Following up on the success with Google, over 80 groups have penned an open letter to eBay founder, Pierre Omidyar, and other eBay executives urging them to cut ties with the conservative policy group ALEC.
The letter tells eBay to follow the lead of other tech giants like Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Yahoo, which have all ended their ALEC membership "because of their concerns about the harmful role ALEC has played in our democratic process."
As a reflection on the many issues for which ALEC lobbies, the groups signing the letter are varied. They range from big green groups like the Sierra Club and Greenpeace, to smaller groups like the Alliance for Retired Americans, to unions like the United Steelworkers and American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, to religious groups like the National Council of Churches USA.
The National Journal, The New Republic and Reuters have more context.
Interestingly, even ALEC has tactically admitted that embracing denial is a losing position. After the Google break-up, the group was quick to announce that "no ALEC model policy denies climate change" even though they support teaching "both sides" of the climate issue as well as opposing renewable energy and otherwise acting in every way as though they deny the reality of the threat of climate change.