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*** Co-sponsors cross referenced with an email from ALEC Ohio State Chairman John Adams» legislative aid to Emily Petrovich of US Steel, dated 11/22/2011 — eight days before the Scottsdale meeting (see PDF p. 138).

The precise details of the ALEC tour, including the trip being part - sponsored by TransCanada, are not mentioned in Adams» financial disclosures, which only reports his expenses as being from ALEC and the Alberta Government.

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

Dozens of reports, drafted by BHI and released by SPN member think tanks at the state level, promote the agenda contained in the model legislation from ALEC.

Common Cause - one of the organizations to get these legal threats from ALEC over the «climate denial» exposure - has submitted detailed complaints to the IRS documenting how ALEC operations likely violate their nonprofit status.

Two organizations got letters from ALEC's lawyers, insinuating there would be legal action taken for accurately describing ALEC's legacy of denying climate change.

Check out Rachel Maddow's recent interview with Guardian reporter Ed Pilkington for more on ALEC's work against clean energy and other revelations from ALEC's leaked documents:

They were demanding that Dominion Resources, Inc. withdraw from ALEC, the right - wing legislation factory behind stand - your - ground laws, attacks on voting rights, and anti-climate laws.

Q: Will you be seeking advise and counsel from ALEC's Board of Directors, Private Enterprise Advisory Council, Board of Scholars or Private Sector Members to clarify ALEC's position on climate change in the wake of Google and other recent corporate departures?

Judging from the ALEC documents obtained by CMD, along so Compact for America's conspicuous absence from this month's ALEC meeting, the answer appears to be «no.»

The oil and gas permitting bill is the latest from ALEC in its push to hand over America's public lands to the fossil fuel companies that started almost 20 years ago.

In this online resource, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD, the publisher of the award - winning ALEC Exposed investigation) tracks and unmasks the «wage crushers»: the corporations, trade associations, «think tanks,» and front groups lobbying hard against better wages, benefits, and job standards for workers, with help from ALEC and its spin - off group ACCE.

The Centre for Media and Democracy (CMD) notes that since the 2011 launch of the website ALECExposed.org, many corporations have left and publicly distanced themselves from ALEC, including General Motors, Walgreens, Johnson & Johnson, Wal - Mart, Amazon, McDonald's, Coca - Cola, and GE.

The following is taken from ALEC's model bill for «Energy Principles,» introduced January 1, 2002 and last amended January 12, 2017.

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.

It was former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson who notoriously recounts returning from an ALEC convention with the idea of diverting public money to private schools in Milwaukee — the first state voucher scheme in the nation — which he misleadingly touts as his own.

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.

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

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

Not exact matches

This comes after a year in which ALEC, with help from groups like the Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank skeptical of climate change, failed in all of their coordinated attempts to roll back renewable portfolio standards (RPSs).

With funding to the tune of $ 500,000 from billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch's foundations from 2005 — 2011, and $ 1.4 million from Exxon Mobil this past decade, it shouldn't be a surprise that ALEC has had many successes in its 40 years of existence.

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

From wikipedia * Koch Industries Inc. was one of 14 «Vice Chairman» level sponsors at ALEC's 2010 annual meeting, which requires a $ 25,000 donation.

Even more extraordinary is ALEC's push this year to repeal Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS), which require that utility companies provide a certain amount of their total energy from renewable sources like wind.

ALEC, the Heartland Institute, and the Beacon Hill Institute all have received money from foundations associated with Charles and David Koch, and each are also part of the State Policy Network, an umbrella group of right - wing organizations that claim adherence to the free market.

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Basically, that meant that at a time, Cooper was seen as the nice guy from Alias then the jerk from Wedding Crashers and then the good looking smart alec from The Hangover.

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

Rachel Burgin forgets to remove ALEC boilerplate language from FL bill: https://kstreet607.com/2012/02/03/oops-florida-republican-forgets-to-remove-alec-mission-statement-from-boilerplate-anti-tax-bill/

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

The first Parent Trigger law was enacted in 2010 in California and, with an assist from Heartland and ALEC, the idea is rapidly spreading.

With charter laws in place across the country, here's ALEC's smorgasbord of other «solutions» to choose from....

These ALEC members are taking a victory lap for diverting money from public schools to the for - profit gateway drug of charter schools leading to private schools funded entirely with public money.

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.

Thankfully, research on which policies work in other states show us that educational choice programs supported by ALEC members have a record of success across different measures, from test score increases, to parental satisfaction, to better life outcomes for students.

«In 2004 when the «model» bill was drafted and approved, both K12 Inc. and Connections Academy were part of the «School Choice Subcommittee of ALEC's Education Task Force, according to an archived version of ALEC's website from February 2005.

In a more sober moment, Helen Farias, a local union leader from the Sweetwater Education Association intoned, «The types of legislation ALEC promotes will create a two - tiered educational system, one for the privileged and one for the rest of us.»

ALEC gets 98 percent of its funding from corporations and sources like the Koch family foundations, and it acts as a conduit for special interest influence in state legislatures.

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.

A diverse array of politicians and groups, from the Urban League to ALEC, even President Donald Trump, have reached out to Dr. Perry to better understand what matters to parents.

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.»

ALEC includes many individual members who are lawmakers from across the country.

And there was certainly a time, not so long ago, when I was also a fully paid - up McKeever Believer: his seriousness, his commitment to the act of painting, and the complete absence from his work of what the American painter Gary Stephan has dubbed «visual sarcasm» — that is, the use of paint only in order to flaunt its supposed inadequacy and redundancy — made him seem like a bulwark against the insufferable smart - alec nihilism of Richard Prince, Wade Guyton, or Christopher Wool; and against the prevailing attitudes within the Higher Education establishment at which I both teach, and study on the MA programme, where the buzz - phrase on the Fine Art Critical Studies syllabus is «post-Making»; in other words, goodbye and good riddance to all that messy business with brushes and squeegees and welding torches, once and for all.

After Google chairman Eric Schmidt accused ALEC of «literally lying» about climate change on NPR in September 2014, a fleet of companies ditched ALEC, from oil giants like BP and Occidental Petroleum to software and tech firms like Facebook, Yelp, Yahoo, AOL, eBay, and SAP — the company which chaired ALEC's corporate board.

At the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona in December 2015, the Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force heard a presentation on «State and Federal Subsidies for Electric Vehicles,» then voted on a resolution to discourage states from providing subsidies, the «Resolution Regarding Subsidies for Electric Vehicles.»

On a more serious note, Brunelli's cover note also makes very clear that, far from the «transparent,» «educational» organization ALEC now claims to be, ALEC told its funders a different story: «One hundred percent of our energy and effort goes into winning the public policy debate and championing a free market economy... [elipses original] a pro-business, pro-growth, pro-freedom, limited government agenda.»

Hence, Vaad is under no obligation to report ALEC «scholarships» received from 2009 to 2012 or any he might receive during his term as a PUC commissioner.

Payments from Xcel Energy to EEI along with payments from EEI to ALEC are documented on the Friends of the Colorado PUC website.

An October 2012 report entitled «Buying Influence» by Common Cause indicates that Colorado PUC nominee Glenn Vaad received ALEC «scholarships» in 2006, 2007 and 2008, including money from Xcel Energy.

Welcome to the murky world of ALEC (the American Legislative Exchange Council), the State Policy Network (SPN), and David Koch's Americans for Prosperity (AFP)-- all of which are financially aided by the Kochs» riches along with funding from some of their fellow billionaire travelers.