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Broad Coalition Calls on Corporations to Drop Funding for ALEC Over Horowitz Speeches The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) has joined a coalition of 78 government reform, civil rights, labor, environmental, and advocacy organizations urging 20 of the largest corporate funders of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to cut ties with the corporate bill mill. Read the rest of this item here. ALEC Launches Effort to Protect Gerrymandering from Judges Efforts to limit the courts' role in creating district maps come as 2020 redistricting looms. Read the rest of this item here. “Nonpartisan” ALEC Will Celebrate 45th Gala with GOP Stars and Lobbyists at Trump Hotel Invitations have gone out for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)’s 45th Gala on September 26, 2018 at the Trump International Hotel, just blocks from the White House in Washington, D.C., and the event chairs and committee members are a who’s who of prominent Republicans, big polluters, lobbyists, and union busters. Read the rest of this item here. Wisconsin GOP Just Nominated ALEC’s “Iron Lady” to Take on Tammy Baldwin Koch loyalist and Wisconsin State Senator Leah Vukmir won the Wisconsin GOP primary for U.S. Senate by a whopping 50-42 percent, beating veteran, “Send in a Marine,” Kevin Nicholson who vastly outspent her. Vukmir will be taking on the Kochs’ top target, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin, in the fall. Read the rest of this item here.