Press on ALEC Exposed

• The Daily News Journal, "Stockard: Purity of ballot box or just pure politics with Voter ID?"

• Common Blog, "Money, Power and the American Legislative Exchange Council"

• Al Jazeera English, "Vote suppression in the US revs up"

• The Nation, "ALEC EXPOSÉ WINS SIDNEY AWARD"

• Maine’s Majority, "Rep. Andre Cushing Billed Taxpayers $2,100 for ALEC Travel Expenses"

• The Maine Public Broadcasting Network, "Same-Day Voter Advocates: Maine a Pawn in National Voting Restriction Campaign"

• Bangor Daily News, "ALEC’s influence should be call to citizen vigilance"

• Bangor Daily News, "American Legislative Exchange Council’s long arm reaching into Maine policy"

• Orlando Weekly, "Hiding the Sausage"

• AlterNet, "Scott Walker and the GOP Reveal Depth of Their Voter-Exclusion Plan"

• Daily Kos, "ALEC Exposed wins Sidney Award for Excellence in Socially Conscious Journalism"

• The American Independent, "ALEC corporations pay big to Congress"

• Big Think, "ALEC: EXPOSED" WINS SEPTEMBER SIDNEY AWARD"

• Nashville Scene, "Jim Cooper and Dick Durbin Rap Voter ID and ALEC"

• Open Secrets, "Corporations Represented on ALEC's Private Enterprise Board Are Big Spenders in Washington"

• George Mason University’s History News Network, "The War on Higher Education"

• In These Times, "GOP reveal depth of its voter-exclusion plan"

• Rolling Stone, "Congress Investigated GOP War on Voting"

• The Progressive, "Inside the ALEC Dating Service"

• The Kansas City Star, "Momentum grows to swap income tax for sales tax in states"

• Portland Phoenix, "LePage’s Koch Brothers connection revealed"

• Merge Left, "Massive Southwest power outage may shine light on corporate ALEC backer"

• Daily Kos, "ANNOUNCEMENT: Looking For Feedback on Anti-ALEC/Koch Progressive led Bus Tour this Fall"

• Portland Phoenix, "LePage’s Koch Brothers connection revealed"

• New Jersey Newsroom: Gov. Christie and Koch brothers share anti-environment agenda"

• Campus Progress, "New Evidence of ALEC Connections in All Successful Voter ID Legislation"

• Truthout, "Remembering the Moment Our CEO’s Dug In"

• Truthout, "Taking Back Labor Day"

• Uprising Radio, "ALEC Annual Meeting Censors Journalists, Lays Out Corporate Agenda"

• Daily Kos, "ALEC's creepy influence in Wisconsin (with recall angle!)"

• Keystone Progress, "Rep. Matthew Baker Threatens Citizen Activists for Exposing His Ties to Corporate Lobbyists"

• PolicyMic, "Corporations Have Stranglehold On U.S. Politics"

• North Carolina's WRAL TV, "Behind the Bill: ALEC and Tort Reform"

• CT News Junkie, "No Jane, It’s Not Baldwin"

• Rolling Stone, "The GOP War on Voting"

• The Moderate Voice, "Courtesy Of The GOP, Jim Crow Is Back In A National Voter Suppression Campaign"

• The Arizona Republic, "Arizona prison businesses are big political contributors"

• Athens News, "US lawmakers and corporations join in unholy alliance"

• Tampa Bay Online, "Scott, state lawmakers make today a dark day"

• Salem News, "'ALEC', UN-Elected, Writing U.S. Legislation Under Koch-Influenced Direction In Many States Costly 'Hidden-Tunnel Operation'"

• Progressive States Network, "2011 Health Care Roundup: Despite Opposition, States Move Forward on ACA, Look to Strengthen Health Security for All"

• The Michigan View, "Halloween Danger Comes Early: Smart ALEC’s Concept of a Nasty Trick or Treat"

• Campus Progress, "Voter ID Laws 101"

• The Raw Story, "AT&T bought more than 700 copies of Rick Perry’s book"

• The Florida Independent, ALEC ‘Guide to Repealing ObamaCare’ echoes Florida legislative action"

