national agenda look local and help ALEC’s legislative agenda in the states. Also speaking at ALEC is the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) President, Arthur C. Brooks. AEI…
…an ALEC meeting where corporate lobbyists vote as equals with state legislators). CMD launched ALECexposed.org in 2011, revealing the entire ALEC legislative agenda and has continued to report on the…
