Take Back Our Nation: BOYCOTT ALEC & ITS CORPORATE SPONSORS

Take Back Our Nation

BOYCOTT ALEC & ITS CORPORATE SPONSORS

Progressive Radio Network, Monday, April 9, 2012

It was Adlai Stevenson who said that it is often easier to fight for principles than it is to live up to them. Among our federal and state officials, who among them is honoring their elected mandate to serve first the public good?  Today we know that ethics, morality, and the principles of justice upon which our laws are founded has been usurped and perverted by an organization representing some of the most powerful, wealth and manipulative individuals and firms on the planet. This organization is the American Legislative Exchange Council, commonly known as ALEC, and their boards and steering committees represent some of the most influential corporatists in America. What they do is not merely pernicious in subverting the needs of citizens, but is pathological because their goals strictly self-serving and always at the detriment of the common good.

ALEC has taken a lead in denial regarding global warming and supports the pseudo science opposing humanity’s contribution to a warming planet. It has subordinated the environmental movement at the federal and state levels and it has done so on both the left and the right. On the left ALEC wants us to believe that Obama’s greatest achievements were funding renewable energy resources at a tune of $90 billion. However, $30 billion of that figure is to reinvigorate the nuclear power industry. We may also add Obama’s “renewable” illusions to aggressively pursue “clean coal”, his unequivocal support of hydraulic fracking for natural gas, the Keystone XL pipeline to Alberta’s tar sands, and an increase in deep water and Arctic oil exploration drilling. Moreover, ALEC is the media; hence they control the message.

When we look at the numerous laws that have been passed throughout many states, we witness how masterly ALEC’s elite play their game. Obama has stated that one of his major priorities is to strengthen national security. Besides his claims to protecting Americans from terrorism, he has also enacted additional executive orders and laws that further erode our Constitutional rights and freedoms. But to whose benefit?  ALEC’s.

ALEC’s concern for our public health mandates that every state should have mandatory vaccines for flu and human papillomavirus (HPV), such as Gardasil. Who does this benefit ultimately?  ALEC and those vaccine makers sponsoring ALEC’s agenda. It has nothing to do with science and public health.

The initiatives under way to strip environmental protections to secure clean water and air, to regulate toxic pollution from chemical companies and save our natural recourses from hydrofracking and coal powered energy plants are spearheaded by ALEC. Who was behind the rewriting of laws to prevent students being allowed to discharge their college loan debts in filing bankruptcy? ALEC corporations. Who wrote the Medicare act that will give nearly $1 trillion in profits to Big Pharma and prevent our health agencies from purchasing cheaper and equally effective generic drugs? ALEC and its pharmaceutical sponsors.

In fact, these are just some of the hundreds of federal and state laws that have been influenced or written directly by ALEC.  Every part of our lives is being controlled by ALEC corporations, whether acting on their own through in-house lobbyists in Washington and state capitols, or acting in concert through join initiatives with individual states.

The Center for the Media and Democracy, headed by Lisa Graves and her colleagues, has been at the forefront in unveiling and analyzing the hundreds of bills at federal and state levels that are being written and introduced through ALEC’s think tanks, corporate channels, and lobbyists. For a complete listing and review of these bills, the Center and PRWatch have created a separate website http://alecexposed.org provides an analysis about the stealth coup d’etat underway that will bring our nation under the control of some of the most powerful corporate elite within the 1 percent.

It is time that we understand the truth. Whoever controls the laws of the nation, individual states and municipalities controls citizens’ behavior. It is clear that from the $1.5 billion that will be spent in this year’s presidential campaigns that our country, our water and food, our energy and healthcare, no longer belongs to the American citizens.

Therefore, we are asking people to take a careful look at the list below of the corporations and non profit foundations sponsoring ALEC’s agenda and initiatives. Then act in a direction of that is principled, ethical and conscious in the choices you make and boycott all products produced and sold by these corporations. Finally make an effort to avoid voting for any federal and state legislator who allows has allowed his or her vote to support laws written by ALEC and that has been given to them as if it represented the will of the people.

Corporate, Legal, Non-Profit and Scholastic Sponsors of ALEC

Corporate Board

• Altria Group, Daniel Smith
• American Bail Coalition, William Carmichael, Jerry Watson
• AT&T, William Leahy
• Bayer Corp., Sandy Oliver
• CenterPoint 360, W. Preston Baldwin – Chairman
• Coca-Cola Company, Gene Rackley
• Diageo, Kenneth Lane
• Energy Future Holdings, Sano Blocker
• ExxonMobil Corporation, Randall Smith
• GlaxoSmithKline, John Del Giorno
• Intuit, Inc., Bernie McKay
• Johnson & Johnson, Don Bohn
• Koch Companies Public Sector, Mike Morgan
• Kraft Food, Inc., Derek Crawford
• Peabody Energy, Kelly Mader
• Pfizer Inc., Michael Hubert
• PhRMA, Jeff Bond
• Reed Elsevier, Inc., Teresa Jennings
• Reynolds American, David Powers
• Salt River Project, Russell Smoldon
• State Farm Insurance Co., Roland Spies
• United Parcel Service (UPS)^[2], Richard McArdle
• Wal-Mart Stores, Maggie Sans

For-Profit Corporations

• Alkermes, Inc. (biotechnology company), Exhibitor at ALEC’s 2011 Annual Conference
• Allergan, State corporate co-chair of Tennessee, “Chairman” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference ($50,000 in 2010) and member of Louisiana Host Committee
• Altria Group, ALEC Private Enterprise Board member co-chair of the International Relations Task Force and “Chairman” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference ($50,000 in 2010)
• Amazon.com, “Director” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conferenc ($10,000 in 2010
• Ameren sponsor during the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting
• American Electric Power, member of ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force
• Arizona Public Service Company
• AstraZeneca, State corporate co-chair of Delaware
• AT&T, Private Enterprise Board member , State corporate co-chair of Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, Telecommunications and Information Technology Task Force member
• Atmos Energy, “Director” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference

• Bayer Corp., Private Enterprise Board member,  State corporate co-chair of Massachusetts, Nevada, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Texas and “Chairman” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, “Director” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• BlueCross BlueShield of Louisiana, “Trustee” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• BP America, Inc., “President” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Bristol-Myers Squibb
• Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad (BNSF), “Trustee” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference

• CashAmerica “Vice Chairman” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Celgene Corporation, State corporate co-chair of Illinois
• CenterPoint 360, ALEC Private Enterprise Board member
• CenturyLink “Director” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Chesapeake Energy, “Director” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Chevron Corporation, “Director” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Civic Initiatives, LLC ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force member
• Cleco, “Trustee” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference and member of Louisiana Host Committee
• CN (Canadian National Railroad), “Trustee” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Comcast, State corporate co-chair of Georgia, Minnesota, Missouri and Utah and recipient of ALEC’s 2011 State Chair of the Year Award
• Connections Academy
• ConocoPhillips, “Director” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Corrections Corporation of America
• Cowart Group member of ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting Louisiana Host Committee
• Cox Communications, “Trustee” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• CQ Roll Call Exhibitor at ALEC’s 2011 Annual Conference
• CSX Corporation, “Trustee” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference

• Dell, Inc., ALEC Education Task Force member
• Diageo
• Dow Chemical Company, ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force member and “Director” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Duke Energy Corp., State corporate co-chair of Indiana and South Carolina

• Eli Lilly and Company, “Trustee” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Emerson Electric Co., ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force member
• EnCana Corporation, “Director” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Energy Future Holdings
• Energy Transfer “Director” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Entergy, “Vice Chairman” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Express Scripts (pharmaceutical retailer), sponsor of during the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting
• ExxonMobil Corporation, Private Enterprise Board member, “Chairman” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• EZCorp “Chairman” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference

• FedEx, Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force Executive Committee member, “Vice Chairman” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, “Vice Chairman” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference

• General Motors Corporation, ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force member
• Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (“short line and regional freight railroads in the United States, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands and Belgium”), “Trustee” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Georgia-Pacific (owned by Koch Industries), ALEC 2011 Annual Meeting Committee member
• GlaxoSmithKline, Private Enterprise Board member and State corporate co-chair of New Mexico, New York and North Carolina
• Guarantee Trust Life Insurance
• Gulf States Toyota, “Director” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference

• Harris Deville & Associates (public relations & lobbying), “Trustee” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• HP, “Trustee” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference^[7] ($5,000 in 2010)^[8]
• Hunt Guillot & Associates (engineering firm with offices in LA, TX & PA),

• International Paper, “Director” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference

• Jacobs Entertainment (film marketing firm), “Director” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• John Deere & Company, ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force member
• Johnson & Johnson, “Vice Chairman” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference

• K12 Inc.,
• Kansas City Southern (an “international transportation holding company” that owns, among other things, the Panama Canal Railway Company), “Trustee” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Know Who (political contact information company
• Koch Industries and Koch Industries Public Sector, Private Enterprise Board member, “Vice Chairman” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference

• Leadership Directories, Inc. (political contact information business
• Leavitt Partners (Utah healthcare and food safety business firm)
• LifeSaver Interlock Holdings, Inc. (manufacturer of ignition interlocks to be installed in the vehicles of DUI offenders
• LouisDreyfus Commodities, “Vice Chairman” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference

• Mars Inc
• McDonalds Corporation, ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force Committee
• McKinsey & Company (Partner Jeffrey Lane, Private Enterprise Board Member 2008)
• McMoRan Exploration Company (“exploration, development and production of oil and natural gas offshore in the Gulf of Mexico and onshore in the Gulf Coast area… focused on the ‘deep gas play,’ drilling to depths of 15,000 to 25,000 feet… and on the ‘ultra-deep gas play’ below 25,000 feet,”), “Vice Chairman” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Merck^[16], “Trustee” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Micron Technology (semiconductor company),
• MV Verisol (motor vehicle insurance verification company

• Norfolk Southern, “Trustee” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Northwestern Energy (“one of the largest providers of electricity and natural gas in the northwest quadrant of the United State)
• Novartis, given ALEC’s 2011 Private Sector Member of the Year Award^[23]
• NV Energy, Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force member

• OptumInsight (previously Ingenix, which was a wholly owned subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group and was sued for fraud by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo in 2008 and “agreed to put $350 million into a class-action restitution fund to pay physicians and policyholders for services provided by out-of-network providers. The Optum health service businesses have a new name but are still subsidiaries of UnitedHealth Group.),

• Parquet Public Affairs (Orlando, Washington and New York PR firm)
• Peabody Energy, Private Enterprise Board member, 2011 winner of ALEC’s Private Sector Member of the Year Award and “Chairman” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Pfizer Inc., Private Enterprise Board member, State corporate co-chair of Colorado, Nebraska and Wisconsin^[3] and “Vice Chairman” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Pinnacle West Capital
• Progress Energy, State corporate co-chair of South Carolina

• QEP Resources (“natural gas and oil exploration and production company”^[46]), “Director” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference

• Reed Elsevier, Inc.
• Reynolds American, Private Enterprise Board member, recipient of ALEC’s 2011 Private Sector Member of the Year Award, “President” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Robert Huff Designs (manufacturer of State, County, and City seals),

• Salt River Project, Private Enterprise Board member
• Sanofi/Sanofi-Aventis, “Vice Chairman” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• SAP America, awarded ALEC’s 2011 Private Sector of the Year Award
• Shell Oil Company, ALEC Civil Justice Task Force member, “Chairman” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Spectra Energy (natural gas infrastructure company), “Trustee” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• State Farm Insurance Co., Private Enterprise Board member, recipient of ALEC’s 2011 Private Sector Member of the Year Award and “Chairman” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• State Net (private company reporting on state legislation, with clients including “five of the nation’s ten largest companies”), “Director” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference

• Takeda Pharmaceutical (global pharmaceutical company based in Japan, recipient of ALEC’s 2011 State Chair of the Year Award, “President” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Taser International Inc. (stun gun maker), ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force member
• Thomson Reuters Accelus (created by the Thomson Corporation’s purchase of Reuters in 2008),
• Time Warner, “Director” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• TogetherRX Access (an LLC with 18 pharmaceutical member corporations), “Vice Chairman” level sponsor at 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Gulf States Toyota, “Director” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference

• Unilever (owner of Axe deodorant, Dove soap, Pond’s cold cream, Suave shampoo, Vaseline petroleum jelly, Signal toothpaste, Surf laundry soap, Slim Fast weight loss foods, Lipton tea, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Breyers ice cream, and Country Crock margarine),
• Union Pacific Corporation, “Trustee” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• UnitedHealthcare, “Chairman” level sponsor of and exhibitor at 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• United Parcel Service (UPS), Private Enterprise Board member, Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force Executive Committee member
• UPS Airlines,

• Verizon Communications, Inc., Private Enterprise Board member
• Visa, “Chairman” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference and sponsor of the Plenary Session of FreedomWorks‘ Dick Armey

• Walgreens, “Trustee” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Wal-Mart Stores, “Chairman” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• WellPoint, “Director” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• The Williams Company (natural gas company),

• Xcel Energy, State corporate co-chair of Wisconsin

• YUM! Brands (owner of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Long John Silver’s and A&W), State corporate co-chair of Kentucky and Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force Labor and Business Regulation Subcommittee member

Law Firms

• Adams and Reese LLP (law firm in the southern United States and Washington, D.C.),
• Avenson, Oakley & Cope (Iowa lobbying firm
• Bryan Cave (St. Louis, MO law firm
• Capital Connections, LLC (Vermont lobbying firm,
• The Capitol Group (Louisiana lobbying firm representing Reed Elsevier’s Lexis-Nexis,
• Casteel and Roberts (Austin, TX lobbying firm
• Hamilton Consulting Group (Wisconsin lobbying firm
• Hein Law Firm (Kansas law and lobbying firm,
• Jim Dunlap Consultants (Oklahoma lobbying firm
• Jones Walker (law firm in the Gulf South
• Lindsay, Hart, Neil & Weigler LLP (Oregon law and lobbying firm),
• Mullikin Law Firm (South Carolina law firm
• Nelson, Mullins, Riley and Scarborough (a nationwide law and lobbying firm),
• NH Government Solutions Group, LLC (New Hampshire lobbying firm
• Nickles Group (Washington, D.C. lobbying firm with clients including Bristol-Myers Squibb, CIGNA Corporation, Comcast, Eli Lilly and Company, Exxon Mobil and Monsanto
• Preti Flaherty (Maine law and lobbying firm
• Roedel, Parsons, Koch, Blache, Balhoff & McCollister (Louisiana law and lobbying firm^[74]
• Serlin Haley, LLP (Boston public law firm
• Southern Strategy Group (division of US Strategy Group, network of lobbying firms
• TE Williams & Associates LLC (Louisiana lobbying firm
• Vogel Law Firm (a North Dakota and Minnesota law and lobbying firm

 

ALEC Board of Scholars:

• Kay Coles James - President and Founder of the Gloucester Institute; and formerly Senior Fellow and Director of “The Citizenship Project” at the Heritage Foundation, Dean of the School of Government at Regent University, Secretary of Health and Human Resources for former Virginia Governor George Allen (where she implemented Virginia’s controversial welfare reform initiative), Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management during George W. Bush‘s administration, Senior Vice President of the Family Research Council, Associate Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during George H.W. Bush‘s administration, member of the National Commission on Children during Ronald Reagan‘s administration, and Boardmember of Focus on the Family

• Arthur B. Laffer - Inventor of the “Laffer Curve,” often called “the father of supply-side economics,” Co-chair of the Policy Council for the Free Enterprise Fund, a lobbying organization founded by Stephen Moore and other Club for Growth members;  and formerly member of the Economic Policy Advisory Board during Ronald Reagan‘s administration and active in his 1980 and 1984 presidential campaigns, and Chief Economist at the Office of Management and Budget during Richard Nixon‘s administration

• Stephen Moore - Founder of the Club for Growth and member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board^[8] who has been called “a voodoo economist”;^[9] and formerly: Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, senior economist at the Joint Economic Committee under Chairman Dick Armey (TX) and Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Budgetary Affairs at the Heritage Foundation.^[10]

• Victor Schwartz - Partner at the Washington D.C. offices of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP — a law and lobbying firm that has represented big tobacco companies such as Philip Morris (now Altria Group), big pharmaceutical companies such as Bristol-Myers Squibb and GlaxoSmithKline, and big technology companies such as Sprint Nextel, Microsoft and Sony. He has been very active in the arena of tort reform and has been called “the undisputed king of tort reform and considered one of Washington, D.C.’s 50 top lobbyists; Formerly a lawyer and lobbyist at Crowell & Moring for 21 years; Director of the Federal Insurance Administration from 1978-1980, and a professor and dean at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.^[

• Richard Vedder - Economics professor at Ohio University, and Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute and theAmerican Enterprise Institute; and formerly a commentator for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy on such issues as spending on public schools,^[ , for the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution on issues such as immigration and labor, and Board member of the National Taxpayers Union.

• Bob Williams - Founder and Senior Fellow of the Freedom Foundation-- previously known as the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, a libertarian organization whose mission "is to advance individual liberty, free enterprise, and limited, accountable government"--^[23] Board Member of the State Policy Network and a “visiting fellow” at the Mercatus Center; and formerly an auditor for the Pentagon and Post Office, and a five term state legislator in Washington State.

 

Not-For-Profit Organizations

• Alliance Defense Fund,
• American Civil Rights Institute and Coalition,
• American Enterprise Institute
• American Federation for Children, “Trustee” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• American Principles Project, ALEC Education Task Force member
• American Stewards of Liberty (a private property rights organization)
• Americans for Tax Reform,
• Americans United for Life (pro-life advocacy group),

• Better Education for Kids (B4K) (a 501(c)4 advocacy group whose tax exempt status was revoked by the IRS June 9, 2011) – Derrell Bradford, Executive Director, spoke on “Enacting a Comprehensive K-12 Education Reform Agenda” at the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting

• Capitol Commission (a non-profit that “exists… to be a vehicle of God in transforming the hearts and lives of elected officials with the gospel of Jesus Christ”),
• Cato Institute,
• Center for Competitive Politics, Public Safety and Elections Task Force Executive Committee member
• Center for Security Policy,
• Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force member
• Citizens in Charge
• Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation,

• European Conservatives and Reformists (“multinational grouping of 56 Members of the European Parliament”),

• Family Research Council,
• Florida Justice Reform Association, ALEC Civil Justice Task Force member
• Foundation for Excellence in Education (a Florida 501(c)3 focusing on education reform -
• Foundation for Fair Civil Justice^[22]
• Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, “Vice Chairman” level sponsor of and exhibitor at 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Fraser Institute Global Resource Center’, ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force member
• Freedom Foundation, Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force and Public Safety and Elections Task Force member^[24] and recipient of ALEC’s 2011 Private Sector Member of the Year Award
• Free State Foundation (think tank promoting free markets, limited government and rule of law principles in telecommunications and information technology policy) -
• Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice,

• Heartland Institute^[28], Telecommunications and Information Technology Task Force member, Education Task Force member, Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force Financial Services Subcommittee member and Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force member
• Heritage Foundation,

• Illinois Policy Institute ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force member
• Independence Institute, ALEC International Relations Task Force member
• Innosight Institute (in its own words, “a not-for-profit, non-partisan think tank whose mission is to apply Harvard Business School Professor Clayton M. Christensen’s theories of disruptive innovation to develop and promote solutions to the most vexing problems in the social sector”), ALEC Education Task Force member
• Institute for Energy Research, ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force member
• Institute for Justice, ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force member
• Institute for Policy Innovation
• International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Utility Department -
• Iowans for Tax Relief (lobbying group, PAC and foundation),

• Lumina Foundation for Education (“private, independent foundation… committed to enrolling and graduating more students from college”), “Chairman” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference

• Mackinac Center for Public Policy
• Mercatus Center at George Mason University,

• National Association of Charter School Authorizers, ALEC Education Task Force member
• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, Education Task Force member
• National Organization for Marriage,
• National Popular Vote (a non-partisan 501(c)(4) devoted to guaranteeing the presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states while retaining the Electoral College; ALEC has published model legislation specifically opposed to the national popular vote, but in August 2011 hosted a debate on “Electoral College v. National Popular Vote”), ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force member
• National Rifle Association, former co-chair of ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force in 2011, “Vice Chairman” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (the lobbying arm of the NRA),
• National Right to Life Committee, Inc. (the largest anti-abortion organization in the U.S.),
• National Right to Work Committee,
• National Taxpayers Union

• Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, ALEC Education Task Force member

• Prison Fellowship Ministries
• ProFamily Legislative Network (a subdivision of David Barton‘s WallBuilders),

• Reason Foundation, ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force and Telecommunications and Information Technology Task Force member
• The Republican Legislative Campaign Committee (dedicated exclusively to electing more Republicans to state legislatures),
• RestoringFreedom.org, Inc. (Texas nonprofit corporation proposing a Constitutional amendment “which imposes economic discipline to stop our decline into economic failure, and makes our government more accountable, open, and transparent”Trustee” level sponsor of and exhibitor at 2011 ALEC Annual Conference

• Science and Public Policy Institute, ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force member
• Solar Alliance (“works with state administrators, legislators and utilities to establish cost effective solar policies”),
• State Budget Solutions,
• State Policy Network, “Chairman” level sponsor of and exhibitor at 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• Stop Child Predators, Corporate Co-chair

• Tax Foundation, ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force member
• Texas Public Policy Foundation

• United Services Automobile Association (“a diversified financial services group of companies [providing] financial planning, insurance, investments and banking products to members of the U.S. military and their families”), “Trustee” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference

• Walton Family Foundation, “Chairman” level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference
• WallBuilders (founded by “Christian historical revisionist” David Barton),
• Washington Policy Center Public Safety and Elections Task Force member
• Where’s the Line America? Foundation,

• Youth Villages,