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| <h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/01/13024/national-school-choice-week-fueled-major-right-wing-funders-and-corporate-lobby "National School Choice Week" Fueled by Major Right-Wing Funders and Corporate Lobby Groups]</h3> | | <h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/03/14/alec-legislators-dominate-leadership-positions-in-republican-states/ ALEC Legislators Dominate Leadership Positions in Republican States]</h3> |
| [[Image:Charter_Schools_chalkboard-dollars270px.jpg|270|center]]With 32 governors proclaiming this week "School Choice Week," and more than 16,000 scheduled events listed on the promotional website, #NationalSchoolChoiceWeek has become a big deal, and not by accident. | | [[Image: ALEC-Panel-Annual-Meeting-2024-900x508.jpg |270 px|center]] For more than 50 years, the American Legislative Exchange Council has moved a right-wing and pro-corporate Republican agenda of legislation in states across the country — all while posing as a nonpartisan, tax-exempt charity. |
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| Launched five years ago by the Gleason Family Foundation—which spent more than $4.3 million on the project in 2014—the week has grown rapidly through the backing of advocacy groups and deep pockets of funders focused on promoting charters, vouchers, and tax credits that aid private schools, including religious and for-profit ventures.
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| | <h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/02/25/alec-pushes-state-anti-labor-agenda-for-2025/ ALEC Pushes State Anti-Labor Agenda for 2025]</h3> |
| | [[Image: IStock-1501973077-900x508.jpg |270 px|center]] The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporate bill-mill, has laid out its priorities for this year’s state legislative sessions. |
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| In federal and state budgets, "school choice" policies often divert or reduce Americans’ tax dollars available for traditional public schools that educate our most underserved students or for investment in sustainable and innovative community schools that are truly public. Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/01/13024/national-school-choice-week-fueled-major-right-wing-funders-and-corporate-lobby here].
| | Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/02/25/alec-pushes-state-anti-labor-agenda-for-2025/ here]. |
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| <h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/11/12982/alecs-rich-states-poor-states-paints-happy-face-failing-state-policies ALEC's "Rich States, Poor States" Paints a Happy Face on Failing State Policies]</h3> | | <h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/02/10/alec-publishes-its-own-project-2025-for-the-states/ ALEC Publishes Its Own Project 2025 — for the States]</h3> |
| [[Image:I_heart_ALEC_austerity270px.jpg|270|center]]Yesterday, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) rolled out another edition of its "Rich States, Poor States" publication. The publication annually slaps a fresh coat of paint on the flawed fiscal and economic austerity policies favored by the group and its corporate patrons. | | [[Image: 50yearsofharm-rally-900x508.jpg |270 px|center]] “Now, more than ever, is the time for states to lead.” This assertion by leaders of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) opens the organization’s Essential Policy Solutions playbook for 2025. |
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| It's going to take a lot of paint this year.
| | Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/02/10/alec-publishes-its-own-project-2025-for-the-states/ here]. |
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| | <h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/01/31/alec-member-strikes-a-blow-against-rule-requiring-union-labor-on-federal-construction-projects/ ALEC Member Strikes a Blow Against Rule Requiring Union Labor on Federal Construction Projects]</h3> |
| | [[Image: Grand-Coulee-Dam-workers-Library-of-Congress-900x508.jpg |270 px|center]] Contractors engaged in large federal construction projects can’t be required to enter collective bargaining agreements with building trade unions, a federal claims court ruled last week. |
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| The poster child for the ALEC anti-tax, low-wage policy agenda is Koch Industries' home state, Kansas, which has been plugged by Governor Sam Brownback as a "[http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/kansass-failed-experiment/389874/ real live experiment] in supply side economics. But Brownback's tax cuts have thrown the state into fiscal crisis, saddling the state with a projected budget deficit of $190 million for the next fiscal year, [http://www.kansasbudget.com/ no reserves], [http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/05/19/3660279/kansas-extra-session-tax-cuts-repeal/ slashed public services], and [http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article29761057.html lagging job growth]. Although wealthy taxpayers and businesses have reaped big benefits, it's an [http://www.thinkncfirst.org/research/kansass-tax-cut-disaster-explained-in-five-charts economic disaster] for working families. Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/11/12982/alecs-rich-states-poor-states-paints-happy-face-failing-state-policies here].
| | Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/01/31/alec-member-strikes-a-blow-against-rule-requiring-union-labor-on-federal-construction-projects/ here]. |
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| <h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/01/13021/ALEC_Exxon_climatedenial_california CMD Submits Evidence of ExxonMobil Funding ALEC’s Climate Change Denial to CA Attorney General]</h3>
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| [[Image:ExxonMobil-ALEC-logo270px.jpg|270|center]]he Center for Media and Democracy has submitted [http://www.prwatch.org/files/01-21-16_cmd_letter_to_ca_ag.pdf evidence] to California Attorney General Kamala Harris showing how ExxonMobil has promoted climate change denial through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). CMD believes this information is relevant to her office's [http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-exxon-global-warming-20160120-story.html investigation] into whether ExxonMobil deceived its shareholders and the public about the impact that burning fossil fuels has on climate change.
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| CMD has identified at least $1,730,200 in funding from ExxonMobil to ALEC between 1998 and 2014, based on publicly available disclosures, although the actual total is likely higher. CMD has documented Exxon funding for ALEC at least as early as 1981.
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| This funding makes ExxonMobil one of ALEC's biggest financial supporters as ALEC has promoted legislation, resolutions, presentations, and publications seeking to stop efforts to address climate change, and has indoctrinated thousands of state legislators with the idea that "a great deal of scientific uncertainty" surrounds the science of climate change and that carbon emissions "may even be beneficial." Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/01/13021/ALEC_Exxon_climatedenial_california here].
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