Apr 11, 2013
From an article published by Nick Surgey at PRWatch: “ALEC Who?” ALEC Has an Identity Crisis“ The American Legislative Exchange Council is trying to change their image and in accomplishing that they would rather toss away the acronym “ALEC” – they’ve been known by and operating under for forty years now – than change their activities. [...]
Jan 24, 2013
Walden Asset Management spearheads a letter-writing campaign by shareowners urging corporations to review their memberships in the controversial organizations. Tim Smith of Walden Management was instrumental in getting Bank of America to quit ALEC. SocialFunds.com — Following the US Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in January, 2010, the years-long campaign by investors to pressure corporations [...]
Jan 3, 2013
We’ll just let the picture tell the story of how Florida’s Stand Your Ground law became ALEC’s Castle Doctrine Law. A version of one or the other law is in force in , which is the law of the land in 46 states * Here from August 12, 2005… * ref: http://cga.ct.gov/2012/rpt/2012-R-0172.htm
Nov 7, 2012
Last summer, a cousin who is a stockbroker, sent me a link from a group called Social Funds. (http://www.socialfunds.com/news/article.cgi/3592.html As I’ve followed the corporate defections from ALEC and Heartland, Walden Management kept coming up in the conversation. I’ve not found a great deal about them that is not in the Social Funds article linked to [...]
Oct 18, 2012
Despite posting this to NCAJ on their Facebook page, there has been no response from anyone at NCAJ. memo to self: research NCAJ and see if they are what they claim to be. updates: NCAJ endorsed candidates Marilyn Avila and Jamie Boles confirmed as members of ALEC “The North Carolina Advocates For Justice was [...]
Aug 3, 2012
At FRONTLINE’s request, Roman analyzed the pool of 43,500 homicides by race in states with Stand Your Ground laws* and those without them. Because he wanted to control for multiple variables — the races of the victim and the shooter, whether they were strangers, whether they involved a firearm and whether the murders were in [...]
Jul 22, 2012
From Nieman Watchdog by Bruce Kushnick As the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) continues to bleed corporate, foundation and legislative members the “we don’t lobby” conservative lobbyist group out of DC continues to pursue their agenda undauntedly. AT&T has been under increased pressure from activist and Occupy groups for months to dump ALEC following the Trayvon [...]
Jul 20, 2012
From PRWatch’s Lisa Graves Madison, WI — Three months after the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) issued a PR statement that it was eliminating its Public Safety and Elections Task Force, which was previously led by the National Rifle Association (NRA), the NRA announced that it would still be hosting its regular annual shooting event at ALEC’s [...]
Jul 13, 2012
Pharmacy benefits manager Express-Scripts told the Center for Media and Democracy today that it has ended its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), making it the twenty-sixth business to dump ALEC in recent months. Express-Scripts’ head of corporate communications David Whitrap confirmed to CMD that the corporation has dropped its ALEC membership but [...]
Jul 10, 2012
Five more companies, including Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), the No. 1 computer maker, have left the controversial American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) since the Feb. 26 killing of Trayvon Martin, 17, in Sanford, Fla. ALEC is a Washington, D.C.-based group that lobbies for laws in state legislatures, including the “stand your ground” law. George Zimmerman, [...]
