Sentences with phrase «funding alec»

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.

Coca - Cola stops funding ALEC.

EEI has funded ALEC and has close staff ties.

The Kochs have long funded ALEC.

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.

Not exact matches

On Tuesday, The Guardian showed how ALEC is facing a funding crisis after losing a number of members due to its policy on gun laws.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which plays a huge role in funding Republican candidates, has made opposing net metering and clean energy policies a foundation of its policies.

The bill is based on a model produced by the conservative, corporate - funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

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.

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.

The Market - Power Renewables Act and the Renewable Energy Credit Act: ALEC and other Koch - funded State Policy Network groups like the Heartland Institute haven't had much success with their attempts to repeal state renewable portfolio standard (RPS) laws through the ALEC / Heartland Electricity Freedom Act.

This has been a long - term agenda item of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the corporate funded bill mill and many State Policy Network «think tanks» and advocacy groups funded by Bradley.

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

Parent trigger laws are being pushed by organizations like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which Walden Media owner and oil billionaire Philip Anschutz helps fund.

Currently there are at least five different bills drafted by ALEC that use various approaches to divert public funds to private schools.

The Foundation funded three ALEC members who sat on the ALEC Education Task Force which approved the Parent Trigger Proposal: The Independence Institute, Center for Education Reform, and Pacific Research Institute.

Between the Koch Brothers outright contributions, the ALEC (American Legislative Council) laws they push, and their funding of astroturf groups, these brothers will be hard to contain.

The Castle Rock Foundation has granted $ 650,000 to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) between 1995 and 2011, according to a review of the Bridge Project's Funders data by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD).

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.

ALEC has pushed education vouchers, which use public funds to pay for private schools, for years.

Walden Media, which produced Won't Back Down and funded the charter — school documentary Waiting for Superman, is owned by Philip Anschutz, an ALEC supporter and prominent Tea Party funder.

Other issues that ALEC, the group funded by the ultra-conservative Koch Brothers, pushes includes Arizona's anti-immigrant law, Florida's «stand your ground law,» that seeks to protect people who shoot «suspicious individuals,» and the flurry of laws aimed at suppressing Latino and African - American voters.

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.

ALEC is funded by some of the biggest fossil fuel companies in the world, like Koch.

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.

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.

He's a major funder of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and he has also bankrolled the Club for Growth.

The roots of Proposition 305 can be traced to the Koch - funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

A passel of interlinked right - wing groups that fund and participate in ALEC, including the Koch's astroturf group, Americans for Prosperity, the DeVos family's American Federation for Children, and the State Policy Network's Goldwater Institute joined the push to expand the state's voucher program (even though its small scale voucher plan was not popular with parents and not yet full.)

They are heavily funded by a handful of millionaires and billionaires and passed through groups like Stand for Children, ALEC, Democrats for Education Reform, and 50CAN, who use their funding to advocate for privatization, for high - stakes testing, for evaluating teachers by test scores, and for stripping teachers of any due process so that experienced teachers may easily be replaced by newcomers who will work at entry - level wages and leave without ever collecting a pension.

These, of course, include the Koch Brothers and the American Legislative Exchange Council (better known as ALEC) who advance the privatization of public education and are funding many school choice campaigns.

Koch Industries has had a seat on ALEC's «Private Enterprise» board for years, while Koch network entities like Freedom Partners, Americans for Prosperity, and Koch - funded «think tanks» have seats on a number of task forces where they get a vote on bills.

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.»

Further fueling these conflict of interest charges, Xcel Energy has been a corporate funder of ALEC in the past and contributes hundreds of thousands of dollars each year to EEI.

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.

«[B] ecause winning the public policy debate will continue to have a tremendous positive effect on the «bottom line» of your company,» Brunelli tells Malmgren (and, presumably, ALEC's other corporate funders).

Exxon said it cut off funding for some groups opposed to climate change in 2005, but the oil giant continued to support the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)-- groups that have lobbied against climate - related government policies.

The Madison Group, the predecessor to the State Policy Network (SPN)-- which was exposed recently in a Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) report, followed by the release of funding proposals detailing its coordination by The Guardian — was «launched by the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC... and housed in the Chicago - based Heartland Institute.»

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

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

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.

The Heartland Institute was formerly heavily funded by ExxonMobil and Koch Industries, just like ALEC was at the time that Liddy Bourne's committee devised the «Environmental Literacy Improvement Act.»

They misrepresent the state of climate science, reciting talking points that can be found on any of a number of denialist websites, or heard at conferences sponsored by fossil - fuel funded groups such as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

Caterpillar has been a corporate funder of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)[3].

The Washington Times also happens to be closely tied to ALEC — a Koch Brothers - funded organization that promotes climate change denialism and subverts efforts to incentivize renewable energy.

Among the early projects of the ACU were the Conservative Victory Fund, a campaign war chest, created in 1970, and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), established in 1975.

Many of ACSH's funders also have ties to the controversial ALEC, which CMD has called a «corporate bill mill.»

Additionally, the documents list funding a number of ALEC events including the following: [63]

ALEC receives funding from the Canadian company TransCanada, which is aiming to build the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.