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ALEC Plans “Confidential” Helicopter Border Tour in Texas for Board Members ALEC will take its legislative board members on a “confidential border tour” on Monday, August 12, just before the start of it’s Annual Meeting in Austin, according to documents obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy. Read the rest of this item here. Coke, Pepsi Drop Trade Association Pushing Plastic Ban Bans Plastic Industry Association works with ALEC to block regulation of single-use plastics. Read the rest of this item here. ALEC Says “Strike!” Just Do It Without Unions The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has gone on the record as supporting the right of workers to bargain collectively, and even strike, for better working conditions — as long as they do it without a union. Read the rest of this item here. Comcast Is Latest Telecommunications Company to Drop ALEC Comcast, one of the remaining telecommunication members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), has left the corporate bill mill. Read the rest of this item here. ALEC Teams up with Anti-LGBT Alliance Defending Freedom to Promote So-Called “Campus Free Speech” Bills ALEC is actively working with Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian Right litigation nonprofit that pursues an anti-LGBT agenda, to push so-called “Campus Free Speech” bills in the states. Read the rest of this item here. ALEC’s Washington State Chair Discussed Violence, Surveillance Against Constituents Washington State Rep. Matt Shea (R-Spokane) has found himself back in the spotlight again, this time for messages sent and received through the Signal app discussing acts of violence against and surveillance of left-wing activists. Read the rest of this item here.