Investigating Power
…adopt model legislation that weakens environmental protections, advances anti-union measures, reduces funding for health care, promotes private prisons, and weakens state regulation of corporations. The group previously promoted “Stand Your…
…a donor crisis and member exodus when its promotion of “Stand Your Ground” legislation was tied to the death of the unarmed Black teenager Trayvon Martin. He managed PR when…
…federal statute prohibiting lawmakers from working on bills primarily for furthering their financial interests,” Sludge reported. Manchin, the most conservative Democrat in the Senate, has used the evenly split chamber…
…and denounced by GOP Arizona election officials. But that hasn’t stopped ALEC’s Fann from touting it as the “gold standard” and Republican politicians from trying to force similar audits in…
…least 120 corporations have severed their ties with ALEC in the last decade over the front group’s backing of controversial “Stand Your Ground” and voter ID laws, ties to extremists,…
…Drug Stores, NCTA – The Internet & Television Association, Novartis, Oracle, Peabody Energy, Pfizer, PhRMA, Sanofi, Salt River Project, State Farm, Sunovion, UPS, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Vistra Energy….
…its “Public Safety and Elections” task force after scores of major corporations started dropping their membership due to its pursuit of “Stand Your Ground” and Voter ID model legislation. But…
…by the Koch-funded Stand Together Chamber of Commerce, was $57 million in 2019. The infrastructure plan’s latest price tag is now $1.7 trillion, with Biden having cut out $500 billion…
…of which ended their memberships—over its role in promoting voter ID and “stand-your-ground” laws. But over the last two years, ALEC quietly got right back in the game. In 2019,…
…has been shown to be part of the cross-country push for voter suppression laws. Among the piles of toxic legislation that ALEC has produced are the lynching-friendly, so-called “Stand Your…
