The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is an organization comprised of industries and corporations that develops model legislation benefiting those industries and corporations. Lobbyists, special interest representatives and selected elected officials (who are invited members of ALEC) then review and vote to approve these proposed legislative actions in closed sessions. In many cases the legislation is proposed and introduced by the very “selected elected officials” who voted on them as members of ALEC. As a note, I have found little information on how and how much ALEC and/or its members financially support elected members of ALEC
Typical of the legislation created by ALEC are the ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws, voter ID, privatization of state prisons, lowering state clean energy regulations, privatizing education, and many others acts which benefit the industries within their membership. Some of ALEC donor members are Bayer, AT&T, Exxon-Mobile, State Farm, Anhauser-Busch, EBay, Fed Ex, Koch Industries, NRA, UPS, VISA.
Recently FACEBOOK and GOOGLE dropped their “membership” in ALEC. In the latter case GOOGLE’s chairman Eric Schmidt stated this about ALEC “We should not be aligned with such people. They’re just literally lying.”
ELECTED MEMBERS OF ALEC ARE DENOTED IN THE DOLLAR BILL BRIGADE DATA BASES.
WHO DOES YOUR REPRESENTATIVE REPRESENT???
THE FUTURE BEGINS TODAY.
gil eisner 9/29/14
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