tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4071703613790953732024-02-07T09:33:34.039-06:00Because I Can2old2carehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05111045634666075672noreply@blogger.comBlogger1992125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407170361379095373.post-64945048423835384822016-03-21T16:29:00.004-05:002016-03-21T16:33:50.129-05:00If Hillary is the nominee and she loses, it is her fault.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]-->I spend a lot of time lurking around the interweb<br />
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Going through Twitter feeds</div>
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Going through news articles on the MSM and alternative sites</div>
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Going through public Facebook pages</div>
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And</div>
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Listening to left-wing radio</div>
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One of the spurious themes I am seeing repeated over and
over again<br />
is that non-Republican people must vote for Hillary if she wins the
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To that I respond</div>
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Bullshit!</div>
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This is the United
States of America</div>
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People can vote</div>
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People can choose to vote for candidate x or candidate y</div>
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People can choose NOT to vote</div>
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If Hillary is the nominee and she loses, it is her fault.</div>
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Any candidate, in order to win, is responsible for building a
base of supporters to elect them.</div>
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If Hillary can not build that base – she does not deserve to
win.</div>
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If her campaign can not build that base – she does not deserve to
win. </div>
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If her followers can not build that base – she does not
deserve to win.</div>
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If Hillary is the nominee and she loses, it is her fault.</div>
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It is the responsibility of Hillary, her campaign and her
followers to ensure her victory</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><b>and no one else.</b></span></span></div>
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You can threaten people with fear</div>
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Fear of a Republican president</div>
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Fear of Supreme Court nominees</div>
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Fear of whatever</div>
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But listen carefully people – Fear does not motivate people
when it comes to elections.</div>
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It’s very easy to point fingers and say “It is their fault
we lost.”</div>
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Their fault - really? </div>
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Bullshit!</div>
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It's her fault - its the fault of her campaign. </div>
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If Hillary is the nominee and she loses, it is her fault.</div>
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If Hillary is the nominee and she loses, it is the fault of
her campaign..</div>
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If you want to ensure her victory</div>
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Rather than spending an inordinate amount of time telling
people they have to vote for her</div>
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Get off your asses and go recruit and register people to
vote for her</div>
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If you don’t, YOU are equally responsible for her loss – not some
unknown group of people.</div>
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It is March, the election is in November</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you can’t get
enough people in seven months</div>
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That is proof Hillary didn’t deserve to win.</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>If Hillary is the nominee</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>and she loses,</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>it is her fault</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>and
the fault of her campaign.</b></span></span></div>
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2old2carehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05111045634666075672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407170361379095373.post-15696127101519778682015-02-28T12:26:00.001-06:002015-02-28T12:26:44.966-06:00One Way ALEC Wants to Bankrupt Your State<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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As we all know - the sole purpose of ALEC is to benefit and profit of ALEC corporate members.</div>
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Some of the things that ALEC does are meant to destroy your state - and here is one. A slow easy bleed of the money in your state - until your state can no longer afford to exist anymore - unless of course you go begging to AL:EC corporate interests to fund and run your state - also known as Fascism!</div>
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Most are not paying attention to the issue highlighted below.</div>
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This piece of nastiness spreading across the USA gives a whole new meaning to ALEC's espoused "limited government".</div>
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Bankrupt the states and then you can have only one government - Kochistan, Exxonistan, Mobilstan, </div>
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Most are not paying any attention to the destruction being done by the American Legislative Exchange Council with this spreading evil.</div>
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And that makes ALEC happy. Disinterested citizens just make its job of evil nastiness that much easier.</div>
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So here we go ...
