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ALEC Conference Funding Dominated by Big Polluters At the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) 2015 annual meeting in San Diego, California, dirty energy companies and their supporters--including ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Duke Energy--continue to dominate the funding of activities, according to a list of conference sponsors obtained jointly by the Center for Media and Democracy and Greenpeace. Read the rest of this item here. 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.