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ALEC's Corporate Sponsors Top Nation's Lawbreaker List

The 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.

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 corporate funders are also among the nation's biggest violators of the health, safety, consumer, worker, and environmental protection laws ALEC seeks to dismantle. Read the rest of this item here.

ALEC May Want to Reconsider This "Legislator of the Week" Award

Every week the Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), together with the right-wing FreedomWorks, announces a "Legislator of the Week."

This week, as the fate of Roy Moore hangs in the balance, ALEC decided to choose a legislator who has had trouble defining rape.

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," boasted Greene. Read the rest of this item here.

Koch Troops Queasy About Killing State and Local Tax Deduction to Fund Tax Breaks for the Rich

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.

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 Trump himself. The elimination of a popular tax deduction throws salt into the wound. Read the rest of this item here.

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-<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/11/20/alec-corporate-members-lay-off-12000-workers-2017/ ALEC Corporate Members Lay Off Over 12,000 Workers in 2017]</h3>
+<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>
-[[Image:ALEC_magnified350x175px.jpg|270 px|center]]More than one-third of the large corporate members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and half of all pharmaceutical company members had mass layoffs in 2017.
+[[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.
-Through the corporate-funded ALEC, global corporations and state politicians vote behind closed doors to try to rewrite state laws that protect workers, consumers, and the environment.
+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. Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/10/22/alecs-corporate-sponsors-top-nations-lawbreaker-list/ here].
-ALEC companies may want to spend less time trying to dismantle regulations, and more time running their business. Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/11/20/alec-corporate-members-lay-off-12000-workers-2017/ 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>