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Press Release

ALEC Holds Tight Grip on Arizona Legislature

by PRW Staff — April 13, 2012 - 3:02pm
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations

    • April 12, 2012

    PRESS RELEASE FROM PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY

    Contact: Justin Greenberg or Miranda Blue at media@pfaw.org

    PHOENIX -- Legislators in Arizona continue to advance extremist legislation inspired by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and its out-of-state corporate backers, according to a new analysis by People For the American Way Foundation, Common Cause, the Center for Media and Democracy and Progress Now. This report shines a new light on the Arizona Legislature's unprecedented ties to the secretive organization, which recently drew nationwide fire for its role in implementing radical policies across the country like "Shoot First" laws and voter suppression laws, and anti-worker measures. ALEC's extreme agenda has recently led companies such as Pepsi, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Wendy's, KRAFT and Intuit to withdraw from the organization. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Monday also withdrew its support from ALEC.

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    Fox's Bill O'Reilly Defends ALEC Against Supposed "Fascism"

    by Will Dooling — April 13, 2012 - 2:55pm
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations

    • Last night on the O'Reilly Factor, pundit Bill O'Reilly weighed in on the national debate surrounding the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). In his "Impact Segment," O'Reilly defended ALEC and attacked the groups that are asking corporations to drop their ALEC membership.

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    Ticketmaster Hot and Bothered About ALEC

    by Rebekah Wilce — April 13, 2012 - 1:29pm
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations, Democracy, Politics

    • Association with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is becoming so toxic that even being listed on ALEC Exposed as a former supporter of the organization is rattling corporate cages. The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) has received a letter from the online ticket sales company Ticketmaster referring to the list of "ALEC Corporations" on our site Sourcewatch.org.

    Ticketmaster's letter does not directly deny any current or former involvement with ALEC, but "advises" CMD to "cease and desist from including Ticketmaster on your site," objecting to "the suggestion that Ticketmaster is somehow affiliated with ALEC" and threatening to sue CMD for libel and defamation.

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    Wisconsin-Koch Connection Back in the News, AFP Rally at State Capitol Tomorrow

    by Rebekah Wilce — April 13, 2012 - 1:15pm
  • Topics: State Policy Network, Corporations, Politics, Wisconsin Protests

    • As major corporate funders cut ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the call is raised for ALEC state legislators to drop ALEC as well, not only is Koch Industries maintaining its support, but the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity (AFP) has stepped in to defend ALEC in its time of need.

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    Mars and Arizona Public Service Dump ALEC

    by Rebekah Wilce — April 12, 2012 - 4:20pm
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations, Democracy, Politics

    • The seventh and eighth corporations to publicly state that they cut ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) are candy-maker Mars and the Arizona Public Service Company (APS), Arizona's largest electric utility. Mars had been an exhibitor at ALEC's 2011 annual meeting in New Orleans. Mars is the maker of Skittles, the snack Trayvon Martin had purchased before he was shot by George Zimmerman, whose arrest was delayed due to an NRA-backed gun law that became an ALEC "model" bill.

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    Fox's Michelle Malkin Goes to Bat for ALEC

    by Sara Jerving — April 12, 2012 - 8:56am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations

    • In the face of a successful relay race of corporations dropping their membership with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a Fox News contributor has called for her own campaign against these same corporations. Michelle Malkin asked her readers in the Washington Examiner to not "do business with progressive appeasers" and to boycott businesses that have decided to sever their relationship with ALEC.

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    Bloomberg Denounces NRA/ALEC "Shoot First" Laws

    by Brendan Fischer — April 12, 2012 - 8:14am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations, Democracy, Politics

    • New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg held a press conference Wednesday in Washington, DC to denounce the "Shoot First" law conceived by the National Rifle Association and promoted through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The law, pushed by its supporters under the name "Stand Your Ground," had been cited in Florida to potentially allow Trayvon Martin's killer to escape liability.

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    CMD Documents ALEC’s Contradictory Claims to Wisconsin Ethics Board

    by Brendan Fischer — April 12, 2012 - 7:10am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations, Democracy, Politics, Wisconsin Protests

    • On April 11, the Center for Media and Democracy filed a letter with the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board documenting how the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, provided the ethics board erroneous information about corporate-funded gifts to ALEC legislative members. This letter supplements the complaint CMD filed last month.

    Guest Contributor

    A Silver Bullet That Would End Secret Tax-Exempt Money In Elections

    by PRW Staff — April 11, 2012 - 2:24pm
  • Topics: Election 2012, Corporations, Democracy, Politics

    • A guest post by Greg Colvin, a partner at the firm Adler & Colvin, originally published at OurFuture.org.

    No doubt about it, large unlimited donations are flowing into SuperPACs from rich individuals and corporations aimed at influencing who is elected at all levels of government in 2012. With the SuperPACs and other forms of political committees regulated by the federal and state election agencies, or by the IRS under section 527, at least we know who the donors are.

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    Wendy's is the 6th Firm to Say It is No Longer a Member of ALEC

    by Sara Jerving — April 11, 2012 - 10:17am
  • Topics: ALEC Exposed, Corporations

    • Wendy's International, the parent company of Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburger, is the sixth corporation to say that it is no longer a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in the past week. Wendy's International sent an email to the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) this morning stating that the fast food chain had decided not to renew their membership at the end of 2011. CMD
    launched ALEC Exposed and named Wendy's as corporate member in July 2011.

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