Sentences with phrase «alec membership»

Text below has been updated to include Rep. Hedke's ALEC membership.

Just one day after Google announced it was cutting ties with the ALEC, Facebook announced that they are «not likely» to renew their ALEC membership next year.

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.

Biddulph charges Dranias with launching a «full - on assault of the traditional Article V process» and attacking both BBATF and Convention of States, and formally asks the ALEC Board to revoke CFA's ALEC membership.

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.

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.

Since late August corporate giants, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and YELP have each announced they have already left or are soon dropping their membership in ALEC.

«We continually assess our engagements with policy and advocacy organizations and based on our most recent assessment, we have determined that we can effectively pursue policy matters of current interest to BP without renewing our membership in ALEC,» the spokesman said.

The CMD listed financial underwriters of the ALEC event as the following (* Asterisks indicating membership on ALEC's corporate board of directors):

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

Ultimately, the ALEC board drafted a letter in response to the quarreling groups declining to revoke anyone's membership and chastising them to «behave with civility and professionalism» and «honor their commitments to each other.»

«As a member in good standing of an organization to which we are proud to belong,» he wrote, «we hereby request that the ALEC Board of Directors... revoke the membership of the Compact for America for attacking and undermining ALEC model Article V policies... Additionally, we request that the Board revoke ALEC's endorsement of the CFA model policy and any other endorsements of CFA.»

This is already having its effect: «Shell announced this summer that it would not renew its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, a free - enterprise group that has opposed government mandates, subsidies and other efforts to force or encourage companies to develop and use more renewable energy sources.

The Charles Koch Foundation and Koch - controlled Claude R. Lambe Foundation both fund ALEC outside of Koch Industries» membership dues, together giving ALEC hundreds of thousands of dollars.

This would allow companies like Monsanto (indirectly represented in ALEC through its membership in CropLife America, an agrochemical front group and ALEC energy task force member) to bottleneck regulations of their GMO seeds and products at the state government level and stop community resistance to their abusive patent laws and enforcement through lawsuits.

APS claimed to have left ALEC in April 2012 due to «economic» reasons but rejoined the organization in November 2012 by paying $ 10,000 for membership and fees to join the Energy, Environment and Agriculture (EEA) Task Force.

While there may have been a gap in APS» membership, Gibson contended, «It's possible APS» holding company Pinnacle West never left ALEC, or it's possible that APS lied to the Capital Times just like APS lied to Huffington Post about funding the anti-solar ads.»

In May 2012, American Commitment launched a petition urging corporate members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to continue their membership with the controversial organization.

ALEC's December, 2012 meeting in Washington, DC was heavily sponsored by coal companies, including AEP, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), and Edison Electric Institute, the utility trade group whose membership includes Duke Energy, AEP, NiSource, Dominion, AES and FirstEnergy.

Most of ALEC's money comes from corporations and rich people like the Koch brothers, with a tiny sliver more from its negligible legislator membership dues ($ 50 / year).

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

ALEC's notes for Duke Energy's lapsed membership, as of April 22, 2013, only say «Merged with Progress Energy, new contacts,» indicating that Duke's absence was only temporary as new personnel were assigned to participate in ALEC's work.

Its products might be «Ford Tough,» but in making the decision to stop funding ALEC, Ford executives are responding to consumer concern over its membership in the controversial, Koch - funded ALEC, which has both an extreme anti-worker agenda as well as an anti-environmental agenda.

Google announced it was leaving ALEC in September 2014, calling its membership a «mistake.»

[5] ALEC listed the company as part of its Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force until it allegedly terminated its membership on January 14, 2013 because its «merged with Duke; new contacts» (Duke remained an ALEC member), according to an August 2013 board document obtained by The Guardian.

Among the biggest revelations: ALEC may soon face a budget crisis, and is feeling the heat of public pressure from activists and its own membership in the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin shooting by George Zimmerman in Florida.