Hold the pickles hold the lettuce McDonald jettisons ALEC too

[geefloyd46]

Add another name to the list of corporations who've ditched the American Legislative Exchange Council: McDonald's.

The fast food giant tells Mother Jones that it recently decided to cut ties with ALEC, the corporate-backed group that drafts pro-free-market legislation for state lawmakers around the country. "While [we] were a member of ALEC in 2011, we evaluate all professional memberships annually and made the business decision not to renew in 2012," Ashlee Yingling, a McDonald's spokeswoman, wrote in an email. Yingling didn't mention any specific campaign or outside pressure as playing a role in the company's decision to leave ALEC.

[link:http://laborspains.blogspot.com/2012/04/hold-pickles-hold-lettuce-mcdonald.html|

[tblue37]

1. "Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders don't upset us"--

That's Burger King's commercial!

[geefloyd46]

2. Is there really a difference?