\n“Our membership in ALEC expires this spring and for a number of reasons,\nincluding limited resources, we have made the decision not to renew.”\n<\/blockquote>\nand\n\nIntuit<\/a> (Turbo Tax and Quicken)\nalso decided to let its ALEC membership lapse.\n\n\n
<\/a>\nReasons such as petitions by numerous organizations asking companies\nto ditch ALEC?\nWe seem to have a case of the cheese fleeing the rat ship….\n(Sometimes I wish I could draw.)\n
\nHere’s another\n\npetition for corporations to ditch ALEC.<\/a>\nLet’s not forget\n\nColorofChange’s petition about voter suppression.<\/a>\n
\nAnd how about ALEC board member UPS, based in Atlanta?\n
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