Members of AARP, the advocacy group for older Americans, listen as Congressional Democrats speak at a rally in Washington on Tuesday, July 15, 2008. AARP isn’t exactly hiding its new financial relationship with ALEC.
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AARP, the non-profit seniors organization that exists to promote the financial security, pensions and healthcare of those over 50, is secretly funding the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), an organization whose bills have acted against the interests of ordinary Americans, including retirees and their families.
The Center for Media and Democracy has learned that AARP has recently joined ALEC, and that it is a named sponsor of the ALEC annual meeting taking place in Indianapolis, Indiana from July 27-29, 2016.
AARP isn’t exactly hiding its new financial relationship with ALEC, at least to ALEC legislators. […]
Glad I’m not a member of AARP even though I’m 77. I wouldn’t want a penny of my money given to anything ALEC does or represents.
I found out about this Monday night about 9:00. By 9:30 I had called AARP, stopped my membership, and arranged to have my last dues payment returned. Oh, and I told the lady exactly why I was quitting the organization.
I’m a member. I won’t be any more. Morally AARP is committing fraud against its members.
I cannot believe that AARP is supporting ALEC, an organization advanced by the right wing Koch Bros, who advocate the privatizaton of Social Security. I am a member and I strongly oppose this. What hipocracy !!!!! Why am I a member? AARP claims that its non-partisian. We now know that is not the case.