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Ford: The Latest
Big Company to Dump ALEC
In the last five years, more
than a hundred corporations have left the conservative non-profit.
Story from here (Bill Moyers report), in part. A very
good article and congrats to Ford Motor Company for stepping up and doing what
is right.
Ford Motor Company has
announced it is dropping out of the American Legislative Exchange Council
(ALEC), the conservative think tank that
passes along drafts of corporate-authored legislation to state politicians, who
are then encouraged to introduce the bills as their own.
(I note: This is not how our
system was set up or how it’s supposed to work, except I guess according to GOP
“conservative” rules – you know those who stand for tradition and the
Constitution and values, and stuff. Yeah, that GOP party).
Over the last several years,
as reporters have shed a light on ALEC’s machinations, many companies have quit
the organization. PR Watch, which tracks the group, has counted 108 corporations and 19 non-profits that
have left ALEC since 2011, including Google, Microsoft, Shell, BP, American
Electric Power, General Electric and eBay.
Who is ALEC? They are funded
by wealthy right-wing donors, including the Koch brothers. ALEC has encouraged
legislation at the state level that would weaken unions and combat gun control
regulations, and such.
In recent years, the group
has attracted deeper scrutiny as it was revealed to be a major force behind
state voter ID laws that effectively disenfranchise millions, and the
stand-your-ground self-defense laws that played a role in the Florida shooting death of Trayvon
Martin for example.
Continue reading at the
Moyers link.
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