Cinq soci\u00e9t\u00e9s nationales et mondiales, dont General Electric, Western Union et Sprint Nextel, sont devenues les derniers g\u00e9ants du secteur \u00e0 rejoindre l'exode de l'American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).<\/p>
Les deux autres sont Symantec de Mountain View, Californie, et Reckitt Benckiser de Parsippany, New Jersey. General Electric est bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Fairfield, Connecticut, Western Union est \u00e0 Englewood, Colorado, et Sprint Nextel est \u00e0 Overland Park, Kansas.<\/p>
Their departures were announced Monday by the civil rights organization Color of Change, one of several groups which along with Common Cause have been working to expose ALEC's tax-subsidized lobbying on behalf of state laws that put private profit ahead of the public interest<\/p>
\"Clearly the light bulb has gone on at General Electric that ALEC's extreme agenda is not good for business,\" said Bob Edgar, president of Common Cause.<\/p>
Amid complaints from Common Cause and other reform groups, 38 companies have left ALEC in recent months. Common Cause has filed a \"tax whistleblower\" complaint against ALEC with the Internal Revenue Service, challenging the group's tax-exemption. ALEC casts itself as a charity, but Common Cause has provided the IRS with more than 4,000 pages of ALEC press releases, \"issue alerts,\" position papers and other materials documenting its lobbying activity.<\/p>"}}]},"yoast_head":"\n