Iowa - Here's Your ALEC Answer

Found this on the GlobeGazette.com “Ask Us” Section

No membership list

Q: Are or have any of the current candidates for the Iowa’s four congressional districts, either incumbents or challengers, ever been members of ALEC, The American Legislative Exchange Council?

A: ALEC is a non-profit organization which describes itself as “a constructive forum for state legislators and private sector leaders to discuss and exchange practical, state-level public policy issues” that “focus on free markets, limited government and constitutional division of powers between the federal and state governments.”

The organization does not release a list of members. Some politicians have identified themselves as members, and some names have become known through challenges to its tax-exempt status, but no complete membership list is available to the public.

Evidently the GlobeGazette’s lawyers told them to drop that one like a hot potato.  No references to check the internet.  Maybe it was more like - don’t help out that person – one of the ALEC legislators and corporate members does not want that information released.

BTW:  The question on flea collars got eight paragraphs.

Figured whoever asked the question wanted an answer.

And an answer they deserve.

Hopefully they will find it in this list of past and present Iowa ALEC members and those with very close ties to ALEC.

Dwayne	Alons
Richard T	Anderson
Richard	Arnold
McKinley	Bailey
Brad	Banks
Merlin E	Bartz
Jerry	Behn
Deborah L	Berry
Gary	Bldgett
Leonard L	Boswell
Nancy	Boettger
Clifford	Branstad
Terry T	Branstad
Danny C	Carroll
Ron J	Corbett
Mark	Davitt
Betty	DeBoef
Kenneth	DeGroot
Dave	Deyoe
Richard	Drake
Robert S	Dvorsky
Russell J	Eddie
Joe	Ertl
Greg	Forristall
Theresa	Garman
Robert	Gedded
Chuck	Gipp
Sandy	Greiner
Sue	Greiner
Michael E	Gronstal
Chris	Hagenow
James	Hahn
Roger	Halvorson
Darrell R	Hanson
Mary Ann	Hanusa
David	Hartusch
David	Heaton
H K	Hedge
Joan L	Hester
Lance	Horbach
Geri D	Huser
Stewart E	Iverson
Elizabeth	Jacobs
David	Johnson
Tim L	Kapucian
Doris J	Kelly
James	Kersten
John P	Kibbie
Steve	King
Jarad	Klein
Kevin	Koester
Mary E	Kramer
Jeffrey M	Lamberti
James	Lind
Mark S	Lofgren
Mary	Lundby
Andrew J	McKean
Larry	McKibbben
Derryl	McLaren
Dolores	Mertz
Janet S	Metcalf
James	Meyer
Linda	Miller
Tom H	Miller
Pat	Murphy
Richard E	Myers
Steven	Olson
Ross C	Paustian
Kim	Pearson
Dawn	Pettengill
Brian J	Quirk
Christopher C	Rants
Robert	Renken
Jack	Rife
Bill	Royer
Thomas R	Sands
Renee	Schulte
James	Seymour
Brent J	Siegrist
Charles	Soderberg
Gregory A	Spenner
Steven E	Sukup
Annette	Sweeney
Phil	Tyrrell
Linda	Upmeyer
Jamie	VanFossen
Tom	Vilsak
Ralph	Watts
Dick	Weidman
Jerry	Welter
Ron	Wieck
Brad	Zaun
Mark	Zieman

PLEASE

Do not

elect or re-elect or appoint

ALEC members

or those losely affiliated with ALEC

to ANY

state or federal office.