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Private corporations that profit from human incarceration. Drug and insurance companies that fight health-care reform. Polluters who write environmental laws. Fortune 500 favorites that bust unions. ALEC receives more than $6 million a year from corporations and their spinoffs. These are among the major funders of the American Legislative Exchange Council:
Corporations
- 3M, Abbott Laboratories, Amway, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, AT&T, Baxter Health, Bayer, Blue Cross Blue Shield,
- BNSF, BP Amoco, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cargill, Centerpoint Energy, Coca-Cola, Comcast, Coors Brewing,
- Corrections Corporation of America, Crown Cork and Seal, Diageo, Ely Lilly, Energy Future Holdings, ExxonMobil, Fedex, Flint Hills Resources,
- Ford, General Electric, Genetech, General Motors, GloxoSmithKline, HP, IBM, International Paper,
- Intuit, Johnson and Johnson, Koch Industries, Kraft Foods/Altria, Liberty Mutual, Marathon Oil, Merck, Microsoft,
- Peabody Energy, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Philip Morris, Reed Elsevier, Reynolds American, Salt River Project, Shell, State Farm Insurance,
- Texaco, Time Warner Cable, United Parcel Service (UPS), UnitedHealth Group, United States Smokeless Tobacco, Verizon, VISA, Wal-Mart, Xcel Energy
Industry Associations
- American Bail Coalition, American Nuclear Energy Council, American Petroleum Institute, Centerpoint360, National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB), National Rifle Association (NRA), Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturing of America (PhARMA), U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Foundations
- Allegheny Foundation, Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Castle Rock Foundation, Cato Institute, Gates Foundation, Heritage Foundation, JM Foundation, Charles G. Koch Foundation, Claude R. Lambe Foundation, John M. Olin Foundation
Source: Minnesota Common Cause: “Legislating Under the Influence,” p.10
