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ALEC Corporations
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 and vote with legislators to approve “model” bills. They have their own corporate governing board which meets jointly with the legislative board. (ALEC says that corporations do not vote on the board.) They fund almost all of ALEC's operations. Participating legislators, overwhelmingly conservative Republicans, then bring those proposals home and introduce them in statehouses across the land as their own brilliant ideas and important public policy innovations—without disclosing that corporations crafted and voted on the bills. ALEC boasts that it has over 1,000 of these bills introduced by legislative members every year, with one in every five of them enacted into law. ALEC describes itself as a “unique,” “unparalleled” and “unmatched” organization. It might be right. It is as if a state legislature had been reconstituted, yet corporations had pushed the people out the door. Learn more at ALECexposed.org.
This article contains the names of for-profit corporations, corporate trade groups, non-profit corporations and law firms that are known to be, or have been, American Legislative Exchange Council(ALEC) members of or involved in ALEC.
This is a partial list. You can add to it, if you cite your source.
ALEC members known to be current, as of July 2011, appear in bold.
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Read More: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ALEC_Co...
Top Opinion
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Tea in the Harbor 2011/07/16 22:33:05I know about this and its time to END the corporate take over of America
+17Funny, if you put together all the insane conspiracy theories of the right, you would have ALEC, and it turns out they are in charge of both the theories and the conspiracy!
Thanks for informing us
much imagination to decide who to "work" for, the only solution is to eliminate career politicians,
remove the perks, salary commensurate on actual time spent in legislation, and absolutely no pension for any elected office.
To tie this situation to a particular political party is the height of ignorance.
it doesn't require
much imagination to decide who to "work" for, the only solution is to eliminate career politicians,
remove the perks, salary commensurate on actual time spent in legislation, and absolutely no pension for any elected office.
and unfortunate but true, its IS the republican party who pushes much more for the corporation. Im not saying that all poli's are paid for whores by them, but it seems to lay on the right mostly.
http://www.alternet.org/story...
Under ALEC’s published by-laws, legislators who are ALEC “state chairmen” have a “duty” to get the model bills introduced in their state legislatures. However, when ALEC legislation is introduced in state houses, it is under the name of the sponsoring legislator rather than ALEC itself, with no mention that the bill was pre-voted on by corporations through ALEC or even connecting the bill to ALEC. The task forces obscure how “corporations [get] access and influence for which they'd otherwise be publicly scrutinized."
The task forces as of 2011 are: * Civil Justice Task Force; * Commerce, Insurance, & Economic Development Task Force; * Education Task Force; * Energy, Environment, Natural Resources & Agriculture Task Force; * Health & Human Services Task Force; * International Relations Task Force; * Public Safety & Elections Task Force * Tax & Fiscal Policy Task Force; * Telecommunications & Information Technology Task Force
The government is supposed to govern on behalf of the people, but we must remember - corporations are people too... (I'm gonna puke!)
All caused by the co-mingling of assets.
Institutional investors comprise 70 to 80% of stock market investments. Thus, institutional investors hold large amounts of Corporate shares. The majority of Institutional Investors are Pension Funds and Unions.
The goal of this is profitability and maximum returns on the investment. The investment wants the corporation to have a completive advantage, so the inflow of revenues can be reliable. As many of the Corporations with Institutional Investor Shareholders are members of ALEC,
indirectly, but not covertly, Unions are members of ALEC also.
Funny how the circle is a wheel.
You've listed the members. That's good. You need to list some of the legislative initiatives ALEC is pushing. Yikes! Some of them are downright fascist.