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Internet Retailer Amazon.Com Drops Affiliation
with Conservative Legislative Group ALEC
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Internet Retailer Amazon.Com Drops Affiliation
with Conservative Legislative Group ALEC
By Associated Press
Published: May 24, 2012
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/
internet-retailer-amazoncom-drops-affiliation-
with-conservative-legislative-group-alec/2012/05/24/gJQAPDl3nU_story.html
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OLYMPIA, Wash. Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc. is dropping its
affiliation with a conservative political group, in part because of some
of the positions the American Legislative Exchange Council has taken, a
spokeswoman said Thursday.
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Amazons decision follows that of several major companies around the
country who have announced in recent months that they are leaving ALEC.
Liberal activists have led a coordinated campaign to highlight how ALEC
operates and some of the controversial pieces of legislation the
organization endorsed.
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Each year we evaluate all of our association memberships and weve decided
not to renew our participation in ALEC, in part because of positions that
group took on issues unrelated to our business, said Amazon spokeswoman
Mary Osako. She did not have specifics on those positions.
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Advocates complain that ALEC improperly influences legislation around the
country by allowing corporate leaders to develop model legislation
alongside state lawmakers. They also point to some of the laws that ALEC
has helped spread around the country, such as ID rules for voters and the
so-called Stand Your Ground self-defense law.
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Amazon worked in ALEC at least in part by focusing on tax laws, according
to model legislation and other records obtained by advocacy group Common
Cause. The company has fought taxation at the state level, and a measure
proposed at ALEC would have allowed companies to operate untaxed in states
even if they advertise, hold trade shows or work through subsidiaries.
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Amazon Drops ALEC Under Pressure From Advocacy Group
Posted: 05/24/2012 6:49 pm
Updated: 05/25/2012 10:58 am
Trymaine Lee
Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/24/
amazon-alec-pressure_n_1544028.html
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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 voter ID requirements that critics say
threaten to disenfranchise minority voters.
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The announcement was made during Amazon.com's annual shareholders meeting
in Seattle, as the hue and cry against the organization, known as ALEC,
and the corporations that support it continues to rise. Outside the
meeting at the Seattle Art Museum, more than 100 protesters hoisted signs
and clogged the entrance. Inside, Amazon executives and lawyers took
questions from shareholders, including some asking about the company's
membership in ALEC.
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Rashad Robinson, executive director of the advocacy group Color of Change,
called the withdrawal a win for the little guy. Color of Change has led a
campaign calling for corporations to quit ALEC, saying the group could no
longer work in the shadows.
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This is a big victory, Robinson told HuffPost. We are making it clear, not
just to Amazon, but to a number of other companies that thought folks were
moving on to a new issues. There is still great concern and great outrage
concerning any corporation that has anything to do with ALEC.
At least 16 major corporations, including Amazon, have dropped ALEC
membership since Color of Changes campaign began in December. They include
McDonalds, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Wendys, Mars Inc. and Kraft Foods.
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Robinson said that Color of Change teamed up with union workers to
disseminate petitions to Amazon shareholders at the meeting and sponsored
radio ads calling attention to Amazons membership in ALEC. Thankfully, he
said, we taped ads that will never get to run.
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ALEC still has plenty of corporate supporters, including the drugmaker
Pfizer and Koch Companies Public Sector, run by the conservative
Republican benefactors the Koch brothers.
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Under mounting pressure in the wake of the Martin killing, ALEC in April
said that it would end its social policy programs to focus more on core
economic issues.
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Robinson, with Color Of Change, said the goal of the campaign is to make
it clear to corporations that they cant have just a part of ALEC in the
dark. Weve worked within the marketplace to say that corporations cant
have it both ways, Robinson said. They cant have [an economic]
relationship with the black community and participate in its suppression.
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