• Campus Progress, "Rep. Lewis: Voter ID ‘A Poll Tax by Another Name’"

• NMPolitics, "Public Education and the Tentacles of Profit"

• The Thom Hartmann Program, "Thom Hartmann & State Represenative Mark Pocan: ALEC exposed in New Orleans. 5 August '11"

• Don't Frack with NY!, "Lisa Graves Sheds Light on ALEC’s Fracking Agenda"

• IPS News, "‘Profiteers of Misery’: The U.S. Private Prison Industrial Complex"

• Daily Kos, "Koch/ALEC...attacks upon public education. Looking deep into the Rabbit Hole"

• Forbes, "Elite Privilege and the Prison-Industrial Complex"

• The Public Record, "America’s Day Of Rage Is Coming, And It’s Just The Beginning"

• Greenpeace, "The Lewis Powell Memo - Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy"

• Anchorage Daily News, "Our view: Suite life; who pays?"

• Kansas City Star, "Bait-and-switch tax shift could hurt many people"

• Charlotte Observer, "Tillis enjoys defending his record"

• TechZone360, "Politicians, Corporations Turn to ALEC to Find Policy Solutions"

• Concord Monitor, "Who's behind those crazy bills?"

• American Independent, "ALEC may have violated Minnesota campaign finance ruling"

• Kansas City Star, "Government by proxy serves lazy lawmakers"

• Minnesota Independent, "Experts say ALEC should register as Minnesota lobbyist"

• The American Independent, "ALEC balks after experts say it should register as Minnesota lobbyist"

• Orlando Sentinel, "Lawmakers should open up about ALEC"

• The Morning Call, "Politics as Usual"

• Times Standard, "As It Stands: Meet ALEC: a wolf in sheep's clothing"

• Cleveland.com, "Corporate influence over state lawmakers and legislation undermines individual rights and voices"

• The Wichita Eagle, "State lawmakers outsourcing duties to ALEC"

• PoliticsPA, "Keystone Progress vs. ALEC"

• Madison.com, "How the ALEC corporate bill mill works"

• AZ Central, "Arizona group will fight visit from ALEC"

• Think Progress, "VIDEO: Corporate Lobbyist Concedes He Does Not Always Register As A Lobbyist For ALEC Bills He Helps Write"

• Nashua Telegraph, "Voter ID Legislation Politically Motivated"

• TampBay.com, "Rep. Randolph seeks opinion on gift-ban exemption"

• Sun Sentinel, "Stealth ALEC courts Tallahassee Republican lawmakers"

• Knoxville Metro Post, "Local Legislators in ALEC"

• Salt Lake Tribune, "Utah lawmakers, lobbyists, go on the road"

• Minnesota Post, "Getting lawmakers on the record about ALEC"

• Idaho Mountain Express, "States’ legislation packaged and promoted by big business"

• Madison Capital Times, "Brendan Fischer: CO2 is good for you, and other ALEC talking points"

• Bloomberg, "Pro-Gun Group’s Call to Sell Seized Weapons Advances to States"

• Dane 101, "Wisconsin to NOLA: Rep. Pocan kicked out of ALEC event; ThinkProgress reporters accosted"

• Orlando Sentinel, "It's tough to sugarcoat Florida politicians' shenanigans"

• Think Progress, "Top Companies Claim To Fight Global Warming, But Sponsor ALEC’s Climate Denial"

• Ohio Public Radio, "Who Writes Ohio’s Legislation?"

• The Nation, "Students Take on ALEC"

• Knoxville News, "House Speaker Harwell stops payment for some out-of-state legislator travel"

• Bloomberg, "Industry gets in on writing laws"

• Capital Times, "Profit motive underlies outbreak of immigration bills"

• Lawrence Journal, "Corporate-funded ALEC has strong ties to Kansas Legislature"

• American Independent, "ALEC model legislation echoes TPPF, Perry-backed higher ed reforms in Texas"

• ProPublica, "Our Step-By-Step Guide to Understanding ALEC’s Influence on Your State Laws"

• PR Watch, "Big Business Woos ALEC Legislators in the Big Easy"

• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Lawmakers rapped over model bills prepared by business"

• Common Cause, "Legislating Under the Influence: Money, Power, and the American Legislative Exchange Council"

• The Nation, "The Hidden History of ALEC and Prison Labor"

• Miami Herald, "Taxpayers on hook for lawmakers’ New Orleans trip"

• The Progressive, "ALEC Watch: What I did on my Summer Vacation"

• Think Progress, "Perry’s Legislative Agenda Bears Strong Resemblance To ALEC’s Corporate-Backed Model Bills"

• Think Progress, "At Koch's Conference: 'The Many Benefits of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment"
• Journal Courier, States press for a constitutional amendment"

• PR Watch, "ALEC Model Bills Create Hardship for Average Americans"

• Minnesota Independent, "Kiffmeyer: 30 Minnesota legislators are ALEC members"

• Racine Journal Times, "Rep. Vos heading to New Orleans for ALEC convention; local progressives call group concerning"

• Bloomberg, "Wal-Mart Joins Amazon to Pitch State Law for Tax Benefit Plan"

• PR Watch, "Journalist Kicked out of ALEC Conference, Threatened With Arrest"

• American Independent, "Texas tobacco tax law matches ALEC model legislation introduced in other states"

• Tuscon Citizen, "Arizonans want legislators to reject gifts"

• The Nation, "Right-Wing Billionaires Invest in Wisconsin's Recall Elections to Save School Privatization Agenda"

• River Front Times, "Corporate Interest Group Accused of Writing Missouri Laws"

• St. Louis Beacon, "Progressives target national legislative organization behind many state proposals"

• St. Louis Dispatch, "Free-market group draws criticism for potential role in bills"

• Slate, "The ALEC Wars Escalate"

• MSNBC asks CMD's Lisa Graves "Who's in charge of America?"

• Reno News & Review on ALEC scrutiny

• Philadelphia City Paper on State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe's ALEC connections

• Salon on ALEC, a "A taxpayer-supported campaign against Big Government"

• The Portland Phoenix on Maine Governor Paul LePage's Copy-and-Paste Corporate Agenda

• FollowTheMoney on ALEC's active pursuit of state lawmakers

• NPR on ALEC and who really writes state legislation

• Bloomberg on ALEC, Koch, and Exxon

• The Isthmus on CMD's potentially "world changing" document leak

• ProPublica on release of ALEC documents

• DBAPress on the mechanics of the ALEC scholarship fund

• John Nichols and Julie Underwood segment on Majority Report Radio

• Death & Taxes on ALECexposed.org

• LJWorld on ALEC media reports

• Milwaukee Area Labor Council on rise of ALEC reports in media

• Truthout on ALEC and the Koch brothers

• Huffington Post on ALEC and Milton Friedman

• Ms. Magazine on the ALEC threat to healthcare

• The Nation on calls for an IRS investigation into ALEC

• LA Times on Common Cause's call for ALEC IRS probe

• AFL-CIO on spotlight aimed at ALEC

• Fire Dog Lake on ALEC Exposé

• Greenpeace on ALEC's Dirty Secrets

• Dane 101 on CMD's ALEC document bomb

• Salon on ALEC: Match.com for industry lobbyists

• The Progressive on ALEC Exposed

• Daily Kos on Getting to Know ALEC

• LA Times on ALEC

• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on ALEC in Wisconsin

• In These Times on ALEC "Publicopoly"

Reports Connecting State Legislation to ALEC Model Bills

• ProgressMissouri tracks ALEC model legislation as it moves through the State Capitol

• Granite State Progress on ALEC Right to Work model legislation in New Hampshire

• Talking Points Memo on why the "Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011" looks a lot like ALEC model legislation

• The Charleston Gazette on ALEC's influence in West Virginia

• Bdgrdemocracy on ALEC prevailing wage law legislation in Wisconsin

• The Rochester Citizen on ALEC legislation in Michigan

• New Hampshire Labor News on ALEC bills in New Hampshire government

• Texas Prison Bid'ness on prison privatization

• Bold Nebraska on ALEC's war on voting

• Knoxville News Sentinel on ALEC school legislation in Tennessee