Five corporations recently announced they were no longer members of
the American Legislative Exchange Council after being confronted by
liberal and progressive groups.
John Deere, CVS Caremark, MillerCoors, HP, and Best Buy all said they
would stop funding the organization, which drafts model legislation for
state lawmakers and describes itself as “policy making program that
unites members of the public and private sectors in a dynamic
partnership.”
ALEC received little scrutiny until recently, when organizations like
ColorOfChange, Common Cause, People for the American Way, Progress Now,
the Center for Media and Democracy, CREDO Action and the Progressive
Change Campaign Committee began a campaign targeting the organization’s
corporate sponsors — who pay tens of thousands of dollars every year to
be members..................
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