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  1. ALEC’s Annual Meeting Queues Up Fights Over Federal Powers, Fossil Fuels, Big Tech, Labor Rights, and the GOP’s Culture Wars

    ... The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is holding its first post-Trump in-person meeting this week in Salt Lake ... longer than necessary. ALEC is also introducing another preemption model bill around plastics, the  Act to Establish Statewide ...

    News Article - David Armiak - Aug 2 2021 - 4:00pm - 0 comments

  2. ALEC and GOP Push Corporate Immunity From COVID-19 Workplace Illnesses and Deaths

    ... The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has long  fought  for restrictions on individuals' right to sue in ... held liable." The conditions traditionally required for preemption of state liability law are all absent here. Congress has displaced ...

    News Article - Don Wiener - Aug 6 2020 - 4:22pm - 0 comments

  3. ALEC Exploits Pandemic to Push Right-Wing Policy Goals at Annual Meeting

    ... The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) takes its Annual Meeting online this week to exploit the coronavirus ... Confederacy, with prison sentences of up to 10 years. Preemption of Local Employment Policies ALEC has long been circulating ...

    News Article - David Armiak - Jul 16 2020 - 4:27pm - 0 comments

  4. ALEC’s Post-Janus Wishlist Revealed in Policy Document

    ... agenda of the  American Legislative Exchange Council  (ALEC), a corporate lobby front group, to further weaken public sector unions in ... bills  and the anti-democratic  Living Wage Mandate Preemption Act , which prevents cities and counties from setting higher ...

    News Article - David Armiak - Apr 20 2020 - 5:43pm - 0 comments

  5. Coke, Pepsi Drop Trade Association Pushing Plastic Ban Bans

    ... on the seriousness of their efforts. PIA Partners with ALEC PIA has spent millions opposing local plastic bag bans and works ... best arbiter of the (plastic) container." ALEC's Model Preemption Bill ALEC took its opposition to local bag bans one step further ...

    News Article - David Armiak - Aug 5 2019 - 9:29am - 0 comments

  6. New Report Documents Pervasive Influence of ALEC in Texas

    ... influence of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in Texas. The report comes as ALEC prepares to hold its Annual Meeting in ... year to criminalize protest; Expansion of the state's preemption of local gun safety regulations; A 2019 attempt to preempt local ...

    News Article - PRWatch Editors - Aug 13 2019 - 8:07am - 0 comments

  7. Reporters Memo: Coke and Pepsi Play Hardball in Attempt to Prevent the Spread of Soda Taxes

    ... frame the tax as an unfair, unnecessary "grocery tax." Preemption Strategy to Defeat Soda Taxes Borrowed from Big Tobacco ... popularized by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has peddled a "Super-Majority Act" for decades, is now ...

    News Article - PRWatch Editors - Oct 17 2018 - 9:50am - 0 comments

  8. Index of PRWatch Articles About ALEC

    ... country here on PRWatch.org. A list of CMD's reporting on ALEC is provided below. CMD's team also pitches stories to major ... on Restaurant Cash, Democratic Lawmakers Float Minimum Wage Preemption in IL" (November 18, 2014) Brendan Fischer, "MO ALEC Leader ...

    Page - PRWatch Editors - Aug 20 2018 - 9:40am

  9. ALEC Sets the Table for Gerrymandering, Union Busting, Protecting Fossil Fuels, and Privatizing Schools

    ... When the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) convenes its 45th annual meeting of legislators and corporate lobbyists ... ALEC will also be reviewing a 2012 policy calling for the preemption of local food and nutrition policy . Subsidizing Private ...

    News Article - Mary Bottari - Aug 7 2018 - 12:32pm - 0 comments

  10. Bills to Ban Local Soda Taxes Are Moving In the States, Coke and Pepsi Borrow from the Tobacco Playbook

    ... . Today, the majority of states have some type of tobacco preemption, twelve states preempt local smoke-free ordinances and eight ... research saying that the soda tax harms the economy. An ALEC legislator successfully preempted  local food and nutrition policies ...

    News Article - Mary Bottari - Apr 4 2018 - 8:03am - 0 comments

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