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Mailbag: Bold Progressives: Amazon drops ALEC
WE DID IT! Over 95,000 PCCC members petitioned and Amazon answered. CEO Jeff Bezos announced yesterday the company would drop its membership in ALEC. Victory!! We got word as we protested outside Amazon's annual shareholder meeting with over 500,000 petition signatures in hand from PCCC members and our allies. Amazon bowed to public pressure and will no longer fund ALEC's agenda of union-busting and voter-suppression -- but corporations like...
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McEntee: Utahns need to take a hard look at ALEC and its influence
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McEntee: Utahns need to take a hard look at ALEC and its influence
By peg mcentee
Tribune Columnist
Published May 25, 2012 03:48PM MDT
The reawakening of the Sagebrush Rebellion began with a bold, if constitutionally suspect, demand from the 2012 Legislature: The federal government must cede all federal lands to the state of Utah.
That legislation was supported by the American Legislative Exchange Council, a corporate-backed and...
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- At Shareholder Meeting Amazon Drops ALEC, Dodges Tax Questions (feedproxy.google.com)
- Amazon Latest to Join ALEC Exodus (blog.aflcio.org)
Amazon Is Latest to Bail Out on ALEC
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Amid pressure from public advocacy groups, the online retail giant has announced that it will not renew its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council—the right-wing lobbying group that has been working behind the scenes to promote conservative legislation since the early 1970s.
The advocacy group Color of Change is leading the campaign calling for companies to quit the organization.
Other corporations that have cut ties with...
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- Mailbag: ALEC petition: www.boldprogressive.com (blogger.com)
- Amazon becomes 18th company to split with ALEC (api.bing.com)
- Amazon.com Drops ALEC, PFAW Encourages Others to Follow (api.bing.com)
Seventeenth Group Drops ALEC
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Scantron today became the seventeenth group to drop ALEC. The test-grading and online tutoring company told the Center for Media and Democracy that they cut ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council — a conservative group known for crafting legislation including voter supression laws and the “Stand Your Ground” law that protected George Zimmerman. Other [...]
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- Inside the Amazon Shareholders' Meeting -- ALEC, Mic Check and More (crooksandliars.com)
- New report details ALEC’s “State-Sanctioned Corruption” in Ohio (plunderbund.com)
- Common Cause Minnesota calls for state ALEC investigation (api.bing.com)
TEAMMATES: NRA News Introduces ALEC's Voter ID Successor Group
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Just one day after the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) disbanded its Public Safety and Elections Task Force that was responsible for model voter ID and "Kill At Will" self-defense legislation like that linked to Trayvon Martin's ...
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- ALEC Runs from NRA's Paranoid Trayvon Martin Agenda (api.bing.com)
I Stand with ALEC -- Amazon Didn't
The American Legislative Exchange Council has been under a vicious, all-out assault from notorious truther Van Jones and his cadre of leftists for daring to promote the free-enterprise system and other conservative ideas. Most recently, they have targeted ALEC’s member companies through shareholder activism. Apparently they succeeded in making enough fuss at Amazon’s shareholder meeting today that that brilliant innovator has cut off its...
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BREAKING: Eleven More Lawmakers Drop ALEC
In the last two months, sixteen companies and other institutional supporters of the American Legislative Exchange Council announced that they would part ways with the organization — likely costing the conservative group hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual funding. Similarly, several dozen lawmakers broke ties with ALEC due to a progressive campaign highlighting the [...]
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Amazon Drops ALEC Under Pressure From Advocacy Group
The giant Internet retailer Amazon.com Thursday said it will withdraw its membership from the American Legislative Exchange Council, the conservative public policy group that engineered controversial “stand your ground" gun laws and sweeping ...
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States Quietly Exempt ALEC From Lobbying Rules While ALEC Insists They Aren't...
enlargeI sure hope the IRS is paying close attention to this. In the wake of Common Cause's complaint to them about ALEC abusing their non-profit status by functioning as lobbyists, they've squawked about how it's all just a left-wing conspiracy to destroy them.
Yet, even as they squawk, news is emerging that in at least three separate states, legislation was passed exempting them from lobbying laws. Via MoJo:
It could take several years for...
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