Limang pambansa at pandaigdigang korporasyon, kabilang ang General Electric, Western Union at Sprint Nextel, ang naging pinakabagong corporate giants na sumali sa exodus mula sa American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).<\/p>
Ang dalawa pa ay sina Symantec ng Mountain View, Calif., at Reckitt Benckiser ng Parsippany, NJ. Ang General Electric ay nakabase sa Fairfield, Conn., ang Western Union ay nasa Englewood, Colo., at ang Sprint Nextel ay nasa Overland Park, Kan.<\/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