If the corporations approve, that legislation then gets carried back to state legislatures – or even the US Congress – by the lawmakers in attendance, who submit it as new laws. (ALEC says that corporations do not vot… Bill to Criminalize Environmental Protests in Wisconsin Heads to the Assembly Floor, Court documents show beef checkoff sends millions to cattle lobby, North Carolina may have fairer congressional districts by 2020, Democrats Impeach Joe Biden, Fiddle as the Planet Burns, What the BLM Shake-Up Could Mean for Public Lands and Their Climate Impact, D.C. Digest: Sen. Jim Inhofe blasts Tinker housing contractor, Revealed: ALEC’s Health and Human Services Task Force Legislative Members. ALEC Exposed ALEC Board Member Reveals Kansas Partisan Gerrymandering Plan to Donors ALEC board member, Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle, pitches political donors on the need for a GOP supermajority to stack congressional districts for the next decade, while ALEC trains members on the art of gerrymandering. One notable exception was in November 2011, when former Florida State Representative Rachel Burgin (R) introduced legislation to call on the federal government to reduce its corporate tax rate. (Here's how.). Some legislators use their personal funds and are reimbursed by ALEC. Sam Brownback Threatens to Defund Judiciary, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule, Republicans Block Campaign Finance Reform. ALEC has given awards to: Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, George H.W. Audio. 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More than 60 corporations and foundations including Wendy’s, Kraft Foods, McDonald’s, Amazon.com, Coca-Cola, General Electric, Apple, Procter & Gamble, Walmart, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the medical insurance group Blue Cross and Blue Shield dropped support of ALEC in the ensuing weeks or let their memberships lapse. (ALEC legislators sometimes compare the organization to the National Conference of State Legislators (NCSL), yet the two organizations could not be more different. Some 400 state legislators have left its membership along with more than 60 corporate donors. Though thousands of ALEC-approved model bills have been publicly introduced across the country, ALEC’s role facilitating the language in the bills and the corporate vote for them is not well known. ALEC’s April 17, 2012 announcement that it was disbanding its Public Safety and Elections Task Force also ended its legislative efforts to expand voter ID requirements. Looking toward 2012, ALEC is peddling “Voter ID” laws to disenfranchise voters least likely to support their right-wing candidates. The Center obtained copies of the bills after one of the thousands of people with access shared them, and a whistleblower provided a copy to the Center.

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