Corporate Lobby ALEC Aims at U.S. City Councils With New Group

The American Legislative Exchange Council, a corporate-funded nonprofit that promotes a free-market agenda through state legislatures, has spawned an offshoot to press its case through local governments.

The American City County Exchange, which held its organizational meeting last month in Dallas, will push policies such as contracting with companies to provide services such as garbage pick-up and eliminating collective bargaining, a municipal echo of the parent group’s state strategies.