Johnson & Johnson is leaving ALEC thanks to your activism.
Yesterday afternoon news broke that Johnson & Johnson is ending its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Over 2,200 members of CREDO reported making a call telling Johnson & Johnson to stop supporting ALEC because of its role in voter suppression.
Johnson & Johnson is now the most recent in a long list of companies and non-profits who have ended their affiliation with ALEC since we started our campaign, including Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Kraft Foods, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, McDonald's and Procter & Gamble.
But many major corporations are still funding ALEC. State Farm is one of them. State Farm's financial support of ALEC must end. Call State Farm and tell the corporation to stop supporting ALEC and voter suppression.
Thank you for standing up to corporate-funded attempts at voter suppression.
Political Director
CREDO Action from Working Assets
P.S. In response to the public outrage at their extremist agenda, ALEC announced it will shut down its 'Public Safety and Elections task force,' and claimed that ALEC would be focused on economic issues from now on. We believe that this is nothing more than a PR stunt that does nothing for the millions of Americans who could lose their right to vote due to ALEC's advocacy.
Another one bites the dust... State Farm is next....
Oh, you mean the company sold to Unilever? I don't know about the Unilever corporation and their company, but the founders, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, recently attempted to donate $1.8 million to Occupy Wall Street, along with Nirvana's former manager Danny Goldberg, through a not-for-profit 501c3 that has raised $300,000 and aims to distribute it to the protesters in a series of grants. "Many of us have been working for progressive social change," Ben Cohen told the Wall Street Journal. "There's been a critical ingredient missing."
You mean THAT Ben and Jerry's?
Representatives from the group met with Occupy Wall Street members on Sunday, and announced the plan to approve national grants of up to $25,000 with the approval of MRG and five OWS members. $150,000 will pay for a national office in New York, another $100,000 will pay for individual, targeted projects, and a smaller, undisclosed sum will be set aside for stipends for "core activists."
FredHayek wrote: Shouldn't your handle be "Democrats For Sale?" Obama is working the 1%r's every week.
No...My handle is exactly as it should be. There are 30 millionaires/billionaires that will spend more buying this election than all of the rest of the Amercian people combined.
But if I ever need help with my handle from a knuckle-dragging moron you'd be my first choice.
