ALEC Petition Delivered to Alabama AG Strange

***Event: 10:00AM Thursday, June 14, 2012 at the Alabama Attorney General’s
Office in Montgomery, Alabama***

Petition To Be Delivered To The Office Of Alabama Attorney General Luther
Strange

Over 1,000 Signatures On Petition Calling For Alabama Attorney General To
Investigate American Legislative Exchange Council

A petition signed by over 1,000 people calling on Alabama Attorney General
Luther Strange to investigate the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) tax status and its compliance with Alabama’s lobbying laws.

ALEC has been at the center of a national controversy over laws it has promoted
such as “Stand Your Ground” legislation.

According to Teamster Nation, “Corporations that have publicly cut ties to ALEC
in recent weeks include, Scantron Corporation, Kaplan Higher Education, Procter
& Gamble, YUM! Brands, Blue Cross Blue Shield, American Traffic Solutions, Reed
Elsevier, Arizona Public Service, Mars, Wendy's, McDonald's, Intuit, Kraft
Foods, PepsiCo, and Coca-Cola. The addition of Amazon.com brings the total to
16. Four non-profits -- Lumina Foundation for Education, the National
Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), the National Board for
Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS), and the Gates Foundation -- and 54
state legislators have also cut ties with ALEC.”

Common Cause President Bob Edgar, whose organization has filed an Internal
Revenue Service Whistleblower Complaint against ALEC, has said, “ALEC is a
corporate lobby front group masquerading as a public charity.”  The idea for
this petition came from the Common Cause campaign to ask state attorney generals
to investigate ALEC.

The petition will remain active and will be delivered online to Attorney General
Strange’s office after this physical delivery. Please link any coverage to the
petition.

WHO: Alabama residents who have signed the petition

WHERE: Office of the Attorney General
501 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, AL 36104

WHEN: 10:00 AM, Thursday, June 14th, 2012

To read the petition go to: http://signon.org/sign/alabama-attorney-general