by MCDC | Dec 28, 2013 | Citizens United, Ethics
byLaura Clawson The American Legislative Exchange Council has been influencing policy for the worse for decades; with the news that ALEC is struggling to keep members and raise the big corporate money to which it’s accustomed, let’s review just what all...
by MCDC | Dec 22, 2013 | Environment, Global Warming, Issues
by Kiley Kroh Organizations that actively block efforts to address climate change are funded by a large network of conservative donors to the tune of nearly $1 billion a year, according to the first in-depth study into the dark money that fuels the denial effort....
by MCDC | Dec 10, 2013 | Citizens United, Ethics, Issues
via NPR ALEC is sort of almost a dating service between politicians at the state level, local elected politicians, and many of America’s biggest companies. It brings them together much as a dating service would do. It sits them in rooms behind closed doors where...
by MCDC | Dec 8, 2013 | 2016 General Election, Citizens United, Ethics, Issues, Virginia
By Dana Milbank “What you fundamentally need to know about this organization is it’s completely legislator driven,” said senior director of public affairs Bill Meierling. Uh-huh. And ALEC is proving that by keeping reporters from the rooms where the legislators are...
by MCDC | Dec 6, 2013 | 2016 General Election, Citizens United, Ethics
ALEC is the American Legislative Exchange Council, a business-casual matchmaker service between corporate interests and sympathetic lawmakers. They operate mostly in state legislatures, where they have used “model legislation” to enact such beneficial statutes...
