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<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/07/12/alec-extreme-exxon-long-term-alec-board-member-dumps-alec-climate-denial-policy%e2%80%8b/ Is ALEC Too Extreme for Exxon?]</h3>


ExxonMobil will not renew its membership in ALEC after a split within the corporate lobbying group over how to address climate change, Bloomberg [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-12/exxon-quits-koch-backed-business-group-after-climate-change-row reported].
<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/11/29/att-drops-alec-hosting-hate-speech/ AT&T Drops ALEC for Hosting Hate Speech]</h3>
AT&T joins Verizon in rush to the exit after ALEC featured a far-right speaker at its annual meeting.  


Exxon's exit follows a disagreement [https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/heartland-institute-statement-on-alec-endangerment-finding-resolution over a resolution] introduced in December by the Heartland Institute.
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/11/29/att-drops-alec-hosting-hate-speech/ here].
 
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/07/12/alec-extreme-exxon-long-term-alec-board-member-dumps-alec-climate-denial-policy%e2%80%8b/ here].
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<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/06/19/alec-deadly-asbestos-agenda-benefits-koch-industries/ ALEC's Deadly Asbestos Agenda Benefits Koch Industries, Nationwide]</h3>
<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/11/28/alec-embraces-trumpism-climate-catastrophe-school-privatization-policy-summit/ ALEC Embraces Trumpism, Climate Catastrophe, and School Privatization at Policy Summit]</h3>
ALEC state legislators, lobbyists, and Koch operatives return to Washington, D.C. for ALEC’s States & Nation Policy Summit to promote an agenda only fossil fuel companies could love.


ALEC [https://www.alec.org/article/legislator-of-the-week-missouri-representative-bruce-degroot/ named] Missouri Republican state Rep. Bruce DeGroot as a "Legislator of the Week" in June.
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/11/28/alec-embraces-trumpism-climate-catastrophe-school-privatization-policy-summit/ here].
 
Why is ALEC so fond of DeGroot? Because he has cheerfully championed ALEC legislation to restrict the right of terminally ill, asbestos victims to sue over mesothelioma. In doing so, DeGroot is helping the many U.S. companies that have asbestos-related liability.
 
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/06/19/alec-deadly-asbestos-agenda-benefits-koch-industries/ here].
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<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/05/22/epic-fail-supreme-court-strips-non-union-workers-power/ EPIC Fail: Supreme Court Turns Back the Clock to Strip Workers of Power]</h3>
<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/09/17/verizon-dumps-alec-denounces-speaker-racist/ Verizon Dumps ALEC, Denounces Speaker as Racist]</h3>
Verizon has decided to quit the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) following a public outcry over the corporate lobby group’s hosting of David Horowitz as a prominent speaker at its annual meeting in New Orleans in August.


When unemployment drops and labor markets tighten, wages are expected to rise, but few workers are seeing more money in their paychecks since unemployment dipped below 4 percent.
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/09/17/verizon-dumps-alec-denounces-speaker-racist/ here].
 
Economists agree that a key variable in the wage stagnation is the inability of the vast majority of American workers to join together to demand higher wages.
 
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in ''Epic Systems Corporation v. Lewis'' that businesses can prohibit their workers from banding together to battle their employers in court.
 
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/05/22/epic-fail-supreme-court-strips-non-union-workers-power/ here].
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<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/06/21/teamsters-vote-authorize-ups-strike/ Teamsters Vote to Authorize a Strike at UPS]</h3>
<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/08/27/broad-coalition-calls-corporations-drop-funding-alec-horowitz-speeches/ Broad Coalition Calls on Corporations to Drop Funding for ALEC Over Horowitz Speeches]</h3>
On June 5, over 90 percent of the 250,000 members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters working for United Parcel Service and UPS Freight [https://teamster.org/news/2018/06/ups-ups-freight-members-authorize-strikes-if-necessary voted to authorize a strike] if needed in current contract negotiations.
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.
 
The vote sets up a major test case for President Trump's claims that savings from the massive corporate tax cut pushed through by Republicans in Congress last fall will result in higher wages for American workers.
 
UPS is a member of the American Exchange Legislative Council. ALEC strongly supported the Republican tax cuts.


Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/06/21/teamsters-vote-authorize-ups-strike/ here].
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/08/27/broad-coalition-calls-corporations-drop-funding-alec-horowitz-speeches/ here].
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<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/05/12/novartis-cohen-two-kind/ Novartis and Cohen: Two of a Kind]</h3>
<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/08/17/nonpartisan-alec-will-celebrate-45th-gala-gop-stars-lobbyists-trump-hotel/ “Nonpartisan” ALEC Will Celebrate 45th Gala with GOP Stars and Lobbyists at Trump Hotel]</h3>
 
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.
"Yesterday was not a good day for Novartis." That's what the chief executive of the pharmaceutical giant [https://www.statnews.com/2018/05/10/novartis-ceo-email-employees-michael-cohen/ told] his staff in the wake of embarrassing reports that it was among a handful of large corporations that made questionable payments to President Trump's personal fixer Michael Cohen. Novartis ultimately admitted it was a "[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-daniels-novartis/novartis-calls-12-million-deal-with-trump-lawyers-firm-a-mistake-idUSKBN1IA0T8 mistake]."


Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/05/12/novartis-cohen-two-kind/ here].
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/08/08/common-cause-exposes-alec-influence-louisiana/ here].
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<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/05/07/take-money-run-trump-tax-cuts-boost-earnings-alec-corps-layoff-workers/ Take the Money and Run: Trump Tax Cuts Boost Earnings of ALEC Corps Which Promptly Layoff Workers]</h3>
<h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/08/15/wisconsin-gop-nominated-alec-iron-lady-take-tammy-baldwin/ Wisconsin GOP Just Nominated ALEC’s “Iron Lady” to Take on Tammy Baldwin]</h3>
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.


Nine major publicly traded corporations that are funders of ALEC just reported earnings from the first quarter of 2018. Trump's recent massive corporate tax cuts were sold as a job creation mechanism, but rather than creating jobs, all nine companies reported layoffs that have recently taken place or are planned for 2018.
Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/08/15/wisconsin-gop-nominated-alec-iron-lady-take-tammy-baldwin/ here].


Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/05/07/take-money-run-trump-tax-cuts-boost-earnings-alec-corps-layoff-workers/ here].
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More ALEC News

AT&T Drops ALEC for Hosting Hate Speech

AT&T joins Verizon in rush to the exit after ALEC featured a far-right speaker at its annual meeting.

Read the rest of this item here.

ALEC Embraces Trumpism, Climate Catastrophe, and School Privatization at Policy Summit

ALEC state legislators, lobbyists, and Koch operatives return to Washington, D.C. for ALEC’s States & Nation Policy Summit to promote an agenda only fossil fuel companies could love.

Read the rest of this item here.

Verizon Dumps ALEC, Denounces Speaker as Racist

Verizon has decided to quit the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) following a public outcry over the corporate lobby group’s hosting of David Horowitz as a prominent speaker at its annual meeting in New Orleans in August.

Read the rest of this item here.

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.

“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.

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