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Legal Consumer's Bill of Rights Act and The Honesty in Lawyering Act Despite their names, these bills are ways for ALEC and its corporate supporters to overburden lawyers who represent injured consumers.

See here for ALEC's new anti-environmental resolutions.

ALEC has also helped advance this agenda, as noted by PRWatch, opposing regional agreements to address climate change and even hosting a workshop for ALEC politicians last year about «Warming Up to Climate Change,» about how increased carbon dioxide is supposedly good for you and leads to longer lifespans.

Daniel Simmons previously worked for ALEC and the Mercatus Center, which was founded by the Kochs.

Taylor's assertions mimicked those made in a debunked series of reports written for ALEC's RPS attacks.

Part of the duty of the ALEC state chairs is to solicit funds from corporations for the ALEC «scholarship fund,» which raises more than $ 600,000 per year and which enables legislators to travel for free to ALEC conferences, where they meet with lobbyists from corporations like Peabody Energy, Exxon Mobil and Koch Industries.

The names of the members were listed in a document that details the conference registrations for ALEC's 44th annual meeting that took place in Denver, Colorado in July 2017.

EEI is a member of ALEC and sponsored the 2012 States and Policy Summit, with sponsorships for ALEC conferences range from $ 7,000 -25,000.

The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) has been reporting on some of the bizarre choices for ALEC's «Legislator of the Week Award.»

As part of the push for the ALEC fracking bill passed in Colorado, Bo Heath arranged for Colorado ex-governor Bill Ritter to fly down to North Carolina to meet with George Howard and the MEC.

The good news for ALEC is that either count includes the resolutions that mirror ALEC model legislation.»

Dozens of utilities and energy companies provide funding for ALEC, including Koch Industries.

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.

The group is influential — Brookings reported in 2013 that the rate of adoption for ALEC model legislation is «strikingly high» compared to other bills.

State Representative Chris Taylor, a Democrat from Madison, just got back from another American Legislative Exchange Council conference, and concluded: «The issue of the moment for ALEC is public education — that is, undermining it.»

The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) has been reporting on some of the bizarre choices for ALEC's «Legislator of the Week Award.»

For ALEC, it is all about tearing down our public school infrastructure so corporate privatization efforts can move in and make a buck.

State Representative Robin Vos, the Wisconsin state chair for ALEC, sponsored the bill codifying Walker's radical expansion of online, for - profit schools.

Not exact matches

The ALEC draft document for this week's Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force Meeting encourages state policymakers to recognize the value the electric grid delivers to all and to update net metering policies to require everyone who uses the grid, such as distributed solar users who feed into it, to pay for it.

Commissioner Brenda Burns (R) served on ALEC's board for nine years and became the organization's national chairman in 1999.

(The cartoon is the picture on the left for all you smart - alecs out there!)

... According to the Center For Public Integrity, ALEC received $ 150,000 from Charles and David Koch in 2011 to help finance its activities.

The Australian Livestock Exporters Council (ALEC) represents and speaks for the livestock export industry.

Indeed, the right - wing American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, has endorsed legislation for licensing CPMs put forward by midwives» groups.

For instance, Senator Squadron says, it's difficult to determine whether ALEC, incorporated as a 501 - C 3 charity, is a lobbying organization and should be registered with the state ethics commission.

Some of the ALEC criteria contained below are not appropriate for a UK standard.

Resolution in Opposition to a Carbon Tax: Despite support for a carbon tax from ALEC members like ExxonMobil, ALEC is creating a model bill to weigh in on what will become the keystone policy battle for climate change science deniers, a battle that is already creating a rift among conservative groups, like the Koch - funded Heritage Foundation and the Heartland Institute against the R Street Institute.

ALEC is leading the nationally - coordinated attack on state renewable portfolio standards as part of an ambitious dirty energy agenda for the members of its anti-environmental task force, like Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, Peabody Energy, Duke Energy and other major oil, gas and coal interests.

Mr. Head testified alongside members of the Heartland Institute, Americans for Prosperity and the Kansas Policy Institute (see more on each, below), all of which are members of ALEC and SPN.

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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ALEC, the thirty - eight - year - old conservative nonprofit, similarly coordinates a fifty - state strategy for right - wing policy.

The Won't Back Down movie and the 8/17 Teacher Rocks concert are propaganda for the parent trigger law created by charter school operators and promoted by ALEC.

A model bill for the «Parent Trigger Act» and much of school choice and privatization legislation is designed and promoted by the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC, which coordinates with the State Policy Network and has become notorious for promoting «stand your ground» legislation and propagating climate change denial.

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This organization works closely with ALEC and the Koch Bros. / Americans for Prosperity to promote passage of model legislation and influence political outcomes, so it was natural that after ALEC came under fire for its secretive nature, participants sought shelter within the SPN.

Jeb Bush and his Foundation for Florida's Future hand - selected Representative Michael Bileca, a member of ALEC (Stand Your Ground Law / Trayvon Martin murder case.)

See the new video below, starring Karran Harper Royal, one of PAA's founders, about how ALEC is pushing substandard virtual learning in state legislatures throughout the country, in order to reap huge corporate profits for the privateers and defraud our kids.

For years ALEC operated in relative anonymity, pushing and passing the same often radical laws across the nation, excluding voters from the process.

Then she, too, blasted all her bête - noires: Democrats for Education Reform, Jeb Bush, Eli Broad, ALEC, Govs. Snyder, Walker, Corbitt, Jindal and Brownback, the Walton family and — what would a union leader diatribe be without them?

Opening Plenary The American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, is known for drafting conservative model educational legislation in states.

In 2006 the University of Chicago economist told ALEC that the ideal way to get to a system in which parents control the education of their children would be «to abolish the public school system and eliminate all the taxes that pay for it.»

Despite the American Legislative Council's tentative embrace of Donald Trump's presidency, they are foaming at the mouth for the now - endless opportunities to further privatize public education — a key ALEC goal they have been promoting and pushing for decades.

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Along with American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), known for its efforts to provide conservative model legislation to GOP lawmakers across the country, the IJ published a report in 2007 titled «School Choice and State Constitutions: A Guide to Designing School Choice Programs.»

Revisions to ALEC's talking points for its model voucher legislation focus on middle - class families and the school choice options not tied to family income.

They are funded by the same billionaires, push the same ALEC - written laws, and falsely claim to be speaking for parents.

Ladner works for Jeb's Foundation for Excellence in Education, writes the K - 12 Education Report Card for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and is a fellow at the Friedman Foundation for School Choice / Ed Choice and the Goldwater Institute.

Those politicians who fall for the «ALEC treatment» become puppets who push the conservative, right - wing group's education policies and proposals back home — legislation designed to benefit ALEC's wealthy benefactors and turn a profit on the backs of students without any regard for their educational wellbeing.

For instance, in 2012 civil rights leaders called on Walmart and the Walton Family to withdraw from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).