ProgressNow, a leader in the leftwing campaign against free-market
model legislation organization ALEC, is a shadowy organization funded by
millionaires, billionaires, and leftwing philanthropies with the intent
of expanding Democratic power.
Under pressure from ProgressNow and other groups, Johnson & Johnson is the latest in a string of large corporations to drop membership in the American Legislative Exchange Counsel (ALEC), a private-public partnership of state legislators and businesses that works to advance free-market legislation.
Most of ALEC’s initiatives focus on free-market and business issues, but it also has sponsored voter identification and self-defense laws that have drawn the ire of the left. Since January, a coalition of liberal groups has waged an intense campaign to dismantle ALEC by targeting its corporate sponsors, filing legal challenges, and using shareholder activism against it.
ProgressNow, a liberal non-profit organization, is one of the core groups waging the campaign against ALEC. As previously reported by the Free Beacon, ProgressNow was a featured group at a lunch forum held at the AFL-CIO headquarters in May to discuss the campaign.
“Never relent, never let up pressure, and always increase,” Aniello Alioto of ProgressNow Colorado said at the forum, summing up the group’s tactics.
Along with groups such as the Center for Media and Democracy and Color of Change, which was founded by former Obama green jobs czar and 9/11 Truther Van Jones, ProgressNow has participated in forums and panels dedicated to instructing liberals in how to reduce ALEC’s influence.
Read more: http://freebeacon.com/the-anti-alec-alliance/
Under pressure from ProgressNow and other groups, Johnson & Johnson is the latest in a string of large corporations to drop membership in the American Legislative Exchange Counsel (ALEC), a private-public partnership of state legislators and businesses that works to advance free-market legislation.
Most of ALEC’s initiatives focus on free-market and business issues, but it also has sponsored voter identification and self-defense laws that have drawn the ire of the left. Since January, a coalition of liberal groups has waged an intense campaign to dismantle ALEC by targeting its corporate sponsors, filing legal challenges, and using shareholder activism against it.
ProgressNow, a liberal non-profit organization, is one of the core groups waging the campaign against ALEC. As previously reported by the Free Beacon, ProgressNow was a featured group at a lunch forum held at the AFL-CIO headquarters in May to discuss the campaign.
“Never relent, never let up pressure, and always increase,” Aniello Alioto of ProgressNow Colorado said at the forum, summing up the group’s tactics.
Along with groups such as the Center for Media and Democracy and Color of Change, which was founded by former Obama green jobs czar and 9/11 Truther Van Jones, ProgressNow has participated in forums and panels dedicated to instructing liberals in how to reduce ALEC’s influence.
Read more: http://freebeacon.com/the-anti-alec-alliance/
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