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'''Corporate backers of the ALEC have funneled an estimated $4 million in gifts to state legislators for travel, hotel rooms, and meals at posh resorts with corporate lobbyists since 2006.'''
'''Corporate backers of the ALEC have funneled an estimated $4 million in gifts to state legislators for travel, hotel rooms, and meals at posh resorts with corporate lobbyists since 2006.'''


'''View the [http://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/f/fa/BUYING_INFLUENCE_Main_Report.pdf main report here].* View the [http://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/a/a3/BUYING_INFLUENCE_ALEC_Scholarships_by_State.pdf ALEC "scholarships" by state here].'''  
'''View the [http://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/2/2f/BUYING_INFLUENCE.pdf combined report and ALEC "scholarships" by state here]. View the [http://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/f/fa/BUYING_INFLUENCE_Main_Report.pdf main report here]. View the [http://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/a/a3/BUYING_INFLUENCE_ALEC_Scholarships_by_State.pdf ALEC "scholarships" by state here].'''  


'''Ask corporations to [http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/632/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=10002 cut ties with ALEC] and ask lawmakers [http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/Ask_Your_Legislator_about_ALEC to take a stand against ALEC's influence peddling].'''
'''Ask corporations to [http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/632/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=10002 cut ties with ALEC] and ask lawmakers [http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/Ask_Your_Legislator_about_ALEC to take a stand against ALEC's influence peddling].'''


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''A combined version of this report is available as one PDF viewable with Adobe Reader [http://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/2/2f/BUYING_INFLUENCE.pdf here].''
* Note:  Due to a technical glitch in the production of this report a  sentence on page 14 about ALEC's education privatization boot camp was  altered in a way that was not consistent with the original version that  CMD wrote. The fourth paragraph on that page should read: "ALEC's major  meetings and task force 'boot camps' occur at posh hotels — like the one  held last January at a Ritz Carlton on Amelia Island, Fla., to discuss  privatizing public education, which was closed to the press and public."  This sentence will be substituted in a revised version of the report,  which is under production. ALEC does allow some press to attend some  parts of ALEC meetings, but has excluded some press from its plenary  sessions and excludes all press from the sessions where corporate  lobbyists vote alongside elected officials on templates to change the  law, as CMD has written repeatedly. See generally Lisa Graves, "ALEC  Politician Claims ALEC Meetings Are 'Open to Public.' Really?,"  PRWatch.org (01-12-12), http://www.prwatch.org/node/11237

Revision as of 19:04, 6 December 2012

"Buying Influence," a Special Report Released; ALEC Corporate Slush Fund Pays for State Lawmakers' Junkets

Corporate backers of the ALEC have funneled an estimated $4 million in gifts to state legislators for travel, hotel rooms, and meals at posh resorts with corporate lobbyists since 2006.

View the combined report and ALEC "scholarships" by state here. View the main report here. View the ALEC "scholarships" by state here.

Ask corporations to cut ties with ALEC and ask lawmakers to take a stand against ALEC's influence peddling.

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