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He would not specify when Google would formally disconnect from ALEC.
Microsoft and Google had been members of the group's communications and
technology task force, according to CNET.
Other major corporations including Coca-Cola, General Motors, Bank of
America, and Proctor & Gamble have severed ties with ALEC in recent
years. National Journal reported that more than 50 liberal groups had urged Google in a letter sent earlier this month to disavow the group.
ALEC, founded in the 1970s, gained renewed national attention after
Republicans won major victories in state governments in 2010 and the
group's signature pieces of model legislation were introduced in
statehouses nationwide. It was described
by Bob Edgar, the president of the liberal advocacy group Common Cause,
as "proof positive of the depth and scope of the corporate reach into
our democratic processes."
One of its recent initiatives, according to the Huffington Post, has been model legislation that would require a "balanced" teaching of climate science.
