Johnson & Johnson says it will leave ALEC too

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Thanks to MAPE members' activism, Johnson & Johnson is ending its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

ALEC is the corporate-sponsored group that drafts model legislation that aims to cut government services and target public employees. The model legislation is spoon-fed to member state legislators nationwide, including here in Minnesota, and legislators push to enact the legislation. ALEC is behind the effort to enact the voter ID constitutional amendment and the failed efforts to pass "right to work" legislation in Minnesota, and many other harmful bills.

As ALEC's efforts to enact model legislation have been exposed, a mass exodus of corporate members is underway.Johnson & Johnson is now the most recent in a long list of companies and non-profits who have ended their affiliation with ALEC, with others including Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Kraft Foods, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, McDonald's and Procter & Gamble.

But there is still more work to do. Many major corporations are still funding ALEC. State Farm is one of them.

Let's keep the momentum going. Call State Farm and tell the corporation to stop supporting ALEC and voter suppression. Click here for a sample script and the number to call.