Sentences with phrase «push alec»

The current attacks on the EPA Clean Power Plan appear to use the same playbook: publish a BHI report and amplify via an SPN affiliate to push ALEC model legislation.

«Next year the legislative leadership will again push an ALEC agenda that favors corporate executives» interests over the values of working West Virginians, a plan that includes privatization.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The ABCs of ALEC's education push is about anything but children in public schools.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.)

At ALEC today, private companies like the scandal - plagued K12 Inc. which are supported by U.S. taxpayers and pay their CEOs millions in annual salaries ($ 4 million in 2017) are pushing hard for the privatization of U.S. schools so they can rake in more profits.

Together, Jones and the Show - Me Institute — backed with Sinquefield cash, and using ALEC model legislation — have pushed an education privatization agenda in the state.

One might think that Tobin, a former member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), would be well aware of the conservative push to «let the market decide.»

According to Gabe Elsner, executive director of watchdog group the Energy & Policy Institute, ALEC supplies «model» legislation to politicians at the state level who then push efforts to enact the laws as written by the group's utility and fossil fuel industry representatives.

The American Petroleum Institute, the US Chamber of Commerce, ALEC, and other influential organizations continue to push pro-corporate, anti-environmental agendas.

When the anti-sea level legislation was pushed through by State Senator David Rouzer (a leader of the state's ALEC delegation), NC - 20's chair declared to the Independent, «God Bless him.

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.»

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.

Some of the wage - crushing «model bills» pushed through ALEC include:

No, we're not talking about the right - wing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) efforts to push radically conservative corporative legislation through state legislative bodies (such as ALEC re climate change) but Alec Baldwin.

After a series of defeats in 2013, ALEC scored its first major victory for this agenda this year, as Ohio voted to freeze its renewables mandate, with legislation pushed by ALEC board member state senator Bill Seitz.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), represented by Lisa B. Nelson, was among 22 groups represented in a «Coalition» open letter pushing back against what the Heartland Institute describes as an «affront to free speech.»

[49][50][51] Although it claims that it has not lobbied for bills that extend or increase sentences for prisoners, for many years GEO Group participated in the task force of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) that pushed bills that lengthened time in prison, such as so - called «truth - in - sentencing» and «three strikes» legislation, as models for states to adopt across the nation.

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.

ALEC is aggressively pushing a model resolution designed to stop states and municipalities from requiring dark - money groups that spend millions to influence elections to disclose their donors, and has launched the misnamed Center to Protect Free Speech to lobby for it.

The overall effort being pushed by the hyper - partisan ALEC and its allies left law school professor David Super of Georgetown University shaking his head.

With Republicans in control of 32 state legislatures, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has been actively pushing the idea of a second Constitutional Convention to rewrite the U.S. Constitution.

ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) is an example where even some RINOs and Tea Party members are pushing back against ALEC's «cookie cutter drafted legislation» (one size fits all) to push back and even eliminate renewable energy efforts.

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.

ALEC has no business trying to use their political muscle to push their views onto States.

Inside ALEC's push against transparency laws and link to Wisconsin's criminal investigation surrounding Scott Walker.

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.

ALEC's own leaked documents confirm it has lost at least 60 corporate members and 400 legislative members, thanks to ALEC's role in pushing Stand Your Ground laws and Voter ID legislation that keeps people with social minority status away from the voting booth.

In 2013, ALEC pushed model legislation to repeal renewable energy portfolio standards in over a dozen states, though it failed across the board.

The biggest push is coming from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a 40 - year - old industry group with free - market views that drafts and pushes legislation and that sees renewable energy mandates as an overreach of government authority.

Ford has been a member of ALEC's Civil Justice Task Force, which pushes what it calls «tort reform» and others have called «tort deform,» changes to personal injury laws.

Over at least the past five years, the Kochs and Koch - backed groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) have been pushing to increase the «intent» standard for criminal violations, particularly for so - called «white collar» crime and executive suite criminals.

ALEC continues to push a corporate - driven school privatization agenda through legislatures across the country.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which is centrally involved with pushing environmentally destructive legislation on behalf of the fossil fuel industry, today complained that «Earth Day has been a largely somber event» when it should be «a celebration of the wonderful achievements humankind has made in cleaning and greening the planet,» wrote Todd Wynn, ALEC Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force Director.

ALEC is one front group that the utility industry is using to push for changes to net metering policies — a valuable ally for the utilities to lobby state legislators from across the country.

Just like the corporate members of ALEC are protected from civil liability when they commit wrongdoing, thanks to laws written and pushed by ALEC's civil justice task force, chaired by our friend Victor Schwartz, the General Counsel of the American Tort Reform Association.

First, to refresh, ALEC is the secretive so - called «charity» run and funded by big corporations that subsidize the involvement of conservative state lawmakers, who then push for enactment of model bills written by the corporations who pay them.

ALEC has been pushing model legislation to limit AG's power to hire outside counsel.