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<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/10/22/alecs-corporate-sponsors-top-nations-lawbreaker-list/ ALEC's Corporate Sponsors Top Nation's Lawbreaker List]</h3>
<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/12/06/credo-delivers-petition-ups-demanding-drop-alec/ Credo Delivers Petition to UPS Demanding that It Drop ALEC]</h3>
[[Image:ALEC_magnified350x175px.jpg|270 px|center]]The [https://www.ALECexposed.org American Legislative Exchange Council] (ALEC) has earned a reputation as a leading corporate influence group in recent years, with corporate lobbyists and legislators voting as equals in secret on scores of corporate bills to deregulate everything from the power and telecom industries to drug prices and health care.
[[Image:Turn-up-heat-UPS-270px.jpg|270 px|center]]Credo Action delivered a [https://act.credoaction.com/sign/UPS-ALEC petition] to the United Parcel Service (UPS) with 84,453 signatures asking the company to dump the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The text of the petition email read, "UPS must stop funding ALEC's climate change denial, anti-environmental advocacy and right-wing extremist agenda."


Well, it's no wonder. New research by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) shows that the pay-to-play lobby group’s biggest [https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Corporations corporate funders] are also among the nation's biggest violators of the health, safety, consumer, worker, and environmental protection laws ALEC seeks to dismantle.  
The petition was sent as ALEC members, including UPS, meet in Nashville for the group’s annual States and Nation Policy Summit.


Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/10/22/alecs-corporate-sponsors-top-nations-lawbreaker-list/ here].
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/12/06/credo-delivers-petition-ups-demanding-drop-alec/ here].
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<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/11/16/alec-may-want-reconsider-legislator-week-award/ ALEC May Want to Reconsider This "Legislator of the Week" Award]</h3>
<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/12/07/alec-hires-former-koch-staffer-lead-energy-task-force/ ALEC Hires Former Koch Staffer to Lead Its Energy Task Force]</h3>
[[Image:Brian_Greene-270px.jpg|270 px|center|frame|<center>Utah Rep. Brian Greene</center>]]Every week the Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), together with the right-wing [https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/FreedomWorks FreedomWorks], announces a "Legislator of the Week."
[[Image:Koch-industries-building-270px.jpg|270 px|center]]The Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has hired Grant Kidwell, a former analyst from two major Koch-backed groups -- Americans for Prosperity and the Charles Koch Institute -- to lead its Energy, Environment and Agriculture (EEA) task force, a position that has been left vacant since July.


This week, as the fate of Roy Moore, the GOP Senate candidate accused of dating and/or molesting teenagers while serving as an Alabama District Attorney hangs in the balance, ALEC decided to choose a legislator who has had trouble defining rape.
Funded by numerous fossil-fuel companies, ALEC and its EEA task force has a long history of passing "model bills" undermining environmental protections and opposing policies to combat climate change. The task force is made up of numerous corporate lobbyists and their trade groups that stand to benefit from measures weakening environmental protections.


Rep. Brian Greene (R-UT) is happy to introduce ALEC-Koch cookie-cutter bills into the Utah state legislature: "I have used their model policies on issues such as civil asset forfeiture reform and occupational licensing reform. As a result, I have been a leader in my state on both of these issues," [https://www.alec.org/article/restoring-the-balance-of-power/ boasted Greene].
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/12/07/alec-hires-former-koch-staffer-lead-energy-task-force/ here].
 
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/11/16/alec-may-want-reconsider-legislator-week-award/ here].
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<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/11/02/koch-troops-queasy-about-killing-state-and-local-tax-deduction-to-fund-tax-breaks-for-the-rich/ Koch Troops Queasy About Killing State and Local Tax Deduction to Fund Tax Breaks for the Rich]</h3>
<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/12/08/alec-gives-top-award-to-legislator-jailed-for-trying-to-sneak-loaded-gun-on-a-plane/ ALEC Gives Top Award to Legislator Jailed for Trying to Sneak Loaded Gun on a Plane]</h3>
[[Image:KochBrothersMoney-BraveNewFilms270px.jpg|270 px|center]]The Koch brothers and their network of billionaire political spenders have made their marching orders to Republicans in Congress clear this year—kill the Affordable Care Act and pass sweeping new tax breaks for corporations and the top 1% or don’t come looking to us to bankroll your 2018 campaigns.
[[Image:CO-rep-Lori-Saine-ALEC-award270px.jpg|270 px|center]]Colorado State Representative Lori Saine (R-63) arrived a little later than expected to this week’s American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) States & Nation Policy Summit in Nashville, but she had a great excuse.
 
But in order to execute those orders, lawmakers may have to pay a steep political price by eliminating health benefits and tax breaks that benefit millions of middle income voters as well as state and local governments.


The Trump tax plan is already taking a pounding as a gift to the super rich and to [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/09/28/9-ways-trumps-tax-plan-is-a-gift-to-the-rich-including-himself/?utm_term=.e8915dd8f7d9 Trump himself]. The elimination of a popular tax deduction throws salt into the wound.  
Saine was arrested Wednesday at the Denver International Airport for trying to bring a loaded semi-automatic handgun through security.


Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/11/02/koch-troops-queasy-about-killing-state-and-local-tax-deduction-to-fund-tax-breaks-for-the-rich/ here].
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/12/08/alec-gives-top-award-to-legislator-jailed-for-trying-to-sneak-loaded-gun-on-a-plane/ here].
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ALEC News

Credo Delivers Petition to UPS Demanding that It Drop ALEC

Credo Action delivered a petition to the United Parcel Service (UPS) with 84,453 signatures asking the company to dump the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The text of the petition email read, "UPS must stop funding ALEC's climate change denial, anti-environmental advocacy and right-wing extremist agenda."

The petition was sent as ALEC members, including UPS, meet in Nashville for the group’s annual States and Nation Policy Summit.

Read the rest of this item here.

ALEC Hires Former Koch Staffer to Lead Its Energy Task Force

The Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has hired Grant Kidwell, a former analyst from two major Koch-backed groups -- Americans for Prosperity and the Charles Koch Institute -- to lead its Energy, Environment and Agriculture (EEA) task force, a position that has been left vacant since July.

Funded by numerous fossil-fuel companies, ALEC and its EEA task force has a long history of passing "model bills" undermining environmental protections and opposing policies to combat climate change. The task force is made up of numerous corporate lobbyists and their trade groups that stand to benefit from measures weakening environmental protections.

Read the rest of this item here.

ALEC Gives Top Award to Legislator Jailed for Trying to Sneak Loaded Gun on a Plane

Colorado State Representative Lori Saine (R-63) arrived a little later than expected to this week’s American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) States & Nation Policy Summit in Nashville, but she had a great excuse.

Saine was arrested Wednesday at the Denver International Airport for trying to bring a loaded semi-automatic handgun through security.

Read the rest of this item here.

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