“The Coca-Cola Company has elected to discontinue its membership with the American Legislative Exchange Council. Our involvement with ALEC was focused on efforts to oppose discriminatory food and beverae taxes, not on issues that have no direct bearing on our business.”
–Coca-Cola spokesperson Dian Garza Ciarlante, on explaining Coke’s decision to pull its ALEC membership on the heels of a similar decision by PepsiCo. Kraft Foods later became the third company to opt out. ALEC opponents say their next target is Wal-Mart.
Thank you Coke and Pepsi. Finally, people are beginning to stand up to the alec bullies.
Well considering that Coca Cola has exhibited some of the hallmarks of crony capitalism in the recent past and has ties to a known communist then ALEC is much better off not having CC as a member…