Although the group does not intend to endorse a candidate, it plans to make the campaigns’ responses public early next year as part of an effort to inject the issue into the presidential race.

“We’re not pretending that our issue is the paramount issue in the campaign, or the only issue of concern, but when you’re talking about a sector that is growing at twice the rate of GDP, that employs over 11 million Americans and contributed over a trillion dollars to the U.S. economy last year, we think it’s an issue of significance to our country and, we hope, to the presidential candidates,” the Alliance’s executive director Patrick Ross said on a conference call with reporters.

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