Hi there Democracy Advocates! We have some breaking news that we want to share with you. CMD has just filed a whistleblower complaint with the IRS against the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which is illegally providing its state legislative members with sophisticated voter management and campaign software deeply tied to the Republican Party and worth more than $6 million per election cycle. In the complaint, we detail ALEC’s extensive and ongoing violations of its 501(c)(3) charitable tax-status, which prohibits engaging in any electoral activity, based on information gathered from ALEC’s legislative members and other documents we obtained through investigations and open records requests. If the IRS finds that ALEC broke the law it could revoke the group’s nonprofit status, which would be a financial blow to the pay-to-play trade group, which brings together state lawmakers and corporate lobbyists to write model legislation that favors big business at the expense of working people and the environment. | |
