The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is back in the news, and not in a good way for the organization. The flow of defectors from ALEC has slowed of late, but now a major company, Amazon, is parting ways with the extreme, far-right legislation mill.Amazon.com announced Thursday that it will not renew membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council'a conservative group that has drafted controversial gun, voting and immigration laws'due to "public concerns."The company held a shareholders meeting today, where a coalition of organizations, including People For the American Way, ColorOfChange.org, CREDO Mobile, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, SumOfUs and Fuse Washington, delivered more than 500,000 petition signatures asking the company to leave ALEC. They were obviously heard.
Amazon's defection makes the news that Scantron Corporation, a $200 million for-profit educational testing and online tutoring company (they make bubble sheets for standardized tests, too), has left ALEC. A little less exciting, but still. It is officially the fifteenth corporation, and the seventeeth organization, to abandon ship. Drip, drip, drip.
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