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Expedia Latest to Exit ALEC The Guardian is reporting that the online travel company Expedia has dumped the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The Center for Media and Democracy has been flagging Expedia's financial support for ALEC and asking activists if they are using Expedia-connected hotel and air travel booking services. In an email to Common Cause, Expedia "confirmed it had severed ties" with the corporate bill mill. Read the rest of this item here. AARP To Drop ALEC after Members' Outcry AARP will drop its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has a long history of peddling bills that harm the interests of retirees and other Americans. The statement comes just days after the Center for Media and Democracy reported that AARP had joined ALEC and was a sponsor of ALEC's 2016 Annual Conference. AARP joins more than 120 private sector members that have publicly cut ties with ALEC since CMD launched the ALEC Exposed investigation in 2011. Read the rest of this item here. The Anti-Transparency Agenda Hailed Inside ALEC WI Senator Leah Vukmir By Rep. Chris Taylor--I walked into my sixth ALEC conference over a week ago as one of two familiar Wisconsin myths was being told by the queen of the American Legislative Exchange Council, state Senator Leah Vukmir. It wasn't the one Governor Walker continues to repeat. It was the other, lesser known, but equally powerful myth that is eaten up by the ALEC crowd. That's the one where Wisconsin Republicans had "shut down" a government run amok that had resorted to early morning military raids to suppress the First Amendment rights of "free market supporters" (i.e., ALEC allies and supporters). Read the rest of this item here.