Sentences with phrase «alec legislators»

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.

* Cross-referenced between a list of ALEC legislators listed in an Aug. 9, 2011 email from the legislative aid of ALEC's Ohio State Chairman, Rep. John Adams, obtained through a public records request (see PDF pp. 82 - 84 and PFAW p. 12).

An internal ALEC document provided to the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), shows that a Peabody Energy lobbyist provided ALEC legislators with a presentation on how to get more cash from corporations like Peabody to attend ALEC conferences.

The phenomenon of ALEC legislators sending such letters to lobbyists is something CMD has previously reported on.

This followed many failed attempts by ALEC legislators to freeze or repeal RPS laws in North Carolina, Kansas, and many other states, ALEC legislators in Ohio froze its RPS law, effectively gutting the clean energy and energy efficiency incentives.

UPDATE: After ALEC legislators failed to freeze or repeal RPS laws in North Carolina, Kansas, and many other states, ALEC legislators in Ohio froze its RPS law, effectively gutting the clean energy and energy efficiency incentives.

Well - connected lobbyists like those of Peabody, enable ALEC legislators to tap into large funds, but the relationship is one that appears to benefit the lobbyists at least as much.

Opponents of the resolution expected the Simmons amendment to be a poison pill, as it would include renewable fuel subsidies and oil industry tax breaks important to many ALEC legislators.

Moreover, public school advocates know that while ALEC legislators have been successful in getting limited school voucher schemes passed in state houses across the nation, these measures never succeed when they are put to the ballot.

Not exact matches

In September 2014 Chair Eric Schmidt announced on NPR that Alphabet had ended membership in ALEC, an organization that assists legislators and companies to promote model legislation.

In the last two years ALEC lost lost almost 400 state legislators and more than 60 corporations largely due to the group's involvement in the Stand Your Ground law that originally allowed George Zimmerman to walk free after he killed Trayvon Martin.

Backed by the Koch brothers and their American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, legislators across the American West, where most of the public lands are located, are calling on the federal government to cede control and management of them to counties and states.

Remember it only takes one legislator with ties to ALEC to obtain «model legislation» from ALEC to proliferate it in a state capitol.

Common Cause has requested that the IRS investigate ALEC's 501 (c)(3) status for participating in a significant amount of lobbying activity by promulgating corporate - sponsored model bills and providing resources to the legislators promoting those bills.

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While ALEC has a governing board of state legislators it also has a governing board of corporations, packed with tobacco firms, giant pharmaceutical firms, and energy companies like Exxon Mobil.

ALEC corporations spend tens of thousands of dollars each year for such access to lawmakers, and K12 has also paid many thousands of dollars to underwrite some of ALEC's docket of events for legislators and lobbyists.

Through the ALEC Task Force, K12 has actually had an equal vote with state legislators on so - called «model» bills to divert taxpayer funds away from traditional public schools toward the objectives of ALEC's private sector funders, to help their bottom - lines and / or legislative agenda.

Rhee, Walton, Broad, Pritzker, ALEC, Bloomberg, Daley, Emanuel, our state and Congressional legislators (Republicans

Rhee, Walton, Broad, Pritzker, ALEC, Bloomberg, Daley, Emanuel, our state and Congressional legislators (Republicans and Democrats), Duncan and, yes, President Obama.

ALEC convenes legislators, corporate lobbyists, and right - wing think tanks to vote as equals, behind closed doors, on «model bills» that benefit ALEC's corporate members, industry funders, and right - wing allies.

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.

Meanwhile, another Republican legislator, State Representative Rosa Rebimbas (R - 70th District) is pushing another ALEC concept, School Vouchers, which are designed to shift scarce public funds away from public schools and give the dollars to private and parochial schools.

Jeb Bush Defends Common Core At ALEC Meeting and Jeb Bush defends Common Core and Michelle Rhee, Jeb Bush warn Michigan legislators against abandoning Common Core standards and JEB BUSH AND JOEL KLEIN: The Case for Common Educational Standards and Arne Duncan tells newspaper editors how to report on Common Core and Arne Duncan: Beating Up on Common Core Is «Political Silliness» and Arne Duncan Defends Common Core, Ridicules Critics and Obama quietly implements Common Core.

