Investigating Power
…Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) “model” bill. Although voter fraud is virtually nonexistent in the state, experts say that some 300,000 people, including minorities, the elderly, and the low-income lack the…
…of the DeVos family, which has underwritten parts of the SPN-ALEC agenda. Coordinated, National Effort Advances ALEC Agenda ALEC and SPN are, for the most part, interconnected, which is little…
…earlier debated by ALEC at its December 2014 conference and is in line with ALEC’s long-term legislative agenda. At ALEC conferences and meetings, rhetoric against the EPA–and in particular the…
…siphoned out of public schools by 2020 and applied to for-profit and religious schools. With vouchers gaining momentum nationwide, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which is meeting in San…
…member and former ALEC “legislator of the year” Leah Vukmir (R), is waiting in the wings while ALEC’s allies do a full PR tour. (Vukmir is slated to become ALEC’s…
…rounds at groups like ACSH as well as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the State Policy Network (SPN) in search of third parties to help promote its product…
…raise the wages. Strategy to Undercut Wages Discussed at ALEC The lawsuit is part of a coordinated legislative, legal and PR strategy detailed by an AHLA lobbyist at a recent…
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) made headlines last week after Wisconsin Republicans introduced a virtually word-for-word copy of the ALEC “model” Right to Work Act, following on the heels…
…corporate exodus from ALEC has continued with Google, Facebook, Yelp, Yahoo, Overstock.com, SAP America, AOL, and Emerson Electric all announcing that they had left ALEC or would soon leave ALEC….
…It is not known whether Facebook still funds SPN. With Facebook’s departure, over 82 corporations have publicly left ALEC since the Center for Media and Democracy launched ALECexposed in 2011….
