From the Center for Media and Democray's PRWatch:
http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/10/11053/alec-and-coca-cola-classic-collaborationWhat is Coca-Cola doing behind closed doors with Koch Industries and other multinational corporations in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)? Coca-Cola Refreshments' Director of Public Affairs and Communications, Gene Rackley, represents Coke on ALEC's "Private Enterprise" Board, along with Koch Industries' Michael Morgan.
Coke and ALEC have a lot in common. Both love free trade and have been big boosters of free trade agreements, such as the Korea, Panama and Columbia agreements facing votes this week in Congress. Both are dubious about recycling, especially taxes applied to industry to pay for mandatory recycling. But in one area, ALEC policy benefits Coke and other sweet drink makers directly.
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Coke and the ABA have successfully resisted bills and overturned laws imposing taxes on soft drinks in Florida -- thanks to Agriculture Commissioner and ALEC alumnus Adam Putnam -- New York and Washington State.
In 2009, when soda taxes were front page news with some frequency, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) approved "A Resolution in Opposition to Discriminatory Food and Beverage Taxes" (pdf). This fill-in-the-blank resolution is couched in pro-worker language, concluding that (fill-in-the-blank State) "fully supports hardworking Americans, and opposes all efforts -- federally and on the state level -- to impose discriminatory taxes on food and/or beverages."
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The article also links to a Center for Media and Democracy Democracyinaction.org page where you can send a letter to the CEO of Coca-Cola, telling him to DUMP ALEC!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/632/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8261More on this corporate-front group and the harm it does in the compilation topic on the
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
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