Sentences with phrase «alec did»

Pass a resolution, as ALEC did, expressing outrage atthat.

Strassel asserted that Healey targeted ALEC because it is «one of the most powerful forces in the country for free - market legislation,» an argument she based on the false premise that «ALEC doesn't now, and hasn't ever, taken a position on the climate.»

Attorneys for ALEC sent letters to Common Cause and the League of Conservation Voters asking them to immediately «cease making false statements» and «remove all false or misleading material» suggesting that ALEC does not believe in global warming, reports The Washington Post.

While ALEC does not publicly disclose its funding sources, public 990 records and data collected by the Conservative Transparency project reveal some of its funding sources.

But there are some private sector members that ALEC doesn't want back.

Not exact matches

And he probabably will be taking his marching orders from ALEC and the Koch bros like the rest of the party does.

«I don't believe in fairy tales about chakras, or energy,» he scoffs, and the film's success lies in how much pleasure it takes in undermining this self - important smart alec, physically, mentally and spiritually.

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In Tennessee, Republican State Representative Harry Brooks didn't even bother changing the name of ALEC's Virtual Public Schools Act before introducing it as his own legislation.

Though she gave few other policy specifics, other ALEC speakers did.

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The Civic Committee of the Commercial Club has been doing those jobs in Chicago since long long before the current crop of billionaires invented ALEC.

One of the main ways they are doing this is through ALEC.

Not only did the faithful get a chance to express their displeasure with ALEC, they got to do it in a state that has an extensive voucher program as well as tax - credit scholarships.

So as ALEC continues to fight for taxpayers, parents and kids, ISTA — as all teachers unions do — looks to preserve its power and influence... at the expense of taxpayers, parents and kids.

More than a quarter of all the state legislators in the country belong to ALEC, although the secretive group does not disclose its list of more than 2000 legislative members.

In our FAQ on the movie, we provide some background about how the Parent Trigger legislation was first developed, how it has been disseminated by the right - wing group ALEC, and how it has never successfully worked to bring about true parent empowerment and why it is unlikely to do so in the future.

All you have to do is look to the ALEC playbook and you can see it coming.

In response to letters from Greenpeace to nine major utilities questioning their support of ALEC, a representative of MidAmerican Energy Holdings and its subsidiaries NV Energy and PacifiCorp said they do not and will not support ALEC efforts, Greenpeace researcher Connor Gibson reported.

When contacted to discuss the company's ALEC membership and support, a Google spokesperson declined to comment specifically about ALEC, but did say that it is important for Google to be a part of policy discussions on technology.

Perhaps he really doesn't know better (although a man in his position certainly ought to know better), and has just repeated what he saw on a fossil - fuel funded denial group's website, or heard at an ALEC conference.

It is due to a calculated disinformation campaign by the fossil fuel industry and a cadre of front groups like ALEC to make people believe the science is unsettled, exploiting the natural human tendency to do nothing in the face of uncertainty.

Duke did not respond to requests for comment on ALEC, but EEI confirmed it worked against the resolution.

An unnamed representative from ALEC on the call echoed this strategy, saying ALEC would push their members to do the same and encouraged them to work with Bruning on this approach.

The complaint included more than 220 pages of evidence demonstrating how ALEC operates more like a «corporate bill mill» than it does a 501 (c)(3) organization.

He asserts that the BBA Model Policy provisions in the ALEC Article V Handbook passed by 9 states «don't add up» with the older BBA Resolutions.

Q: Given ALEC's emphasis on free markets and subsidies, does the Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force plan to pass model legislation limiting fossil fuel and nuclear energy subsidies and corporate welfare?

What does not build trust is the «cookie cutter» wording legislation written by ALEC (to eliminate / restrict renewables) introduced in numerous legislatures.

Lisa Nelson said on Diane Rehm: «To be clear: ALEC has no policy on climate change, and does not take positions without underlying model policy.»

Nowhere in the EPA plan, ALEC claims, does it say what the climatic benefits of limiting emissions from coal - fired power plants would be.

Even companies that are sticking with ALEC appear to be embarrassed by the association: Duke Energy has done all it can to not confirm renewed ALEC membership, ignoring repeated calls, emails and a 150,000 - strong public petition delivered by a diverse coalition of organizations whose members don't appreciate how ALEC's bad policies make Duke appear two - faced.

Shortly before that, ALEC's Energy, Environment & Agriculture task force considered, but didn't ever approve, the Solar Streamline Permitting Act (see p. 18).

So far, the IRS has failed to do its job and walk into the shadows of ALEC's operations, where there is every indication that ALEC has crossed the line.

The Post notes that ALEC takes issue with the label «climate change denier,» after the group's work doing just that led to the departures of major corporate supporters.

Companies that have shown integrity in other ways, by supporting clean energy or standing up to illegal government surveillance, don't need to swim in the Beltway muck by supporting climate deniers like ALEC or CEI.

Did you not see our years of work to expose ALEC's climate change denial?

«The Council does not support government mandates,» said ALEC spokesman Bill Meierling.

It also does not include money spent by corporate lobbyists at special parties for lawmakers or state delegations at some of the most expensive restaurants in San Diego, nor money spent by some of the corporations to fund the trips for state lawmakers to San Diego for what ALEC has dubbed «scholarships.»

[5] When contacted by a Vice reporter in August 2014, Edelman did not deny continuing to represent ALEC.

While Edelman's president, Richard Edelman, has written in support of addressing climate change, [15] and has claimed that «We do not accept clients that seek to deny climate change,» [16] the company continued to represent at least three climate change deniers as of August 2014: the API, E.ON, and ALEC.

ALEC has since distanced itself from the language in the leaked agreement, although it is known that ALEC staff did present the document for board approval, but according to the meeting agenda obtained by CMD, another Peabody lobbyist at the meeting, Kelly Mader, advised those present on the «roles and responsibilities» of being an ALEC state chair.

It's earned such a description because it passes «model bills» written by corporate lobbyists and to boot, the lobbyists typically do so behind closed doors at ALEC's annual meetings.

This morning in Chicago hundreds of primarily Republican state legislators are getting more indoctrination against doing anything about climate change from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

Yet what Koch - affiliated groups like ALEC and the American Energy Alliance manage to do is take policies that save jobs and strengthen (clean) energy security and make them all about President Obama's agenda: any show of support for clean energy, goes their pro-fossil fuel line of reasoning, is a direct endorsement of climate action / the existence of climate change, and thus can not be tolerated.

Ohio's financial disclosure forms for legislators specifically mention that expenses or reimbursements from ALEC conferences do not need to be publicly disclosed.

ALEC legislators have found ways to make their moves harder to track in light of repeated exposure of ALEC's pollution of democracy in the United States over the last year, and sometimes existing state laws don't help.

If Duke doesn't like ALEC's history shilling for climate change deniers, nor the National Rifle Association, nor the Republican party's voter disenfranchisement strategies, what is making Duke stay?

Similarly, Google didn't just quit the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) over climate change — it flat out accused the secretive lobbying group of lying.