…District Attorney’s office has “conducted a continuous campaign of harassment and intimidation against individuals and organizations in retaliation for their association with Scott Walker and their support for his policies,…
How SPN “Think Tanks” Will Spin ALEC’s 2016 Agenda
…appear to be independent yet actually are operating from the same national playbook. SPN plays a key role in driving the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) agenda, particularly by providing…
Richard Berman Misleads on Restaurant Opposition to Higher Wages
…Minutes in 2007 and exposed more recently in the New York Times. A former restaurant industry executive, Berman also created a corporate-funded “think tank” the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) run…
ALEC Conference Funding Dominated by Big Polluters
…front groups in bold *Asterisks indicate membership on ALEC’s corporate board of directors President’s Level – $100,000 Reynolds American Inc (RAI–tobacco company) Chair’s Level – $50,000 American Electric Power (AEP)…
ALEC Admits School Vouchers Are for Kids in Suburbia
…the U.S. Senate. The American Federation for Children (AFC), chaired by Amway billionaire Betsy DeVos, estimates that vouchers and voucher-like tax-credit schemes currently divert $1.5 billion of public money to…
Four Ways ALEC Tried to Ruin Your State This Year
In a year with unprecedented rightwing dominance in state legislative chambers, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has continued to wreak havoc in states across the country–despite an ongoing exodus…
Jeb Bush Addressed Secret Coal Industry Retreat
…looking to Jeb Bush as a potential ally. “It would be our hope that he would touch upon his general energy policies,” McGlothlin told the Guardian’s Suzanne Goldenberg. Bush has…
Kochs, Corps, and Monsanto Trade Group Have Bankrolled Group Attacking Dr. Oz
…and trade group funders as ExxonMobil, Chevron, the American Petroleum Institute, Syngenta, Bayer CropScience, CropLife America, Procter and Gamble, Pfizer, the Personal Care Products Council, Coca-Cola, Dr. Pepper/Snapple, and McDonald’s,…
More Corporations Flee as ALEC Rolls Out Its Legislative Agenda
Only nine funders of the American Legislative Exchange Council‘s annual winter meeting in Washington, DC, are listed on ALEC’s conference brochure this year. The small number comes at a time…
Facebook Plans to Cut Ties With ALEC
Just one day after Google announced it was cutting ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), fellow tech giant Facebook announced that they are “not likely” to renew their…