Discussion for article #226655
Why were they involved with ALEC in the first place???
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about frigging time.
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And when did their involvement begin?
Google is associated with ALEC?
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It seems we need to start pressuring Google & FB.
Don’t be evil? Too late.
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“Google, Facebook, eBay, Yahoo” huh? It seems I may need to re-examine some of online activity.
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Really? Because now it affects their bottom line ,not because of ALEC’s negative impact on our democracy and individual constitutional freedoms.
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One piece at a time and we will break up the domestic terrorist organization in this country, called right wing politics.
It is full of ideologues holding on to their guns and bibles while spewing ignorance and hate. All money is not good money.
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Many large companies are beginning to see real ROI on green technologies and liberal hiring practices. The tax credits alone make it in the best financial interest of the company to abandon the knuckle-draggers at A.L.E.C. Add to that the PR benefits and the HR benefits and it makes FINANCIAL sense for them to dump ALEC.
They will, however, jump right back in bed with them if it is in their Financial interests to do so (like it was back in the 2000’s.)
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I’m more surprised that so many here are surprised. Link to list of corporations 
http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed
The push a couple of years back was to boycott these companies and some did resign - but often only temporarily. The 25-75K dues is not a big hit to Corps - gee AT&T supports ALEC and somehow found another $75K in their pocket to give to Greg Abbott (TX).
The only way to keep Companies from funding is constant pressure via email, etc. "How can you manage to spend $$$$ for ALEC while your stock price slumps and you are laying off employees. Just sayin.
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CNET linked Microsoft’s decision with ALEC’s bid to stop renewable energy projects. Microsoft has begun investing in renewable energy, including an announcement that it would run one of its data centers entirely with electricity produced by a wind farm in Texas.
Because as amoral entities, Corporations exist only to make money. Participating in ALEC makes that goal easier to achieve.
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How about that. They only ditch ALEC when they get caught. Power, money and influence continues to shape society when people just thing the corporation is being patriotic.
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That was ever only a tagline, not an actual goal. As for FB, they’re straight up dbags, they are fully onboard with with this stuff.
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Always enjoy the irony that they use that hippie co-op model for these things.
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Yes and that is not surprising. All those Tech companies here in Silicon Valley are just itching to get a lot of H1B visa cheap labor to make even more money. That is why they like ALEC so much. Tech companies are not liberal. Silicon Valley is not liberal.
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Smart, ALEC… Really smart.
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Unfortunately, because ALEC largely represents capital and not people, it can be folded up and reconstituted under a different name someday without much stress – maybe just a fee of some kind commensurate with the paperwork involved.
Not so much with ACORN.
Jim Sinegal has seen ROI with labor practices built to avoid constant personnel churn, too. Hasn’t resulted in widespread hiring/training/retention overhaul from the nation’s HR depts.
More of this…just like limpbow…take them down!