UTAH Prepares for 2012 Elections and ALEC Annual Meeting

Had to chuckle after I had read this article.

The Annual Meeting of the American Legilsative Exchange Counil (ALEC) will be in Salt Lake City next year.

Here's an article about a meeting about ALEC in Salt Lake City that was held on Saturday, 12/3.

The comments on the article are interesting -

Utah Dems warn of push to erode public employee unions

By david montero
The Salt Lake Tribune

First published Dec 03 2011 05:21PM

Updated Dec 3, 2011 11:31PM

State lawmakers carrying anti-collective-bargaining legislation are simply “water boys” for corporations with an ultimate goal to privatize services ranging from garbage pickup to firefighters, Democrats charged at a meeting Saturday.

Jan Johnson, executive director of the Utah Alliance of Government Employees, told a crowd of about 130 gathered at the Red Lion Hotel that the American Legislative Exchange Council provides corporations with access to lawmakers by charging the companies fees upward of $750,000 “depending on what they want to buy.”

While the Democrats were blasting ALEC — which will hold its annual meeting in Salt Lake City in 2012 — they were also urging people to run for office in Utah to try to restore a balance of power in a state that is tilted heavily toward the GOP.
Read the whole article here.

ALEC 39th Annual Meeting

July 25 - 28, 2012

Salt Palace Convention Center

100 Southwest Temple

Salt Lake City, UT, United States

Hotels:

Marriott Downtown

Hilton Salt Lake City Center

Grand America Hotel

Utah has a lot of work to do.  Utah has a lot of legislators that probably belong to ALEC.  The combined listing of ALEC Exposed legislators and the one from Daily Kos shows the following known people from Utah that have or have had an affiliation with ALEC.

The sad thing is we all know there are more people in Utah associated with ALEC, there's always more ALECers - but they hide their ALEC membership, they lie about their ALEC membership - because they know belonging to ALEC is wrong.

Stuart	Adams
Jeff	Alexander
Roger	Barrus
Curt	Bramble
Katherine	Bryson
Davdi	Clark
Greg J	Curtis
Margaret	Dayton
Brad L	Dee
Marda	Dillree
Mike	Dmitrich
Bradley	Draw
Julie	Fisher
Gage	Froerer
Kevin S	Garn
Keith	Grover
Chris	Herrod
Lyle	Hillyard
Kory M	Holdaway
Eric K	Hutchings
Ken	Ivory
Scott K	Jenkins
Todd E	Kiser
Peter	Knudson
Daniel	Liljenquist
Rebecca D.	Lockhart
Mark B	Madsen
Alberta	Mansell
Mike	Morley
Wayne	Niederhauser
Ralph	Okerland
Steve	Poulton
Paul	Ray
Stuart	Reid
Dean	Sanpei
Jennifer M	Seelig
Martin	Stephens
Howard	Stephenson
David	Ure
Stephen H.	Urquhart
John L	Valentine
Michael	Waddoups
R Curt	Webb
Ryan	Wilcox
Carl	Wimmer