BP, one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, is leaving the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in yet another blow to the conservative advocacy coalition.
National Journal reported BP’s departure on Monday. It’s the latest major company to have left the organization.
“We continually assess our engagement with policy and advocacy organizations, and based on our most recent assessment, we have determined that we can effectively pursue policy matters of current interest to BP without renewing our membership in ALEC,” a BP spokesman told National Journal.
ALEC blamed BP’s decision on “economic challenges” in the business sector, according to National Journal.
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Yelp, eBay and Facebook have all departed ALEC as well. Google chairman Eric Schmidt accused ALEC of “literally lying” about climate change when his company left.
Corporate America seems to be tired of sucking Koch.
Well, I was gonna put up a list of which companies continue to support them, but it’s too long.
There are LOTS of ways to get things done the ALEC way and you don’t have to call it ALEC. They may say they are leaving ALEC, but the ability to draft their own versions of legislation and get them passed by legislatures is just TOO tempting…and lucrative, to give up easily.
Gone are the days when the mere mention of BP would invoke 999 s̶h̶i̶l̶l̶s̶ t̶r̶o̶l̶l̶s̶ “social media consultants” to infest our boards with interesting reasons why the Deepwater Horizon disaster and ensuing 10,000 year ecological nightmare is just a bunch of hippies whining, as usual. They actually paid people to come onto this board and trash talk while their hole was belching poison into our ocean.
Shitlords.
I suspect something else is at play here. They don’t give up that easily. Maybe a name change.