Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Six More Corporations Dump ALEC; 38 Companies Have Now Cut Ties with Corporate Bill Mill

Six More Corporations Dump ALEC; 38 Companies Have Now Cut Ties with Corporate Bill Mill
"Corporations that have publicly cut ties to ALEC since the launch of ALECexposedand related public interest campaigns include Amgen, General Motors, Walgreens, Best Buy, Hewlett-Packard, MillerCoors, John Deere, Dell, Johnson & Johnson, Wal-Mart, Amazon.com, Procter & Gamble, Mars, Wendy's, McDonald's, Kraft Foods, PepsiCo, and Coca-Cola. The addition of GE, Western Union, Sprint, Symantec, Reckitt Benckiser, and Entergy brings the total to 38. Four non-profits -- Lumina Foundation for Education, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS), and the Gates Foundation -- and 70 state legislators have also cut ties with ALEC."