sprint-joins-ge-in-leaving-policy-group-backing-voter-id

[garthranzz]

Source: Business Week



General Electric Co. (GE) and Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) joined the exodus of companies from the American Legislative Exchange Council following the group’s support of voter-identification and self-defense laws.

Spokesmen for both companies said today they are ending their membership with the Washington-based public policy organization, which charged corporations up to $25,000 and allowed them to help write bills that some lawmakers then tried to enact in their home states.

A spokeswoman for Fairfield, Connecticut-based GE, Lindsay Lorraine, said the company left ALEC “in connection with our ongoing review of the political and policy organizations we belong to.”

Overland Park, Kansas-based Sprint was solely involved in telecommunications issues with ALEC and participated on a communications task force “to ensure that Sprint’s voice is heard by state lawmakers,” said John Taylor, a spokesman.

Read more: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-08-27/sprint-joins-ge-in-leaving-policy-group-backing-voter-id-laws

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(So proud of my phone company, I called and complemented them. From Katrina to Isaac (I'm in New Orleans)

[Canuckistanian]

1. I love it

ALEC is becoming toxic to PR-sensitive corporations.

Keep up the pressure, it's working.

[southernyankeebelle]

2. Beware folks. A name change to another organization still is ALEC with a new name

[SoapBox]

7. Ditto

That is my feeling as well.

Companies are leaving this creepy group BUT...everyone needs to be on the look out for the new, better, and MORE hidden ALEC.

These slime bags cannot be trusted.

[cstanleytech]

8. No, they can be trusted.

To stab most of us in the back repeatedly and to twist the knife each time they stab us.

[southernyankeebelle]

11. There was a time you could be very proud to say you work at this place or that place. Not anymore.

With corporations only taking care of themselves and forget the employee. Your just a warm body.

[Chico Man]

3. Say all the bad things you want about GE

I have very good reason to think they are a fantastic American company with great employees

[Psephos]

6. Don't pay much in taxes, though. n/t

[Chico Man]

12. I wish (nt)

[cstanleytech]

4. Are any of these companies trying to reverse what they aided in ALEC doing though? nt

[defacto7]

5. good point

It would be advantageous to use ALEC for policy change then dump them when the iron gets hot. A cliché comes to mind, something about having and eating cake.

No finger pointing, just a thought.

[oldsarge54]

9. ALEC, and our friends the For Profit Prisons

You do know where all this rhetoric about illegal is illegal comes from? Yep, the for profit prison operators got with Arizona representatives, showed them the laws they needed and showered them with donations and advice on propaganda. Meanwhile, within the trade sharing ideas on a business model that was win win for them. Guilty or not, any latino they held was pure profit. No need to worry about medical or schooling, at most they would be "guests" for a few weeks, one way or another. A regrettable side effect was that their propaganda also set latinos up to play the part of the "jews" for the Tea Party fascists.

[dipsydoodle]

10. Oy !

You should use the title as per the link in LBN. Suggest you edit to remove your hyphens.