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ALEC: What It Does and Why Three Major Corporations Cut Ties
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ALEC: What It Does and Why Three Major Corporations Cut Ties
By Adam Sorensen
April 9, 2012
Time
http://swampland.time.com/2012/04/09/alec-what-it-does-and-
why-three-major-corporations-cut-ties/?iid=ec-main-mostpop2
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/7u4zs2y
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When Americas corporate titans shift their weight, the tremors travel
fast. Last week, Coca-Cola, Kraft and accounting-software giant Intuit
announced they were ending their membership in a conservative nonprofit
group called the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The news
sent reporters scrambling to explain what exactly the 39-year-old
organization does, why it matters and how its role in spreading laws
governing everything from voter ID requirements to
anti-illegal-immigration efforts came to be a problem for some of
Americas foremost corporate citizens.
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What may have seemed like an obscure bit of corporate priority shifting
quickly became a hot button. By the end of last week, the news had made
the front page of social-media hive mind Reddit, whose users enjoy
earnest, libertarian-leaning encomiums to open government almost as much
as they like posting cat pictures. It is time for a call to action, the
post began. ALEC has been exposed.
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The high-profile departures from ALEC were not set in motion nor fully
explained by just a few days of public scrutiny. For the past four months,
liberal advocacy groups, unions and activist investors have been reaching
out to major corporations, asking them to further disclose their activity
with ALEC or drop membership altogether. Things boiled over last week, but
the underlying issues had been simmering for much longer.
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ALEC, a tax-exempt group operating under the 501(c)3 section of the IRS
code, bills itself as a nonpartisan membership association for
conservative state lawmakers interested in limited government, free
markets, federalism and individual liberty. It convenes policy task forces
and drafts model bills that can be introduced in state legislatures
nationwide. For a modest membership fee, conservative legislators gain
access to the groups resources. Think of ALECs prepackaged and prelawyered
legislation as Swanson TV dinners: all you need is a majority vote to
reheat it, and its ready to serve. The result: similarly flavored bills in
statehouses across the country.
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In many ways, ALEC resembles groups like the National Conference of State
Legislatures (NCSL), a nonpartisan resource for state lawmakers that
provides assistance, research and a brainstorming forum. As statehouse
budgets and staffs shrink, outside assistance has become critical. This is
how state governments work, says Alan Rosenthal, a professor of public
policy and political science at Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics.
ALEC isnt the first organization to use model bills. But ALEC is unique in
its ideology the NCSL and other groups like it have no political bent.
And ALECs coordination with corporate America is unparalleled among
legislative groups.
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Founded in 1973 by conservative lawmakers and activists most notably Paul
Weyrich, who also set up the flagship conservative think tank the Heritage
Foundation that same year ALEC was designed to further small-government
and private-sector interests at the local level. State legislators active
in its early efforts included Terry Branstad, now governor of Iowa; John
Kasich, now governor of Ohio; and Tommy Thompson, the former four-term
governor of Wisconsin who is currently running for the U.S. Senate. House
Speaker John Boehner, the highest-ranking Republican in the federal
government, is another alum. ALEC now claims some 2,000 state legislators
in its ranks, roughly a quarter of state lawmakers nationwide. More than
500 companies, foundations and individuals pay membership dues, according
to the organization.
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