More Information: Further details of Mr. Vaad's deep and substantive ties with ALEC, details of IRS 501 (c)(3) tax fraud charges filed against ALEC by Common Cause and ALEC model legislation calling for repeal of state Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards (RPS) and the ALEC Market - Power Renewables Act that directly seeks to influence state legislators and public utility commissioners to weaken clean energy regulations can be viewed at the website of: Friends of the Colorado PUC

It quotes ALEC materials saying, «The cornerstone of the ALEC program is the forum it provides for the private sector [read: for - profit corporations] to work in a one - on - one relationship with state legislators to develop public policies that are pro-growth, pro-business and pro-freedom.»

These corporate funded gifts paid for Rep. Vaad's travel to ALEC's conferences, where lobbyists draft model legislation in partnership with state legislators.

SPN, as reported in 2013 by DeSmog, was actually created as a message - force - multiplier by and for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), another conservative and corporate - backed group which produces model legislation that is disseminated to predominantly Republican state legislators nationwide.

Central to these efforts is the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), through which lobbyists — such as those from API — can meet in secret with state legislators from across the country.

Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to approve «model» bills... Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's operations.

The group's senior fellow for environmental policy even took credit for persuading «most of ALEC's state legislators and corporate members to push for a repeal of laws requiring more solar and wind power use on the basis of economics.»

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is the nation's largest nonpartisan individual membership association of state legislators, with over 2,000 state legislators across the nation and more than 100 alumni members in Congress.

ALEC was initially formed in September, 1973 by a group of state legislators including Henry Hyde, Paul Weyrich, and Lou Barnett, among others.

Despite executives» claims to the contrary, many oil and coal companies continue to support groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which spreads misinformation about climate science to state legislators, but denies that it denies climate science.

Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to approve «model» bills.

ALEC hosed a meeting in Denver featuring Republican legislators and representatives from corporate groups including Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, K12 Inc., Peabody Energy, and PhRMA.

«Peabody Energy Lobbyist Schools Legislators on Getting More ALEC Travel Perks,» PR Watch, March 5, 2014.

ALEC also offers a document titled «EPA's Regulatory Train Wreck: Strategies for State Legislators» that «outlines best practices for state legislators (including following the many states that are considering resolutions in 2011 to call for Congress to slow and stop this regulatory onslaught [by the EPA]-RLegislators» that «outlines best practices for state legislators (including following the many states that are considering resolutions in 2011 to call for Congress to slow and stop this regulatory onslaught [by the EPA]-Rlegislators (including following the many states that are considering resolutions in 2011 to call for Congress to slow and stop this regulatory onslaught [by the EPA]-RRB-.»

Comprised of nearly one - quarter of the country's state legislators and stakeholders from across the policy spectrum, ALEC members represent more than 60 million Americans and provide jobs to more than 30 million people in the United States.»

ALEC — which brings corporate lobbyists and state legislators together at annual meetings for networking, seminars and voting on what it dubs «model policies» — maintains close connections with the Koch network.

ALEC describes itself as «America's largest nonpartisan, voluntary membership organization of state legislators dedicated to the principles of limited government, free markets and federalism.

Since 2008, the ALEC task force on criminal justice, called the Justice Performance Project, has brought state legislators and stakeholders together to combat the trend of unforgiving and harsh criminal laws.

The first post-presidential American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) meeting this week in Washington, DC made clear that starry - eyed conservative state legislators had visions of more power dancing in their heads.

James Taylor, the Heartland Institute's senior fellow for environmental policy, said he was able to persuade most of ALEC's state legislators and corporate members to push for a repeal of laws requiring more solar and wind power use on the basis of economics.

This week in Denver, July 19 - 21, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) will welcome Republican state legislators and its corporate funders, including Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, K12 Inc., Peabody Energy, and PhRMA, to vote on corporate legislative priorities and create cookie cutter «model» bills in task force meetings that are still closed to the press.

«ALEC recognizes that climate change is an important issue,» reads a letter, signed by 156 state legislators, sent Wednesday to Google.

ALEC is a lobbyists» policy factory, where corporations vote as equals on «model bills» with state legislators.

ALEC's annual meeting is taking place in Chicago this week, just as Common Cause and CMD have filed a complaint to the IRS over ALEC's corporate - funded «Scholarships» for state legislators — ALEC is a tax exempt non-profit despite their mission of facilitating an exchange of company - crafted laws with state legislators in closed - door meetings.

ALEC participants, anti-tax activist Grover Norquist and Jonathan Small, a lobbyist affiliated with Koch Industries, all championed the measures in recent weeks in an attempt to sway legislators.