Wendy's is the 6th Firm to Say It is No Longer a Member of ALEC

Submitted by Sara Jerving on

Wendy's International, the parent company of Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburger, is the sixth corporation to say that it is no longer a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in the past week. Wendy's International sent an email to the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) this morning stating that the fast food chain had decided not to renew their membership at the end of 2011. CMD
launched ALEC Exposed and named Wendy's as corporate member in July 2011.

Wendy's Dumps ALECThis announcement comes in light of a recent controversy surrounding ALEC's link to Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law, which may protect the killer of 17-year old Trayvon Martin, and ALEC's association with voter ID laws and other extreme legislative proposals. McDonalds, Kraft Foods, Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Intuit have all announced within the past week that they have decided to not renew their membership with ALEC and the Gates Foundation has announced it will not continue to fund ALEC.

Last year the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) launched ALECexposed.org, where it made available over 800 "model" ALEC bills which shed light on a radical right-wing agenda that includes corporate tax breaks, the privatization of public education, voter suppression, anti-immigrant bills, climate change denial, among other initiatives. Since this launch, CMD has been analyzing these bills and targeting the corporate members of ALEC to urge them to end their membership with the organization. Yesterday, CMD, and partner organizations, urged McDonalds, State Farm and Johnson & Johnson to stop funding ALEC. McDonalds publicly announced later that afternoon that they would not continue funding ALEC.

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Fred Sayre replied on

ALEC and the Koch brothers would have been on the front page of the Daily Worker newspaper back in the 1950s. The paper would have extolled their efforts to change the face of democracy using the legislative process to benefit corporate America and the 1% at the expense of the 99%. The bills that are drafted in secret by lobbyists and legislators from around the country and then taken back to the respective states where they are submitted for approval. To my way of thinking this is out and out subversion of our legislative process. By the way the above mentioned newspaper was the voice of the American Communist Party.

Anonymous replied on

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Gagged replied on

I would expect this behavior in Bejing or PyongYang. Soros funded groups like your's, Media Matters, Color of Change, MoveOn.org, CMD and others use intimidation/blackmail to silence support for pro-business groups. Choice in education, elections that don't resemble those in Moscow and legal immigration are things that made this country great, including being innocent until proven guilty (Zimmerman). You commies should be ashamed!

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