April 19, 2012

The corporate front group the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is finally in the public eye. Americans everywhere are finally seeing how this group colludes with big corporations to pass laws all over the country that harm nearly every area of American life.

As ALEC has come under public scrutiny, the group has called upon allied state legislators to defend its role in corrupting American democracy. These lawmakers have come forth to stridently defend the organization against criticism.

Republic Report has conducted an analysis of these lawmakers’ campaign funds and has discovered that they may have another reason to jump up in support of ALEC — they share many of the same corporate donors. Here’s our analysis of these lawmakers and the donors they share with ALEC: