In addition to the multiple meetings across the United States, the American Legislative Exchange Council also promotes their extremist right wing agenda through:
Monthly magazine issued to members
Email newsletters issued to members
Amicus briefs before all levels of the court system in the Untied States
Letters written to the leaders of the US Congress promoting ALEC agendas
Editorials published in local newspapers promoting the ALEC agenda
Written and verbal ALEC "expert" testimony before government officials,
on various corporate issues around the world
From a 1992 ALEC brochure
ALEC's goal is to ensure that legislative members are fully
armed with the information, research and ideas they need to win in the
legislative arena. Its publications keep members up-to-date on emerging trends
and provide in-depth analyses on issues at the state level.
And they promise their "legislatively challenged" US members that they will be to help them pass the extremist right wing ALEC agenda - just with a request through email or a phone call. Basically it is a "Have ALEC propaganda, Will Travel" to any state legislature across the US.
In ALEC’s ENERGY,
ENVIRONMENT, AND ECONOMICS: A Guide for State Legislators, The Fifth Edition it
states:
It is our hope that this guide
will help state legislators as they engage in climate change and energy debates
in state houses around the country. As you engage in these debates and if ALEC
can help, please contact Daniel Simmons, ALEC’s Natural Resources Task Force
Director, at 202-466-3800 or dsimmons@alec.org and I will assist you in any way
possible.
Inside ALEC
This monthly magazine highlights
the efforts of legislators and/or private sector members in regards to model
legislation. ALEC’s staff would be delighted to assist you in connecting with
these legislative or private sector champions.
Legacy Brochure
The following benefits will be
extended to Legacy Members, after the Charter membership limit is met:
Direct access to a designated ALEC staff member for assistance.
2005 State Legislators’ Guide to Health Insurance Solutions
and Glossary
Now is the time to act. You have
a mandate from your constituencies to tackle health insurance problems. The
Council for Affordable Health Insurance and the American Legislative Exchange
Council exist to help you find solutions. Use this Guide, and use us, too.
For further information contact
Jim Frogue, Health and Human Services Task Force Director, American Legislative
Exchange Council (ALEC), at 202-466-3800,
ALEC is here to help you.
Please contact Amy Kjose at (202) 742-8510 or
akjose@alec.org.
Legislator Recruitment Brochure
ALEC’s policy staff provides
research, policy analysis, scholarly articles, reference materials, legislative
bill tracking, and expert testimony on a wide spectrum of issues.
For the legislator that is so challenged – they can’t interpret
ALEC “copy and paste” legislation – we will send an expert from Washington to Alaska
to cover your ALEC butt – becauseALECcan.
Here's an example from 2010 when ALEC sent a staffer from Washington DC to Alaska to push the extremist ALEC right wing agenda - because evidently, their member couldn't get the job done.
ALASKA
STATE LEGISLATURE
HOUSE JUDICIARY STANDING COMMITTEE
March 11, 2010
1:48 p.m.
http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/get_single_minute.asp?house=H&session=26&comm=JUD&date=20100311&time=1348
mp3 file is available for the two hour meeting.
SUBJECT – Hearing on HJR35
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 35
Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska
prohibiting passage of laws that interfere with direct payments
for health care services and the right to purchase health care
insurance from a
privately owned company, and
that compel a
person to participate in a health
care system.
POSITION STATEMENT:
Provided comments in favor of HJR 35
CHRISTIE HERRERA,
Director
Health and Human
Services Task Force
American Legislative
Exchange Council (ALEC)
Washington, D.C.
POSITION STATEMENT:
Provided comments in favor of HJR 35.
2:20:13 PM
CHRISTIE
HERRERA, Director, Health
and Human Services
Task
Force, American Legislative
Exchange Council (ALEC), relayed
that the ALEC applauds HJR 35 - which
is modeled after "our own,
'freedom of choice in healthcare Act,' now in ... 38
states"
because the ALEC
believes that it will ensure continued access
to health
services; that when
government controls healthcare
dollars, it makes
treatment decisions based on what's best for
government; and
that patients, not bureaucrats, should decide
what's best for patients.
The ALEC also applauds HJR 35
because
the ALEC believes
that the resolution would stop mandates that
just don't work. She
indicated that although the ALEC
believes
it's important for
people to have health insurance
coverage, it
also believes that a government requirement to purchase it would
be ineffective, bureaucratic,
and costly. For
example, in
Massachusetts, which
has mandated the
purchase of health
insurance since 2006,
such insurance cost 40 percent more than
in the rest of the country],
a third of the population still
doesn't have coverage,
it's harder for the newly-insured
to see
a physician,
emergency room usage has
increased by 17 percent,
and legislators expect a $2
billion to $4 billion shortfall over
the next decade.
MS. HERRERA
relayed that the ALEC
also believes that HJR 35
would help Alaskans
shield themselves from the proposed
federal
healthcare-reform legislation, and from any attempt by the State
of Alaska
to prohibit direct payment for
medical care, and that
it would result in a
federalism clash if Congress passes a law
that either
forces people to purchase
insurance or prohibits
direct payments. On
the latter point,
she offered her
understanding that
the U.S. Supreme Court has
already ruled in
favor of the states
when they take
steps to protect their
citizens'
freedoms. She then offered
her belief that
the
problem of people
seeking medical services but
refusing to
purchase health insurance is going to exist anyway regardless of
whether HJR 35 passes and
its proposed changes to the Alaska
State Constitution are then ratified by the voters; "even if ...
a mandate did solve
the 'free-rider' problem, we would still
be
forced to pay for
the newly-insured with subsidies to purchase
the required insurance," she
added, and offered
her
understanding of
what the provisions of the
proposed federal
healthcare-reform
legislation might entail and how they
might
affect a low-income family of four.
MS. HERRERA offered
her belief that HJR 35 won't
affect federal
programs - such as
Medicare and Medicaid - or that it would
tie
the hands of legislators thereby preventing them from addressing
possible changes to
such federal programs.
Instead, she
ventured, HJR 35 would ensure that the cornerstone of any future
reforms is the
preservation of patients' rights.
She offered
her understanding
that a study performed by
the Cato Institute
estimates that the
proposed federal healthcare-reform
legislation would
require more than 100
million Americans to
drop their
existing coverage and buy
more expensive coverage
that they may not
want or need. She concluded by reiterating
that the ALEC applauds HJR 35.
the ALEC applauds HJR 35
- which is modeled after "our own, 'freedom of choice in healthcare Act,'
she offered
her understanding
She then offered
her belief
she added,
and offered her understanding
MS. HERRERA offered her belief
She offered her understanding
She concluded by
reiterating that the ALEC applauds HJR 35
SHE WORKS FOR ALEC.
SHE IS PAID FOR BY ALEC
SHE IS A MOUTHPIECE OF ALEC
SHE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT ALASKA!!!!
SHE ONLY CARE ABOUT
”ALEC MODEL LEGISLATION”
"our own, 'freedom of choice in healthcare Act,'
”ALEC MODEL LEGISLATION”
"our own, 'freedom of choice in healthcare Act,'
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