{"id":29,"date":"2012-04-23T10:07:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T14:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gp.org\/NoVa\/?p=29"},"modified":"2020-03-14T12:47:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T16:47:08","slug":"alec-a-right-wing-think-tank-is-feeling-the-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fcg.vagreenparty.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/23\/alec-a-right-wing-think-tank-is-feeling-the-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"ALEC &#8211; a right wing think tank is feeling the heat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALEC is a corporate funded right wing think tank that writes model-legislation for its pet state legislators to push through. These laws result in: Voter suppression, weakened product safety laws, weakened environmental laws, and weakened labor laws. Basically, ALEC puts the CEO&#8217;s, Wall Street, and profit above everything else, every time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/campusprogress.org\/articles\/procter_gamble_pulls_from_alec_joining_12_other_companies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here is an important article<\/a> about how the public backlash against this naked corporate power grab is beginning to have an effect! Major corporations are abandoning ALEC. Lets keep up the pressure.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If officials at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) are superstitious, Monday was probably a pretty frightening day. The right-wing group that has helped advance voter suppression efforts lost its thirteenth major corporate back in just a few weeks and found itself facing a complaint filed with the Internal Revenue Service.<\/p>\n<p>Procter &amp; Gamble officials confirmed that they were not renewing their membership with ALEC in a statement to Color of Change, which has led a boycott against the group<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALEC is a corporate funded right wing think tank that writes model-legislation for its pet state legislators to push through. These laws result in: Voter suppression, weakened product safety laws, weakened environmental laws, and weakened labor laws. Basically, ALEC puts the CEO&#8217;s, Wall Street, and profit above everything else, every time. Here is an important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,62],"tags":[7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fcg.vagreenparty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fcg.vagreenparty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fcg.vagreenparty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fcg.vagreenparty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fcg.vagreenparty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fcg.vagreenparty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/fcg.vagreenparty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fcg.vagreenparty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fcg.vagreenparty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fcg.vagreenparty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}