ALEC [American Legislative Exchange Council]
"Q - In all of your research, was there anything that really shocked you?
A - Oh goodness… I wasn’t very up on ALEC [American Legislative Exchange Council]. I’d heard about it, but trying to drill down into defining it required a lot of investigation. It’s a stunning, stunning thing.
ALEC is so well funded and connected, it’s like a private club with politicians and corporations. The corporate members create fake laws, give them to the politician members, put money behind it, and those fake laws become real laws.
I mean, wow. First of all, it’s genius [laughs], but it’s just too bad that the laws are not good for the people. I learned other things, but ALEC was the biggest piece of all, in the light of how it’s connected to the “stand your ground” laws, which became a very hot topic in respect to the Trayvon Martin/ George Zimmerman case, and immigration laws."
https://www.filmcomment.com/article/ava-duvernay-interview-the-13th/
List of members of the American Legislative Exchange Council …
https://en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_members_of_the_American_Legislative_Exchange…
The American Legislative Exchange Council, otherwise known by the acronym ALEC, is a non-profit 501(c) political organization established in 1973 in Chicago …
Task force members • Corporate and non-profit … • Legislative members
Legislative Membership - American Legislative Exchange Council
https://www.alec.org/membership-type/legislative-membership/
For just $100 for a two-year membership, you can be part of America's largest nonpartisan, voluntary membership organization of state policymakers. ALEC …
Corporations that Have Cut Ties to ALEC - SourceWatch
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Corporations_that_Have_Cut_Ties_to_ALEC
Kraft: Announced in an email on April 6th, 2012 that "Our membership in ALEC expires this spring and for a number of reasons…we have made the decision not …
ALEC, a Tax-Exempt Group, Mixes Legislators and Lobbyists - The …
https://www.nytimes.com/…/alec-a-tax-exempt-group-mixes-legislators-and-lobbyists.ht…
The American Legislative Exchange Council, whose members include lawmakers and corporations, drafts legislation on which 1000 bills …
Exposing ALEC: How Conservative-Backed State Laws Are All …
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/04/exposing-alec-how…/255869/
To itself, ALEC is an organization dedicated to the advancement of free market …. The group claims a membership of some 900,000 people.
Ghostwriting the Law – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2002/09/ghostwriting-law/
With more than 2,400 state lawmakers as members—roughly one third of the nation's total—ALEC is a year-round clearinghouse for business-friendly legislation …
“For instance, fossil fuel companies, such as Koch Industries and Peabody Energy, worked through ALEC to develop state-based legislation opposing federal standards on clean air and climate change. In the past, private prison firms worked with the group to draft “three-strikes” legislation and other policies that increased incarceration rates. The National Rifle Association partnered with ALEC to author gun rights bills.
The decision by ALEC to bring its conference to the Trump International Hotel comes as an array of special-interest groups hoping to curry favor with President Donald Trump have selected properties owned by the president and his family as venues for their events.”
https://theintercept.com/2017/10/11/alec-conference-trump-hotel/