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Coke and Pepsi drop membership from right-wing group
Through the corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), global corporations and state politicians vote behind closed doors to try to rewrite state laws that govern your rights. Participating legislators, overwhelmingly conservative Republicans, then bring those proposals home and introduce them in statehouses across the land as their own brilliant ideas and important public policy innovations—without disclosing that corporations crafted and voted on the bills. ALEC then provides the funding to push this legislation through. Legislation like the NRA's "stand your ground" (kill at will) law that George Zimmerman is using as a defense for the murder of Trevon Martin, a 17 year old who was walking home from the store with Skittles and and Arizona Ice Tea.
Coke and Pepsi both cut ties from the American Legislative Exchange Council - or ALEC. ALEC is responsible for pushing "Stand Your Ground" laws across the country as well as voter suppression measures. Van Jones talks with Ed Schultz about ALEC's agenda.
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► ALEC Exposed: The Koch Connection
Hundreds of ALEC’s model bills and resolutions bear traces of Koch DNA: raw ideas that were once at the fringes but that have been carved into “mainstream” policy through the wealth and will of Charles and David Koch. Of all the Kochs’ investments in right-wing organizations, ALEC provides some of the best returns: it gives the Kochs a way to make their brand of free-market fundamentalism legally binding.
www.thenation.com/article/161973/koch-connection
This article is part of a Nation series exposing the American Legislative Exchange Council, in collaboration with the Center For Media and Democracy.
► Procter and gamble leaves ALEC
Another major company has left the organization behind Stand your Ground laws. Could ALEC be in hot water with the IRS? Using our tax dollars to lobby with tax exempt status? Robert Greenwald, President of Brave New Films, sounds off on the major ALEC news.
WATCH: video.msnbc.msn.com/the-ed-show/47151575
► Flurry of Voter ID laws tied to conservative group ALEC
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EN2008 14 months ago | reply
► Lawmaker gets belligerent defending ALEC
Candy company Mars is the latest corporation to abandon the right-wing agenda group ALEC. Some ALEC-associated lawmakers are feeling the heat. Director of Progress VA Anna Scholl tells Ed Schultz about her confrontation with the Virginia Speaker of the House over his party's ties to ALEC.
video.msnbc.msn.com/the-ed-show/47047042
EN2008 13 months ago | reply
► Conservative group ALEC retreats
Conservative group ALEC backs off legislation dealing with social issues, but it still has its hooks in legislation all around the country. The executive director of Color of Change, Rashad Robinson, joins Ed Schultz to discuss the small victory, and what else needs to be done to stop ALEC’s influence.
video.msnbc.msn.com/the-ed-show/47080698
EN2008 13 months ago | reply
► Dem lawmaker leaves ALEC
State Representative Ted Vick of South Carolina, has decided to leave ALEC after eight years of membership. He says the group has gone too far to the right. Ed Schultz talks with him about his decision.
video.msnbc.msn.com/the-ed-show/47166672
EN2008 11 months ago | reply
Topping ALEC's agenda are lowering corporate and capital gains taxes; rolling back environmental regulations, such as limits on carbon emissions; limiting collective bargaining by unions; and capping damages from civil lawsuits, sometimes called tort reform.
www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57464438/who-is-alec/