Update on ALEC, Center for Media and Democracy

With legislatures again convening, invaluable information about who belongs to ALEC and will be pushing their agenda. The website also includes information about which corporations belong to ALEC and which have withdrawn. The latest major corporation to withdraw is Verizon.

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Verizon Dumps ALEC, Denounces Speaker as Racist

Verizon has decided to quit the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) following a public outcry over the corporate lobby group’s hosting of David Horowitz as a prominent speaker at its annual meeting in New Orleans in August.

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