ALEC Exposed

Through ALEC, Global Corporations Are Scheming to Rewrite YOUR Rights and Boost THEIR Revenue Through the corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council, global corporations and state politicians vote behind closed doors to try to rewrite state laws that govern your rights. These so-called "model bills" reach into almost every area of American life and often directly benefit huge corporations. In ALEC's own words, corporations have "a VOICE and a VOTE" on specific changes to the law that are then proposed in your state. DO YOU? Numerous resources to help us expose ALEC are provided below. We have also created links to detailed discussions of key issues, which are available on the left.

Who Is Behind ALEC? What Is ALEC? Who Funds ALEC? ALEC Corporations Corporations That Have Cut Ties to ALEC ALEC Politicians Legislators Who Have Cut Ties to ALEC ALEC Non-Profits and Think Tanks ALEC State Chairs ALEC "Scholars" ALEC Boards & Task Forces ALEC's Koch Connection Essential ALEC Resources CMD Fact Sheets on Key Topics ALEC Press by Date and State CMD's PRWatch Articles on ALEC CMD's SourceWatch Resources on ALEC The Nation Special Edition on ALEC Common Cause Trove of ALEC Task Force Docs DBA Press ALEC Archive Voter's Legislative Transparency Project (VLTP) ProPublica Database of ALEC Corporations' Election Spending Abolish ALEC (Daily Kos blog) Hot Topics Lobbying and Ethics Complaints ALEC & NCSL Comparison Democracy & Voting Privatizing Education Repealing Labor Rights Health & Tobacco Limiting Environmental Protections Changing Civil & Criminal Law Immigration Corporate Prisons

Take Action! TELL YOUR LEGISLATOR TO CUT ALEC TIES! ALEC boasts on its website that over 2,000 state legislators are members of their organization. ALEC Exposed has identified nearly 1,000 state representatives who are believed to be active members of ALEC. We need YOUR help to identify all ALEC members. Click Here to Help! Breaking News "WANTED" poster mocked up from document from ALEC's spring meeting in Oklahoma City ALEC’s Most Wanted: Exposing a front group for fossil fuel interests (and other corporations) (Checks & Balances Project) ALEC's Latest "Transparency" Move: Asserting Immunity From Freedom of Information Laws (PRWatch) ALEC Assembles "Most Wanted" List, and Oklahomans Say "ALEC Is Not OK" (PRWatch) Moffitt skips House session to attend conservative conference (The Asheville Citizen-Times) "Business Climate" Rankings Bogus Says New Report (PRWatch) ALEC Covering Tracks in Advance of Oklahoma Meeting (PRWatch) Featured The Politics of Wage Suppression: Inside ALEC's Legislative Campaign Against Low-Paid Workers National Employment Law Project ALEC Tax and Budget Proposals Would Slash Public Services and Jeopardize Economic Growth Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Profiting from Public Dollars: How ALEC and Its Members Promote Privatization of Government Services and Assets In the Public Interest Selling Snake Oil to the States: The American Legislative Exchange Council’s Flawed Prescriptions for Prosperity Good Jobs First, The Iowa Policy Project (Follow-Up) ALEC's ‘Tax Myths Debunked’ Misses the Mark Iowa Fiscal Partnership New ALEC Task Force Documents, Dec. 2012 Buying Influence New Report on ALEC "Scholarships," Who Gets Them and Who Pays

State Reports Arizona (PFAW/CC) (supplemental) (CMD/PFAW/CC/Progress Now) NEW 2013 (CMD/PFAW/CC/Progress Now/AWF) Florida (Progress Florida/ PFAW/CMD/Florida Watch Action/CC) Iowa (NEW!) (Progress Iowa/ CMD/PFAW/CC/Progress Now) Maine (Maine's Majority Education Fund) Michigan (Progress Michigan/ Michigan Citizen Action/CMD/CC/PFAW) Minnesota (Common Cause) Missouri (Progress Missouri) Nevada (NEW!) (Progress Now Nevada) New Hampshire (Granite State Progress) (supplemental on "Right to Work for Less") New Jersey (PFAW/CMD/CC/Progress Now) Ohio (CMD/Progress Ohio/PFAW/CC) Pennsylvania (Keystone Progress) Texas (Progress TX/CMD) Utah (PFAW/CC/Alliance for a Better Utah/CMD) Virginia (Progress VA) Wisconsin (Center for Media and Democracy) State Bill Comparisons Join the Conversation!

ALEC Rock Not the old "School House Rock" Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Mark Fiore shows how a bill becomes a law ALEC style.

ALEC's "Model Bills" Worker and Consumer Rights bills here. Analysis here. Tort Reform and Injured Americans bills here. Analysis here. Privatizing Schools and Higher Education bills here. Analysis here. Health, Big Pharma, and Social Welfare bills here. Analysis here. Environment, Energy, and Agriculture bills here. Analysis here. Democracy, Voting, and Federal Relations bills here. Analysis here. Tax & Budget bills here. Analysis here. Guns, Prisons, Crime and Immigration bills here. Analysis here.

Bill Moyers' Exposé on ALEC The United States of ALEC PBS's respected "Moyers & Company" show delves into the hidden world of ALEC.

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Worker and Consumer Rights · Tort Reform and Injured Americans · Privatizing Schools and Higher Ed Policy · Health, Pharmaceuticals and Safety Net Programs · Environment, Energy and Agriculture · Democracy, Voter Rights and Federal Power · Taxes and Budgets · Guns, Prisons, Crime and Immigration