We do not want to take away from them but we want them to stop taking the little that they have left us. We also want them out of running our nation and to return the democracy that we have a right to. Join our voice and demand that we the citizens our once again heard by our government. We need you, your heart and your ideas. ALEC is the American Legislative Exchange council, which is basically a
mechanism to get corporate friendly legislation passed in statehouses around the country, including Idaho. Records list Walgreens as a member of the ALEC task force writing legislation favorable to the health care industry (if not to health care consumers). We hope to encourage Walgreens to cut all ties with this secretive group. Here's a brief description of ALEC from http://www.alecexposed.org/
"ALEC is not a lobby; it is not a front group. It is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, behind closed doors, corporations hand state legislators the changes to the law they desire that directly benefit their bottom line. Along with legislators, corporations have membership in ALEC. Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to approve “model” bills. They have their own corporate governing board which meets jointly with the legislative board. (ALEC says that corporations do not vote on the board.) Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's operations. Participating legislators, overwhelmingly conservative Republicans, then bring those proposals home and introduce them in statehouses across the land as their own brilliant ideas and important public policy innovations—without disclosing that corporations crafted and voted on the bills. ALEC boasts that it has over 1,000 of these bills introduced by legislative members every year, with one in every five of them enacted into law. ALEC describes itself as a “unique,” “unparalleled” and “unmatched” organization. It is as if a state legislature had been reconstituted, yet corporations had pushed the people out the door."
