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D I D Y O U K N O W ? Corporations VOTED to adopt this. Through ALEC, global companies
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work as “equals” in “unison” with politicians to write laws to govern your life. Big
“ALEC”
has MEMBERS
long been a
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EVENTS & MEETINGS
MODEL LEGISLATION
TASK FORCES
INITIATIVES
Business has
“a VOICE and a VOTE,”
accordingALEC
to newly
exposedPUBLICATIONS
documents. DO YOU?
secretive
NEWS collaboration
Did you know the NRA--the
between Big Business and
National Rifle Association-Home
Model Legislation
Public Safety and Elections
“conservative”
politicians.
Model Legislation
was the corporate co-chair in
Behind
closed doors, they
Civil Justice
2011?
ghostwrite “model” bills to
Commerce,
Insurance,
Mandatory
Sentencing
for
Repeated
Felony
Theft
From
a Retail
be introduced in state
andacross
Economic
Store Act
capitols
the country.
Development
This agenda--underwritten
by global
corporations-Education
includes major tax
Energy,
loopholes
forEnvironment,
big industries
Section 1. Any person convicted of felony theft from a retail store, who within the
and Agriculture
and the super rich,
immediately preceding four years was twice convicted of felony theft from a retail store,
proposals
to Relations
offshore U.S.
shall be sentenced to at least the minimum term provided for such offense.
Federal
jobs and gut minimum
and Human
wage,Health
and efforts
to
Services
weaken public health,
Section 2. A person convicted under this section shall not be eligible for probation or
suspension of sentence.
safety,
and environmental
International
Relations
protections. Although many
Public
of these
billsSafety
have and
become
Elections
law, until now, their origin
has been
largely
unknown.
Tax and
Fiscal
Policy
Adopted by ALEC's Criminal Justice Task Force at the States and Nation Policy Summit
With ALEC EXPOSED, the
December 11, 2003. Approved by full ALEC Board of Directors January, 2004.
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ALEC’s’Corporate Board
--in recent past or present

• AT&T Services, Inc.
• centerpoint360
• UPS
• Bayer Corporation
• GlaxoSmithKline
• Energy Future Holdings
• Johnson & Johnson
• Coca-Cola Company
• PhRMA
• Kraft Foods, Inc.
• Coca-Cola Co.
• Pfizer Inc.
• Reed Elsevier, Inc.
• DIAGEO
• Peabody Energy
• Intuit, Inc.
• Koch Industries, Inc.
• ExxonMobil
• Verizon
• Reynolds American Inc.
• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
• Salt River Project
• Altria Client Services, Inc.
• American Bail Coalition
• State Farm Insurance
For more on these corporations,
search at www.SourceWatch.org.