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<h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/node/12829 Groups Add to Evidence in "Whistleblower" Tax Fraud Claim Against ALEC]</h3>
<h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/node/12876 Hot Topics at ALEC's 2015 Meeting in San Diego]</h3>


Common Cause and the Center for Media and Democracy sent federal authorities new evidence today that the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is falsely passing itself off as a tax-exempt charity and effectively using taxpayer dollars to subsidize its lobbying on behalf of private interests.  
Last week, the American Legislative Exchange Council, or "ALEC," brought together hundreds of corporate lobbyists with state and local politicians at a posh hotel in San Diego for the group's annual meeting.


Common Cause filed a supplement to its three-year-old tax whistleblower complaint against ALEC, and the two groups sent a joint letter to Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen demanding an investigation, collection of fines and back taxes, and the revocation of ALEC’s status as a tax-exempt charity.
Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/node/12876 here].
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<h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/node/12851 Scott Walker: The First ALEC President?]</h3>


Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/node/12829 here].
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker addresses the annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in San Diego.
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<h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/node/12782 The ALEC-Backed War on Local Democracy]</h3>


After the town of Denton, Texas passed a ballot initiative banning fracking in November 2014, the oil and gas industry reacted with outrage and swiftly filed suit. Politicians in the state capitol responded with a fusillade of bills to preempt local authority over public health and safety and to subject local ballot initiatives to pre-approval by the state attorney general. There was even a bill to end local home rule altogether.
Walker’s speech at ALEC will be a reunion of sorts. Walker was an ALEC member as a state legislator in the 1990s.


Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/node/12782 here].
Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/node/12826 here].
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<h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/node/12780  ALEC, NFIB Push Prevailing Wage Repeal]</h3>
<h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/node/12829 Groups Add to Evidence in "Whistleblower" Tax Fraud Claim Against ALEC]</h3>


As unions and working people battle "right-to-work" legislation in several states, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and allies have opened another flank in their war on good jobs. Targeted this time are state prevailing wage laws, which require public construction projects to support local wage standards instead of undercutting them. Studies have repeatedly found that prevailing wage laws do not harm taxpayers but are effective in providing something increasingly rare in regional labor markets, upward pressure on wages.
Common Cause and the Center for Media and Democracy sent federal authorities new evidence that the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is falsely passing itself off as a tax-exempt charity and effectively using taxpayer dollars to subsidize its lobbying on behalf of private interests.


Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/node/12780 here].
Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/node/12829 here].
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<h3>[http://prwatch.org/news/2015/03/12779/bp-dumps-alec BP Dumps ALEC; Tally at 102]</h3>
<h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/node/12782 The ALEC-Backed War on Local Democracy]</h3>


BP announced that it was cutting ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council, the controversial corporate bill mill. It is the third major fossil fuel company to sever ties with ALEC, after Occidental Petroleum in 2014. ExxonMobil remains on the ALEC private sector board.
After the town of Denton, Texas passed a ballot initiative banning fracking in November 2014, the oil and gas industry reacted with outrage and swiftly filed suit. Politicians in the state capitol responded with a fusillade of bills to preempt local authority over public health and safety and to subject local ballot initiatives to pre-approval by the state attorney general. There was even a bill to end local home rule altogether.


As of March 2015, at least 102 corporations and 19 non-profits--for a total of 121 private sector members--have publicly announced that they cut ties with ALEC. You can see a full list of companies that have cut ties [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Corporations_that_Have_Cut_Ties_to_ALEC here].
Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/node/12782 here].
 
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More ALEC News

Hot Topics at ALEC's 2015 Meeting in San Diego

Last week, the American Legislative Exchange Council, or "ALEC," brought together hundreds of corporate lobbyists with state and local politicians at a posh hotel in San Diego for the group's annual meeting.

Read the rest of this item here.

Scott Walker: The First ALEC President?

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker addresses the annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in San Diego.

Walker’s speech at ALEC will be a reunion of sorts. Walker was an ALEC member as a state legislator in the 1990s.

Read the rest of this item here.

Groups Add to Evidence in "Whistleblower" Tax Fraud Claim Against ALEC

Common Cause and the Center for Media and Democracy sent federal authorities new evidence that the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is falsely passing itself off as a tax-exempt charity and effectively using taxpayer dollars to subsidize its lobbying on behalf of private interests.

Read the rest of this item here.

The ALEC-Backed War on Local Democracy

After the town of Denton, Texas passed a ballot initiative banning fracking in November 2014, the oil and gas industry reacted with outrage and swiftly filed suit. Politicians in the state capitol responded with a fusillade of bills to preempt local authority over public health and safety and to subject local ballot initiatives to pre-approval by the state attorney general. There was even a bill to end local home rule altogether.

Read the rest of this item here.

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