Common Blog

We hear a lot in the national news about the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), but the action happens in the state houses. In Colorado, we know ALEC is actively lobbying for fewer environmental protections, changes to our collective bargaining rights, and many other special interests. We’re going to hear about it tomorrow night from Elena Nunez, [...]

Even as they acknowledge and lament the public’s perception that theirs is the  party of “stuffy old men,” Republican leaders looked this week to give stuffy old men – or at least those with a lot of money — a larger and louder voice in their party and in American politics. The GOP’s “Growth and [...]

A pro-voter ID Delegate lets slip some of the elitist thinking behind the restrictive policy

Last year, no one besides partisans and wonks had even heard of ALEC, after an IRS whistleblower complaint, a front page article in the NY Times, and a whole lot of campaigning, they can’t hide for much longer.

The folks who call the shots at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) apparently are preparing a damage control defense on Common Cause’s complaint that ALEC is a lobby masquerading as a charity. After insisting for more than a year now that ALEC does no lobbying and that the donations that finance its work are [...]