ALEC responds

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From: "Adam Green, BoldProgressives.org" <info@boldprogressives.org>
Date: Apr 12, 2012 2:23 PM
Subject: ALEC responds
To: "Daniel Stafford" <aquarianm@gmail.com>

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Daniel, 

BIG NEWS: The right-wing ALEC organization issued a panicked response to our campaign to defund them.

After years of ALEC's coordinated attempt to ram voter-suppression and union-busting bills through states like Wisconsin, they accused progressives of running a "well-funded, expertly coordinated intimidation campaign...against corporate members of the organization."

This week, PCCC members aimed thousands of calls (and Tweets) at ALEC's funders -- and won. We're also preparing ads and events at corporate headquarters to pressure more of them.

Can you help this "expertly coordinated" accountability campaign be truly well funded? Donate $3 today.

Our friends at ColorOfChange made huge news last week by pressuring Coke to no longer fund ALEC. We joined the fight Monday, and after a day of massive pressure got the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to pledge no future ALEC funding! 

McDonald's, Wendy's, Intuit, Kraft, and Pepsi have now made similar announcements -- and we're working with ColorOfChange to pressure AT&T, Johnson & Johnson, and others.

But let's be clear. This is not intimidation. This is regular people rising up to take back our democracy. ALEC's voter-suppression and union-busting agenda simply can't withstand public scrutiny.

Click here to help the good guys keep winning. Donate $3 today.

Thanks for being a bold progressive.

-- Adam Green, Amanda Johnson, James Ploeser, Andrew Mayersohn, Karen Oelschlaeger, and the PCCC team

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