Alec grows vulnerable as 11 legislators cut ties with lobbying network

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Alec grows vulnerable as 11 legislators cut ties with lobbying network

Ed Pilkington in New York
guardian.co.uk, Friday 18 May 2012 21.51 BST

The storm surrounding the American Legislative Exchange Council, Alec, has gathered pace with the fresh defection of 11 Democratic state legislators who have cut off ties with the lobbying network.

The defections bring the number of Democratic representatives in state assemblies across the country who have dumped Alec to 39.

The network, which brings together big corporations with local politicians to forward right-wing and anti-union legislation, has come under sustained pressure from campaigns such as the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.

Of the 11 new defectors, eight are Democratic representatives in Pennsylvannia, two in Illinois and one in Iowa.

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/may/18/alec-lobby-politics-florida

[jerseyjack]

1. We need to attack the membership of the corporations one by one.

I set up a petition to ask CVS to resign. It went nowhere. Other corporations should be petitioned.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Eugene.

[Xedniw]

3. But have they started a new group with a new name to do what ALEC does?

That's the trick.

[Laxman]

4. I will get excited...

When republican's start abandoning ALEC. As for the corporations, we've seen that they are sensitive to public pressure on ALEC membership. I agree. Start picking them off on-by-one. I also think they will just form a new group even more behind-the-scenes than ALEC to accomplish what they want. State legislators come cheap. Check out the amount of money donated to many of them. Their souls are for sale for around $500.00. Sad day when ALEC can undercut Satan's price.