Verizon has decided to quit the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) following a public outcry over the corporate lobby group’s hosting of David Horowitz as a prominent speaker at its…
Verizon Dumps ALEC, Denounces Speaker as Racist
NC Decision to Bar Climate Science from Planning Will Prove Costly
…on Hold! (or, a Rising Tide Lifts No Votes) By Jonathan Rosenblum In a backward leap of anti-Copernican proportions, North Carolina’s state legislature recently passed what may be the nation’s…
Initiative 1634 Misleads on Grocery Taxes, Preempts Soda Taxes and Tramples Local Control
…are being promoted by the public health community to counter the rise in obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. But they are facing sophisticated opposition campaigns spearheaded by the deep-pocketed American…
Rep. Taylor and Center for Media and Democracy Rebuff Legal Threat from ALEC Speaker
…The Council on American-Islamic Relations lists the David Horowitz Freedom Center in its “inner core” of Islamophobic groups; People for the American Way criticizes Horowitz for the claim that “both…
Heavy-Handed Industry Maneuver to Crush Soda and Grocery Taxes Is on Oregon Ballot
…from August 2017 through August 3, 2018, according to the Oregon Secretary of State. Opponents of the Oregon measure include the American Heart Association, Oregon Nurses Association, Farmers Market Fund,…
Broad Coalition Calls on Corporations to Drop Funding for ALEC Over Horowitz Speeches
…the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to cut ties with the corporate bill mill. CMD published an August 13 report from Wisconsin Representative Chris Taylor that ALEC had given hatemonger…
ALEC Launches Effort to Protect Gerrymandering from Judges
By Josefa Velasquez A conservative, industry-backed organization is pushing a proposal to ensure that issues involving redistricting are decided by state legislatures rather than by the judiciary. The American Legislative…
“Nonpartisan” ALEC Will Celebrate 45th Gala with GOP Stars and Lobbyists at Trump Hotel
Invitations have gone out for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)’s 45th Gala on September 26, 2018 at the Trump International Hotel, just blocks from the White House in Washington,…
Trump Attacks on First Amendment Are Un-American
…free press is crucial to a free and open society. Trump is the most un-American of American presidents in history, not just because he has alienated America’s closest and longest…
Wisconsin GOP Just Nominated ALEC’s “Iron Lady” to Take on Tammy Baldwin
…Vukmir was a terrible candidate to take on Baldwin. ALEC’s “Iron Lady” Advances Although the Kochs’ Americans for Prosperity formally stayed out of the race, not endorsing either Vukmir or…
