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ALEC and into
The New York Times wrote that " special interests effectively turn ALEC ’ s lawmaker members into stealth lobbyists, providing them with talking points, signaling how they should vote, and collaborating on bills affecting hundreds of issues like school vouchers and tobacco taxes.
ALEC responded by denying that it engaged in lobbying, and arguing that liberal groups were attacking ALEC because " they don't have a comparable group that is as effective as ALEC in enacting policies into law.
:# March 2, 2004: " Dr No and the spectre of ALEC ": An investigation into the influence of the American Legislative Exchange Council in the Wisconsin legislature.

ALEC and being
The American Legislative Exchange Council ( ALEC ) identifies Thompson in the form of one of its success stories, being important to the organization in its formative years.

ALEC and Conservative
In 1975, under the auspices of the American Conservative Union, ALEC registered as a federal non-profit agency.

ALEC and State
As part of the report, Mark Pocan, a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly was identified as a legislator " trying to expose ALEC ’ s fingerprints ".

ALEC and project
* ALEC Exposed project website

ALEC and by
ALEC was the subject of the September 29, 2012 edition of Moyers & Company hosted by Bill Moyers.
According to Bloomberg News, ALEC is funded by, among others, Koch Industries Inc. and Exxon Mobil.
ALEC was the subject of the September 29, 2012 edition of Moyers & Company hosted by Bill Moyers.
In addition, there is a Spanish pop punk version recorded by ALEC, and a Rick Astley mashup.
Legislation to impose restrictive photo ID requirements has been prepared by the conservative organization ALEC and circulated to conservative state legislators.

ALEC and state
The American Legislative Exchange Council ( ALEC ) is a 501 ( c )( 3 ) American organization composed of conservative legislators, businesses and foundations which produces model legislation for state legislatures and promotes free-market and conservative ideas.
ALEC also serves as a networking tool among state legislators, allowing them to research the handling and " best practices " of policy in other states.
ALEC By-Laws specify that, "... full membership shall be open to persons dedicated to the preservation of individual liberty, basic American values and institutions, productive free enterprise, and limited representative government, who support the purposes of ALEC, and who serve, or formerly serve, as members of a state or territorial legislature, the United States Congress, or similar bodies outside the United States.
* On state economic competitiveness, ALEC has published, Rich States, Poor States, now in its fourth edition.
The American Legislative Exchange Council ( ALEC ), a national association of state legislators, may pass a resolution opposing national standards.
Kiffmeyer is also the current state chairwoman for the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council ( ALEC ) and serves as the only board member of the Minnesota Voter's Alliance, a political group that lobbied for the Minnesota voter ID bill which Kiffmeyer authored in the Minnesota House of Representatives.

ALEC and .
Since 2011, it has also produced news stories about the American Legislative Exchange Council as part of CMD's ALEC Exposed investigation and about Wisconsin's policy controversies, as CMD is located in the state's capital.
PRWatch. org is a sister site of CMD's ALECexposed. org ( a clearinghouse for information about bills and news about ALEC ), SourceWatch. org ( a specialized wiki that includes original research on corporations, policymakers, and policies, especially on environmental and economic issues ), BanksterUSA. org ( a website devoted to analysis of the financial crisis and Wall Street reform proposals ), and FoodRightsNetwork. org ( which is focused on information about the use of sewage sludge on crops ).
ALEC provides a forum for corporations, foundations and legislators to collaborate on " model bills "— draft legislation which provide examples of language that can be adopted in actual bills.
ALEC has produced model legislation on issues such as reducing corporate regulation and taxation, tightening voter identification rules, streamlining environmental protections, and promoting gun rights.
In a special report on ALEC, Bill Moyers summarized it as " an organization hiding in plain sight, yet one of the most influential and powerful in American politics.
Henry Hyde, who later became a U. S. Congressman, and Lou Barnett, who later became National Political Director of Ronald Reagan's Political Action Committee, also helped to found ALEC.
ALEC also claims approximately 300 corporate, foundation, and other private-sector members.
The chairmanship of ALEC is a rotating position, with a new legislator appointed to the position each year.
The current chair of ALEC is David Frizzell, a member of the Indiana House of Representatives.

first and came
It took them an hour before they came to the first houses of Kelseyville.
When his head came down, Curt grabbed him by the hair and catapulted him head first into the wall.
I ducked just as the first strand broke somewhere down the line and came whipping over the sideboards.
In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.
And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.
At this point Mrs. Frances Cupply, one of Wright's handsome daughters by his first wife, came from the house and tried to calm Miriam as she tore down a no visitors sign and smashed the glass pane on another sign with a rock.
Their first collaboration came close.
The first royalty whom Mama ever waited on in the White House was Queen Marie of Rumania, who came to a State dinner given in her honor on October 21, 1926.
Although this kind of wholesale objection came at first from some men who were not technically Puritans, still, once the Puritans gained power, they climaxed the affair by passing the infamous ordinance of 1642 which decreed that all `` public stage-plays shall cease and be forborne ''.
The first time I went there he asked me to bring him water from Flagler's well -- water that reminded him of his first days in the mountains -- and before I came the next time I filled a five-gallon jug for him and brought it to the hospital.
Mr. Burlingham, -- `` C.C.B. '' -- wrote to me once about an old friend of mine, S. K. Ratcliffe, whom I had first met in London in 1914 and who also came out for a week-end in Weston.
When I first came across Samuel Johnson's pronouncement, `` the remedy for the ills of life is palliative rather than radical '', it seemed to me to sum up the profoundest of political and social truths.
In 1949 the Council of Europe came into existence, a purely consultative parliamentary body but the first organ of political rather than functional unity.
I hated you when I first came in.
Mr. Devey first came to Sprague in 1953 as a Product Specialist in the Field Engineering Department, coming from the Office of Naval Research in Washington, D. C., where he was an electronic scientist engaged in undersea warfare studies.
( Gastronomes have long argued about which came first, the Palace's or Antoine's.
But not even our first pool-side gatherings came anywhere near those rosy fantasies.
The first attempts to isolate TSH came a decade later, when Janssen and Loeser ( 1931 ) used trichloroacetic acid to separate the soluble TSH from insoluble impurities.
Which came first??
Here he put a small man, whose missing hands might have left his function doubtful, until comparison with the first sketches showed that when the artist came back to the beginning, this was to be the closing figure of the party of `` forty-niners '', and was to hold a basket.
The first productive period came when he was considering poetry as a vocation, before he had decided to write fiction for a living ( in his note for Who's Who he wrote that he `` wrote verses 1865 - 1868 ; ;
When the chance came, they first eliminated cold cereal once a week, then gradually converted to hot fresh-ground cereal every day.
O'Banion's first conflict with the police came in 1909, at seventeen, when he was committed to Bridewell Prison for three months for burglary ; ;
At the end of the performance, Dave and Max came out into the brilliantly lit foyer among a surge of gowned and tuxedoed first nighters.

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