In case stopping awful legislation from becoming law in the Missouri legislative Veto Session isn't victory enough for you,  here's a fun win.  The infamous ALEC just lost the 50th business as a member.  Nice!  As ALEC loses funding from businesses we know they can make it up with more funds from the likes of billionaire  Rex Sinquefield.   But it becomes harder for them to portray themselves as a coalition of businesses interested in better public policy.   A coalition of greedy billionaires just doesn't sound as good.

From Jobs with Justice/American Rights at Work

It’s not every day I have good news to share, and today marks one of those rare occasions. Today I found out that Sallie Mae officially left ALEC!*

We did it! Your emails to Sallie Mae executives; our relentless organizing of student activists, consumer advocates, labor and education groups; and our protests and demonstrations at Sallie Mae’s shareholder meeting in May and at the ALEC convention in August, all added up.

After months of pressure, the nation’s largest private student loan lender succumbed. Sallie Mae is now the 50th company to leave the extremist, anti-democratic, pay-to-play front group for right-wing corporate interests. For too long, Sallie Mae has effectively skirted regulation, ignored calls for transparency, and stayed out of the public's eye despite its major role in the student debt crisis. But thanks to our efforts, Sallie Mae is no longer operating under the radar.

This is a terrific victory to celebrate. But our work isn’t done. We have much more to do in our fight to end Sallie Mae’s predatory practices and to push for student debt relief.

We’re not naïve. We know we can't win big victories against big corporations alone. We can only do it when we come together to tackle our fights, from every angle, with all our energy. We can't win without you.

Thanks again!

--Chris,
Student Debt Organizer, Jobs with Justice and American Rights at Work

* http://www.jwj.org/blog/victory-sallie-mae-leaves-alec