ALEC Wants You To Pay 750 Percent More For High-Speed Internet

The corporate front group may change its social policy stance, but it still plans on robbing you blind.

By Zaid Jilani, Republic Report
Posted on April 18, 2012, Printed on April 21, 2012

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is the most powerful corporate front group you’ve never heard of. Drawing the vast majority of its financing from big corporations, the group allows these firms to help write bills that it then secretly passes off to state legislators to get turned into laws.

The organization has come under fire recently for backing “Stand Your Ground” laws and voter suppression efforts, leading to an exodus of some of its strongest corporate funders. But the group’s policy agenda stretches far beyond these areas, and impacts just about every area of American life.