Founder of MADD lobbies for liquor industry

[snopes]

Comment: Is it true that the Founder of MADD is now a working lobyist for
the liquor industry????

[Bryan With a 'Y']

From a bio of MADD founder Candy Lightner:

In 1994, Lightner drew fire from MADD for lobbying on behalf of the American Beverage Institute, a trade group of restaurant and hotel executives. She took sides against her former allies over states wanting to pass laws lowering the blood alcohol level at which a driver is considered legally drunk from .10 to .08. Lowering the limit would not get the most dangerous drivers off the road, Lightner argued. Drivers with blood alcohol levels above .10, she asserted, cause more than 80 percent of drunk driving deaths. "The man who killed my daughter kept on driving drunk," Lightner told Katherine Griffin of Health magazine. "He has since been arrested several more times. In each case his blood alcohol content has been .20 or above. A small segment of our drinking/driving population causes the majority of the fatalities. So why aren't we going after them""

Challenging rumors that she'd gone soft on drunk driving, Lightner maintained that she favored enforcement of existing laws that allow police to take away the cars of repeat drunk drivers. "I am still amazed that the man who killed my daughter is barred from ever owning a handgun," she told Griffin, "but he can own a car."

Ms. Lightner has had some public differences of opinion with MADD's official position on some issues. She has also, as above, done some paid consultation work for the beverage industry.
Whatever your cause, sometimes you have differences of opinion with your allies, and if you're involved in an issue for long enough there will be occasions when you'll find yourself with strange bedfellows, figuratively speaking. To the best of my knowledge, however, Ms. Lightner is still a passionate advocate.
There are plenty of anti-MADD sites out there that would like to make more of it than that, but there it is.