Difference between revisions of "American Legislative Exchange Council"

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The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is an association of state legislators and corporations.

History

Notable members

State legislators

Corporations

• AES Corporation
• Amazon (cut ties)
• Amoco
• Amway
• AT&T
• Bank of America (cut ties)
• Bell Helicopter
• Boeing
• BP America (cut ties)
• Charter Communications
• Chevron
• Comcast
• DCI Group (associated with Michael Connell's companies)
• Dow Chemical
• Exxon
• Fidelity Investments
• GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut's private prison division)
• Google (cut ties)
• Koch Industries
• Microsoft (cut ties)
• Monsanto
• Northrop Grumman (cut ties)
• Pfizer
• Shell
• Time Warner Cable
• Union Pacific Corporation (cut ties)
• Verizon
• Wal-Mart (cut ties)
• Williams Companies

Trade groups

Law firms

• Greenberg Traurig

Non-profits

Conferences

Lobbying efforts

Political connections

Financiers

• Charles and David Koch

Lobbying allies

• US Chamber of Commerce
• Karl Rove
• Club for Growth

Officials and politicians

• Jack Kemp
• Tom DeLay
• Donald Rumsfeld
• John Boehner
• Katherine Harris
• Sonny Perdue - made governor of Georgia in the suspect 2002 Georgia election
• Tom Feeney
• Scott Walker
• Donald Trump administration (source)
  • Mike Pence
  • Scott Pruitt
  • Tom Price
  • Nikki Haley
  • Rick Perry
  • Mike Pompeo

References

External links

• Sourcewatch pages on ALEC
  • Main ALEC article
  • List of ALEC corporations
• Lowndes County GA old boy network and ALEC

Economic ideology

• The Atlantic, "McDonald's Can't Figure Out How Its Workers Survive on Minimum Wage", 2013/07/16
• Minyanville's Wall Street, "McDonald's Sample Budget Sheet Is Laughable, but Its Implications Are Not", 2013/07/27
• Institute for New Economic Thinking, "Meet the Economist Behind the One Percent’s Stealth Takeover of America" by Lynn Parramore, 2018/05/30
• CBS, "Minimum wage doesn't cover the rent anywhere in the U.S.", 2018/06/14
• Bloomberg, "Higher Minimum Wage Boosts Pay Without Reducing Jobs, Study Says", 2018/09/06

Prison abuses

• The Nation, "The Hidden History of ALEC and Prison Labor", 2011/08/01
• Corruption of prison guards (both public and private)
  • Miami New Times, "Cop Who Locked Darren Rainey in Scalding Shower Until He Died Keeps Having Sex on Duty", 2018/10/02

Net neutrality

• CNN, "4 bad things Internet companies can't do anymore -- if the FCC gets its way", 2015/02/05
• Ars Technica, "Comcast and other ISPs celebrate imminent death of net neutrality rules", 2017/04/26
• Huffington Post, "FCC Commissioner Tells ALEC To Help Squash Net Neutrality", 2017/05/08
• The Next Web, "When it comes to net neutrality, AT&T can’t be trusted", 2017/08/31
• Media Post, "ALEC Urges FCC To Block State Broadband Laws", 2017/11/13
• American Legislative Exchange Council, "ALEC Applauds FCC Efforts to Restoring Internet Freedom", 2017/11/21
• WIRED, "Here's How the End of Net Neutrality Will Change the Internet", 2017/11/22
• Wccftech, "Before Net Neutrality, Internet Providers Consistently Abused Their Powers (Brief Timeline)", 2017/11/23
• WIRED, "FCC Plan to Kill Net Neutrality Rules Could Hurt Students", 2017/12/12
• Open Secrets, "Koch nonprofit president’s anti-net neutrality campaign", 2017/12/13

Voter suppression

• Spurious voter fraud claims
  • The Atlantic, "Maine's GOP Chair Now Says He's Not Racist Because He Plays Basketball with a Black Guy", 2012/11/15
• Voter ID requirements
  • NC Policy Watch, "North Carolinians highlight struggles getting photo IDs ahead of amendment vote", 2018/10/11
  • CBS, "North Dakota voter ID law upheld by Supreme Court could affect Senate race", 2018/10/12