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<h3>Corporate Exodus Continues From ALEC as Secretive Right-Wing Group's Policies Come to Light</h3>
<h3>ALEC Under Fire</h3>
Democracy Now! - July 11, 2012: Five more corporations have severed ties with ALEC. The organization has pushed voter suppression bills, union-busting policies and other controversial legislation. The future of ALEC is now more precarious than ever before. We're joined by Lisa Graves, executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy, which created ALEC Exposed, a website showcasing more than 800 of the group's model bills.
KSTU Television FOX 13, Salt Lake City, UT - July 25, 2012: Lisa Graves, the executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy, went to Utah to protest the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), an organization that has taken center stage in a national debate over the proper roles of government and business.  "They [ALEC] vote on model legislation behind closed doors without the press, without people like you or the public present and then those state legislators come out to their state house and introduce those bills cleansed from any fact that they were pre-voted on by corporate lobbyists," Graves said.
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ALEC Under Fire

KSTU Television FOX 13, Salt Lake City, UT - July 25, 2012: Lisa Graves, the executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy, went to Utah to protest the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), an organization that has taken center stage in a national debate over the proper roles of government and business. "They [ALEC] vote on model legislation behind closed doors without the press, without people like you or the public present and then those state legislators come out to their state house and introduce those bills cleansed from any fact that they were pre-voted on by corporate lobbyists," Graves said.