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Illinois Senate Members of ALEC. Call them and ask them to resign today.

• Sen. Pamela J. Althoff (R-32), ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force (815) 455-6330
• Sen. William E. Brady, Jr. (R-44), ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force (309) 664-4440
• Sen. Kirk W. Dillard (R-24), ALEC Civil Justice Task Force (630) 969-0990
• Sen. Chris Lauzen (R-25), ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force (630) 264-2334
• Sen. David Luechtefeld (R-58), ALEC Education Task Force (618) 243-9014
• Sen. Matt Murphy (R-27), ALEC International Relations Task Force (847) 776-1490
• Sen. Christine Radogno (R-41), ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force (630) 243-0800
• Sen. David Syverson (R-34), ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force (815) 987-7555

ALEC Politicians:
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.) They 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 might be right. It is as if a state legislature had been reconstituted, yet corporations had pushed the people out the door. Learn more at ALECexposed.org.

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