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It also does not include money spent by corporate lobbyists at special parties for lawmakers or state delegations at some of the most expensive restaurants in San Diego, nor money spent by some of the corporations to fund the trips for state lawmakers to San Diego for what ALEC has dubbed «scholarships.»

For examples of what ALEC has already been busy with this year, check out PR Watch's roundup of 77 anti-environmental ALEC bills that have popped up in state legislatures in 2013, supporting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline project, rolling back renewable energy incentives and making it illegal to document animal abuse, among other issues.

Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (or what ALEC calls «educational savings accounts») work like school vouchers because they siphon off public taxpayer money for private and religious schools.

Not exact matches

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.

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?

What you never hear at ALEC is any discussion about improving public education.

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What's ALEC?

If we rate only a D +, I truly hate to imagine what it must be like in states where her ALEC - aligned agenda has advanced further!

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.

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.

In that climate of fear about the future, ALEC's Rich States, Poor States offers an elixir that purports to cure what ails you — like snake oil salesmen in days of yore.

The NCRP report also makes abundantly clear that ALEC's role is to facilitate what most would define as lobbying.

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.

What the excellent Times coverage missed is that key language in these anti-science bills all eminated from a single source: the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC.

11 Alive investigators examined ALEC's status as a nonprofit versus what former a ALEC member describes as a «corporate bill mill.»

«What's Behind ALEC's Denial That It Denies Climate Change?

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.»

ALEC — which brings corporate lobbyists and state legislators together at annual meetings for networking, seminars and voting on what it dubs «model policies» — maintains close connections with the Koch network.

What hasn't been reported is the complementary role of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has peddled laws written by corporate lobbyists through state legislatures that make it easy for its dirty energy members, such as Exxon, Koch Industries and Peabody coal, to influence how climate science is presented to students.

Exxon has paid substantial sums to serve in a leadership capacity at ALEC, both on the group's corporate board and on energy - related issue task forces, where corporations introduce «model» legislation and hold de facto veto power over what bills are subsequently promoted by ALEC.

What does not build trust is the «cookie cutter» wording legislation written by ALEC (to eliminate / restrict renewables) introduced in numerous legislatures.

Nowhere in the EPA plan, ALEC claims, does it say what the climatic benefits of limiting emissions from coal - fired power plants would be.

At the end of any given year, the ALEC bill would allow states to bank any extra energy generated from RECs beyond what the RPS law requires and use them to meet RPS targets for the following year.

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.

It is unknown what Ford Motor Company, which CMD recently exposed as an ALEC funder and which produces both hybrid and plug - in vehicles, thinks of this bill.

A document titled «Roles and Responsibilities» is also listed in the agenda, but it is not known what this contains, how it varies from the «job description» published by the Guardian, and if it is any better or worse than having a Peabody Energy lobbyist school legislators in their responsibilities to an organization like ALEC.

«It is a disturbing development to see a politically motivated group like ALEC join forces with the shadowy palm oil lobby from Malaysia and Indonesia as well as with huge agribusiness companies Cargill and Wilmar to pressure the EPA to overturn what is supposed to be a science - based decision made in the best interests of the American people,» said Laurel Sutherlin with the Rainforest Action Network, in a statement.

Yet what Koch - affiliated groups like ALEC and the American Energy Alliance manage to do is take policies that save jobs and strengthen (clean) energy security and make them all about President Obama's agenda: any show of support for clean energy, goes their pro-fossil fuel line of reasoning, is a direct endorsement of climate action / the existence of climate change, and thus can not be tolerated.

What's most suspicious is that seven of the ten Ohio Senators co-sponsoring SB 315 are ALEC members, as are 26 of the 35 co-sponsoring Representatives.

Regardless of the varying influence of groups like ALEC and CSG forging Big Business state laws, ExxonMobil is getting what it wants.

If Duke doesn't like ALEC's history shilling for climate change deniers, nor the National Rifle Association, nor the Republican party's voter disenfranchisement strategies, what is making Duke stay?

The cash flows to what some scholars call a «troika» of organizations: the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the State Policy Network (SPN) and the Koch's Americans for Prosperity.