…worth exploring the origins of this idea. ALEC Fingerprints Meekhof’s bill, Senate Bill 1260, is strikingly similar in its language to a “model bill” promoted by the Koch-funded American Legislative…
Michigan GOP Defies Voters, Rams ALEC, Koch Priorities Through Lame-Duck Session
…an anti-union measure requiring public union recertification every two years is under consideration. All these topics have long been associated with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the Kochs’…
Truckers Run Over Railroads at ALEC
Occasionally there are major disputes among the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) corporations that set the corporate lobby front group’s legislative agenda. Thanks to ALEC, railroad members now pay to…
Dispatches from COP 24 Climate Change Summit in Poland
…of the world’s population, who are hardly emitting anything at all. If you look at the typical American, they’re going to be emitting something like 30 to 35 tons, 30…
ALEC Lost Membership Worth Over $7 Trillion in Market Cap
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a conservative nonprofit whose membership includes state legislators, corporations, and think tanks, is holding it’s 2018 States and Nation Policy Summit in Washington, DC…
AT&T Drops ALEC for Hosting Hate Speech
AT&T, the world’s largest telecom company with assets of $446 billion, is no longer a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). AT&T’s exit from the corporate bill mill…
Wisconsin GOP Hopes to Pull Rug Out from Under New Governor, Rig Key Supreme Court Election in Lame Duck Session
…election administration and of the state’s highest court has election officials, editorial boards and legal scholars up in arms. “Our objective — as Americans — should be to have large…
ALEC Embraces Trumpism, Climate Catastrophe, and School Privatization at Policy Summit
With the 2018 midterm elections now over, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) state legislators, lobbyists, and Koch operatives return to Washington, D.C. today for ALEC’s annual “policy summit” to promote…
How Tammy Baldwin, Target of $14 Million in Outside Spending, Sent the Koch Brothers and Their Minions Packing
…another $1.5 million in July, claiming that she failed to attend important committee meetings. Other ads by the Koch’s Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Partners groups attacked Baldwin over taxes…
Koch’s New Super PAC Loses Six of Nine Incumbents in Key Targeted House Races
Announced in September with great fanfare, the Koch’s new super PAC, Americans for Prosperity Action (AFP Action), achieved mixed results in the fifteen races it targeted in the 2018 midterm…