American Legislative Exchange Council

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

Notable members

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

Law firms

• Greenberg Traurig

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

External links

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

Founding members

• Paul Weyrich background
  • Infamous speech in 2008 where he says "I don't want everybody to vote"

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

Climate change

• The Independent, "Have scientists really admitted climate change sceptics are right?", 2017/09/19

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
  • American Center for Voting Rights (ACVR) - phony GOP front group supported by Bob Ney
    • BradBlog coverage of the story
      • ...
  • ACORN "voter fraud" in 2008
    • BradBlog coverage of the story
      • ...
  • The Atlantic, "Maine's GOP Chair Now Says He's Not Racist Because He Plays Basketball with a Black Guy", 2012/11/15
• Effort to destroy ACORN
  • Child prostitution allegations
    • BradBlog coverage of the story
      • ...
• Voter ID requirements
  • The Atlantic, "How Voter ID Laws Discriminate", 2017/02/18
  • 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
• Registration purges
  • ABC, "Dramatic increase in voters purged from voter rolls between 2014 and 2016: Report", 2018/07/24
• Huffington Post, "GOP Senator Says Voter Suppression Is A ‘Great Idea’", 2018/11/16

Police abuses

• Eric Garner
  • ...
• Sandra Bland
  • ...
• Botham Jean
  • ...
• Left-wing activists
  • Huffington Post, "Portland Cops Knew The Fascists Had A Weapons Cache. They Kept Silent And Attacked Protesters", 2018/10/16

Other curiosities

• Democratic Party relationship with the Koch brothers
  • Support for the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC)
    • AMERICAblog, "Koch Industries gave funding to the DLC and served on its Executive Council", 2010/08/25
    • Sam Smith, "How the Koch brothers helped dismantle the Democratic Party", 2015/04/14
    • Salon, "Clintonism screwed the Democrats: How Bill, Hillary and the Democratic Leadership Council gutted progressivism", 2016/04/30
  • ...
• Smear campaign against Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • Claim that she supported the age of consent being 12 years old
    • "Sex Bias in the U.S. Code", 1977/04 (archived copy)
    • Eugene Volokh, "Justice Ginsburg's Past Endorsement of Lowering the Age of Consent to 12", 2005/09/21: "As it happens, I have just today found another version of S. 1400 § 1633 (excerpted in 13 Crim. Law Reporter 3011, Apr. 4, 1973), which did set the age of consent at twelve. This must be the version to which the Ginsburg report referred."