If you weren't sure before, you can be now: a corporate takeover is underway in this country, and its targeting our pocketbooks, our healthcare, schools in our communities and even our democracy.
Alarmist? Not if you look at the agenda of ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council. This secretive organization pairs up big business with state legislators to draft bills that put corporate profits ahead of the public interest.
Common Cause has been out front all summer exposing ALEC's business-first agenda, challenging its tax-exempt status as a public charity and shining a spotlight on the political money spent by its members.
We need your help to keep the pressure on companies that fund ALEC and the elected representatives who do the group's bidding. Let's take our democracy back!
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Let's look at the numbers:
* In the past 10 years, ALEC's corporate leaders have poured more than $370 million into state elections.
* Common Cause has documented ALEC spending in all 50 states, with California alone targeted by more than $204 million to block tobacco tax increases and other popular initiatives.
* An estimated 2,000 state legislators are dues-paying members of ALEC.
* 22 major corporations sit on its "private enterprise" board -- including Koch Industries.
* ALEC boasts that 180 of its model bills are enacted in at least one state each year.
* ALEC-supported legislation has made it harder to vote in 18 states so far.
Now please help us reach a different number: $50,000. That's what we need to receive a matching gift that will take our ALEC campaign to the next level.
We're already more than halfway there: Can you help put us over the top today?
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Let's stand and fight together, state-by-state and bill-by-bill, to save our democracy from corporate control.
Thanks for all you do,
Bob Edgar
and the rest of the team at Common Cause
P.S. Next week, Robert Reich (chairman of Common Cause's board) and I will be speaking at the Take Back the American Dream Conference. If you'll be in Washington, DC on October 3rd, 4th or 5th, I hope you'll join us there. If you can't be there in person, please check out our website where we'll have live streaming video from the conference.
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