"Anti-ALEC Activists Pressure eBay to Drop Conservative Group"

"More than 80 organizations are asking the e-commerce company to follow the lead of Google and other tech giants and divorce itself from the American Legislative Exchange Council."

"More than 80 organizations on Tuesday will urge eBay to end its affiliation with the American Legislative Exchange Council.

In a letter addressed to eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and other top executives, a coalition of mostly left-leaning environmental and public-interest groups will pressure the e-commerce website to follow the lead of other prominent tech companies that have in recent weeks chosen to divorce from ALEC, a conservative coalition of state legislators and corporations, National Journal has learned.

"The recent exodus of technology corporations was in part due to concerns over ALEC's extreme views; that extreme agenda includes denying the science of climate change, defunding public services, curtailing workers' rights, and opposing net neutrality," said the letter, whose signatories include the Sierra Club, the League of Conservation Voters, and the AFL-CIO."

Dustin Volz reports for National Journal October 7, 2014.