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<h3>[http://prwatch.org/node/12666 An Embattled ALEC, Buoyed by Election Results, Lays Blueprint for 2015]</h3>
<h3>[http://prwatch.org/node/12685 More Corporations Flee as ALEC Rolls Out Its Legislative Agenda]</h3>
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The midterm elections may have given the embattled American Legislative Exchange Council a new lease on life. ALEC has been bleeding corporate members, but with Republicans now in control of 68 out of 98 state legislative bodies, there are fewer impediments to the enactment of the corporate-friendly legislation that ALEC peddles -- and in early December, ALEC and the corporations that still fund it will likely lay out the legislative blueprint for 2015 at the ALEC States & Nation Policy Summit in Washington, DC.
Only nine funders of the [http://www.ALECexposed.org American Legislative Exchange Council]'s annual winter meeting in Washington, DC, are listed on ALEC's conference brochure this year.


“Prior to the sweeping change witnessed in 2010, one must look back to 1896 to see such a momentous shift in leadership at the federal, state and local levels,” wrote ALEC Executive Director Lisa B. Nelson in a November 5 email to ALEC members. Republicans expanded their majorities in many states, took control of 11 legislative chambers that had been held by Democrats, and gained three governorships. She claimed the election results were “a historic victory for limited government, free markets and federalism.”
The small number comes at a time when ALEC is crowing about the November 4 elections, which swept in more Republican legislators and potential recruits for ALEC's operations--where elected lawmakers vote as equals with corporations behind closed doors on "model' bills to change Americans' rights.


Yet, the actual policy ideas that ALEC promotes are less popular than ever. Republican and Democratic voters across the country voted overwhelmingly in favor of increasing the minimum wage on election day -- which ALEC and ALEC funders like the National Restaurant Association have [http://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/3/34/1E10-Starting_(Minimum)_Wage_Repeal_Act_Exposed.pdf long] [http://alecexposed.org/w/images/f/f9/7G12-Resolution_to_Preserve_the_Legislative_Process_Exposed.pdf opposed] -- and not surprisingly, a top agenda item at ALEC's December meeting is aimed at thwarting efforts to raise the wage. Read the rest of this item [http://prwatch.org/node/12666 here].
The way ALEC works has been called a "[http://www.progressive.org/inside_alec.html corporate dating service]" by U.S. <strong>Rep. Mark Pocan</strong>, who has observed ALEC's closed-door votes of corporate lobbyists and state legislators. But with [http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/11/12669/emerson-electric-latest-confirm-alec-exit nearly 100 private sector funders having left] ALEC since CMD launched ALECexposed.org in 2011 and citizens across the country began learning about how special interests wine and dine lawmakers through ALEC to push controversial bills into law, ALEC brochures listing corporate sponsors are not as full as they used to be. (The list of sponsors is [http://www.prwatch.org/files/12-2014_alec_conference_sponsors_.jpg here].)
 
Read the rest of this item [http://prwatch.org/node/12685 here].
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ALEC news

More Corporations Flee as ALEC Rolls Out Its Legislative Agenda

Only nine funders of the American Legislative Exchange Council's annual winter meeting in Washington, DC, are listed on ALEC's conference brochure this year.

The small number comes at a time when ALEC is crowing about the November 4 elections, which swept in more Republican legislators and potential recruits for ALEC's operations--where elected lawmakers vote as equals with corporations behind closed doors on "model' bills to change Americans' rights.

The way ALEC works has been called a "corporate dating service" by U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, who has observed ALEC's closed-door votes of corporate lobbyists and state legislators. But with nearly 100 private sector funders having left ALEC since CMD launched ALECexposed.org in 2011 and citizens across the country began learning about how special interests wine and dine lawmakers through ALEC to push controversial bills into law, ALEC brochures listing corporate sponsors are not as full as they used to be. (The list of sponsors is here.)

Read the rest of this item here.

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