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To: ALEC member corporations
EXPOSED: Secretive group teaching politicians how to rig elections
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has spearheaded some of the most extreme, far-right laws passed over the last decade. And now, this corporate-backed lobby group is leading top secret workshops -- teaching GOP lawmakers how to rig the redistricting process, disenfranchise their opponents’ supporters, and keep themselves in power.
UPS, Pfizer, Anheuser-Busch, and other major companies must immediately cut ties with ALEC and stop funding the group’s attacks on our democracy.
Why is this important?
ALEC is ramping up its plans to hijack our democracy like never before. It’s time to expose and demand action from every corporation that’s funding these cynical efforts.
ALEC has formed a new secret working group focused on “redistricting, ballot measures, and election law.” This task force holds lectures by architects of some of the most notorious gerrymanders and voter suppression schemes of the last decade -- with one main goal: teaching corporate-friendly GOP politicians how to abuse our systems to stay in power.
How to rig the census and the redistricting process to keep Republican seats safe. How to stonewall fixes for the broken Electoral College. ALEC and its member corporations know just how unpopular and unethical these efforts are -- which is why there is no mention of the working group on its website.
This task force comes on the heels of ALEC’s infamous redistricting workshop, held at its annual meeting last year. Conservative lawmakers, thinkers, donors, and activists were invited -- and were told by panelists to treat redistricting as “political adult blood sport,” trash evidence of wrongdoing before it can be discovered through litigation, and buy off individual Black and Latinx legislators to guarantee them reelection in exchange for overall whiter and more conservative maps.
Make no mistake: THAT is what companies like UPS, Pfizer, Anheuser-Busch are endorsing with their financial support for ALEC. And they’re hoping that we don’t notice -- they don’t want to be publicly associated with ALEC’s extreme agenda.
But if they hear from thousands of outraged Americans, they may cancel their ALEC membership -- just like we convinced companies like AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon to do. Add your name now to become a part of the nationwide outcry.