Dec 16, 2021 · Ties to the Bradley Foundation. Through 2016 ALEC received $2,340,500 from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Bradley detailed the most recent grants in internal documents examined by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD). Below is a description of the grant prepared by CMD.
Feb 09, 2022 · Our Essential Policy Ideas for 2022. ALEC Policy Team / February 9, 2022. Throughout our nearly 50 year history, ALEC has always been at the forefront of producing and exchanging ideas and will continue to provide principled solutions that benefit all Americans. Our entire policy team at ALEC has hit the ground running in 2022, analyzing the ...
Mar 23, 2022 · An ALEC statement, as well as ALEC materials about the conflict, can be found here. Russia and Ukraine together account for nearly one-third of wheat and barley exports . The Black Sea region typically produces more than a billion bushels of corn for export, and Ukraine is the world’s largest producer of sunflower oil (46%) .
Oct 27, 2016 · Buchanan’s organization, the Farm Bureau, is one of the major backers of 777, donating $100,000 to the bill’s Political Action Committee, State Farmers Care SQ 777. However, another is the Pork Council, a 501c5 organization founded to advance the cause of pork producers. That group has given $76,586 to the PAC.
Corporate trade groups and other non-profit groups also make donations to ALEC of undisclosed sums. Examples include the NRA, the American Bail Association, and the American Petroleum Institute. There are also others listed here .
The full list of ALEC funders that year was attached to email to Phillip Morris USA's Mike Mike Irish from ALEC's Executive Director Kathleen Teague.
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) describes itself as the largest “membership association of state legislators, ” but over 98% of its revenue comes from sources other than legislative dues, primarily from corporations and corporate foundations. After the 2010 congressional midterm elections, ALEC boasted that “among those who won their elections, three of the four former state legislators newly-elected to the U.S. Senate are ALEC Alumni and 27 of the 42 former state legislators newly-elected to the U.S. House are ALEC Alumni.” (A full list of the Congressional freshmen who are ALEC alums can be found here .)
Charles Koch is the right-wing billionaire owner of Koch Industries. As one of the richest people in the world, he is a key funder of the right-wing infrastructure, including the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the State Policy Network (SPN). In SourceWatch, key articles on Charles Koch and his late brother David include: Koch ...
In December 2020, ALEC partnered with Turning Point USA, planning to increase the appointments of conservative student regents. ALEC called for TPUSA's assistance in recruiting and vetting “ideologically sound” regents candidates as well as providing “legislative recommendations, committee testimony, & grassroots support to secure legislative action.”
The National Journal recognized the rising prominence of ALEC in the New Right movement of the mid-1980s in a major feature article . The article noted its connections to the Heritage Foundation, including a shared Capitol Hill building. It also described the organization's political wing, the now defunct ALEC-PAC, which in 1984 targeted 84 legislative seats in states. Notably, the state backed conservative Democrats in some races, getting involved in states with either thin conservative or liberal majorities including Ohio, New Mexico, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Washington and Wisconsin.
ALEC model legislation is introduced in, and initially approved by, one of nine “task forces,” which are chaired by both elected officials and “private sector” corporate members. ALEC corportions are often represented by their lobbyists on ALEC’s board or task forces, and their representatives discuss and vote on legislation with legislators. For example, according to the American Association for Justice, in the area of “tort reform” legislation, “the nuts and bolts of . . . crafting legislation is done by large corporate defense firm Shook, Hardy & Bacon ,” which has defended tobacco companies and other corporations against lawsuits. The law firm’s partner, Victor Schwartz is a long-time co-chair of ALEC’s "civil justice" task force.
There has never been a time when both federal and state jurisdictions have been more in control of American’s healthcare than it is today. Implementation of the Affordable Care Act is well in motion, and each state has considered how to address provisions of the federal law as it has …
Unfortunately, the current monopolistic and expensive K-12 education system is failing our students, leaving them unprepared for college, careers, or life.
Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) benefits directly from the anti-immigrant legislation introduced in Arizona and other states that requires expanded incarceration and housing of immigrants, along with other bills from ALEC’s crime task force.
Is it nonpartisan as claimed? ALEC describes itself as a non-partisan, non-profit organization. The facts show that it currently has one Democrat out of 104 legislators in leadership positions. ALEC members, speakers, alumni, and award winners are a “who’s who” of the extreme right.
ALEC is not a lobby; it is not a front group. It is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, behind closed doors, corporations hand state legislators the changes to the law they desire that directly benefit their bottom line. Along with legislators, corporations have membership in ALEC. Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces ...