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The implicit message of this post, and of this campaign more broadly - viz., that we should support companies that have left ALEC – is deeply problematic. The reasoning seems to be, briefly, that membership in ALEC is the principal criterion of corporate malfeasance, and that corporations that abandon membership in and association with ALEC and its by-now uncontroversially malignant politics have done something positively “good”. Never mind that leaving a destructive organization that should never have been joined in the first instance, by other organizations that are themselves destructive, is hardly cause for celebrating let alone supporting the latter. “Better isn’t good if worse was terrible”. Yes, all else being equal, it's better that these companies left ALEC, but the majority are still objectionable for other reasons.