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<a href="http://www.peacefuluprising.org/alec-is-fracking-up-our-democracy-20120720" target="_blank">ALEC introduced the Sagebrush Rebellion Act.</a> This bill
seizes BLM lands for the states, letting industry-friendly states like Utah lease or sell
formerly public lands to mining companies without the long review process
mandated by the BLM.</div>
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And this</div>
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2014<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/04/12451/congressman-grijalva-requests-investigation-alecs-role-nv-range-fight#sthash.MlCS01GM.PzvS0pjq.dpuf" target="_blank"> Congressman Raúl Grijalva</a> has asked the U.S. Department of
the Interior to "investigate the role of the American Legislative Exchange
Council (ALEC) in efforts to pass bills at the state level"
that undermine federal authority over state lands and thwart the
agency's duties. </div>
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What's happened so far?<br />
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Nada </div>
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<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/04/12451/congressman-grijalva-requests-investigation-alecs-role-nv-range-fight#sthash.MlCS01GM.PzvS0pjq.dpuf" target="_blank">then-director of ALEC's </a>Energy, Environment and Agriculture
Task Force, Todd Wynn, wrote </div>
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"In 2014, expect more states to press this issue both
in the East and the West as state legislators are likely to continue to work
together through ALEC and other organizations in order to gain back their
land,"</div>
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Gain back "their" land - Federal land is "their" land.<br />
I kinda thought (in a cautiously informed type of way) it was "we the people's " land.<br />
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And they have</div>
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At great risk to your state treasury</div>
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<a href="http://www.capitalpress.com/Nation_World/Nation/20150228/conservation-groups-unite-to-oppose-takeover-of-federal-land#.VPHvB2rKUnc.twitter" target="_blank">In the past few years,</a> efforts by a growing fringe of state
lawmakers to take over national public lands have surfaced in Arizona,
Colorado, Idaho,
Montana, New Mexico,
Nevada, Oregon,
Utah and Wyoming.</div>
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Just a few examples</div>
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ARIZONA</div>
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<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/26/1077954/-Another-ALEC-gambit-Return-federal-land-to-the-states" target="_blank">In Arizona,</a>
Melvin's measure calls for the transfer of lands to the state from the federal
government. He brought the bill to Arizona
after hearing about it late last year from the American Legislative Exchange
Council, an organization that often provides state lawmakers with model
legislation, written by its own staff.</div>
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According to Arizona Senator Sylvia Allen, who serves on
ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force:</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She also believes
the bill would allow the state to lift a new ban on uranium mining on 1 million
acres of public land outside the Grand Canyon.</div>
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MONTANA</div>
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<a href="http://www.hatchmag.com/articles/exposing-effort-seize-americas-public-lands/7712386#.VPHt_DXztRW.twitter" target="_blank">Sadly, that’s just not the case.</a> This isn’t a true
“Sagebrush Rebellion.” It’s a corporate bait-and-switch scheme meant to open America’s
natural resources to immediate extraction. The cash funding these efforts is as
dark as Sauron and the lawmakers pushing these ideas are either blinded by
dogma or they’ve received some support and, quite possibly, some political
funding that comes burdened with expectations.</div>
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After the success in Utah,
ALEC and the Koch-backed, Kansas-based Americans for Prosperity are busy
working their dark magic in other state legislatures. In Montana, they have been joined by Richard
Berman’s spin-off group, the so-called Environmental Policy Alliance that’s
spent the better part of a year trying to trash the reputations of sportsmen
who have championed conservation causes. And now this triumvirate of secretly
funded influence-peddlers has found a Montana
lawmaker willing to carry their water -- one Jennifer Fielder (R), from Thompson Falls. </blockquote>
NEW MEXICO<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<a href="http://www.taosnews.com/news/article_1086d42e-bdea-11e4-9b04-0b789e296388.html#.VPHmqiYb33s.twitter" target="_blank">Two bills introduced in the state legislature</a> would create a
task force to study the feasibility of transferring control of federal lands to
the state. House Bill 291, sponsored by Rep. Yvette Herrell, R-Alamagordo,
would create a 17-member committee to look into “options” for transferring
federal lands to the state, as well as state and federal lands to Indian tribes
and land grants.</blockquote>
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Sen. William Sharer, R-Farmington, has introduced a
companion bill in the Senate.</div>
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In a place like Taos
County, which is about
half federal lands, the impact would be substantial. Federal employees with the
Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management make up a sizable portion of the
local workforce. The feds pay the county government about $1.5 million a year
to cover property tax revenue that can’t be collected on federal lands.</div>
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Herrell and Sharer - both ALEC members
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And besides the economic disaster that was mentioned in the paragraph above. in relation to wages and tax revenue - you have more danger to your state treasury.</div>
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Snips from an Op-Ed from the Jamestown Sun you have these additional threats against
your state – threats being pushed by legislators of the American Legislative
Exchange Council</div>
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<a href="http://www.jamestownsun.com/sports/outdoors/3688697-another-rebellion-horizon" target="_blank">Well, I am no fan of federal agencies,</a> but the notion that state agencies,
like the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC) could
do a better job, is insane. </blockquote>
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The costs alone of
<b>fire suppression</b> and <br />
<b>defending myriad lawsuits </b>against anti-logging groups <br />
[and anti-fracking groups and anti-mining groups]<br />
<b>would bankrupt the State </b><br />
{DNRC estimates it would cost $500 million a year for the state to manage
the 25 million acres of public land the state would magically inherit.
Reservations, wilderness areas and national parks would be exempt.)<br />
"The state can't manage the land it has right now." Which is true.
Some of the most mismanaged, overgrazed lands are sections leased to ranchers
for grazing.<br />
One important point overlooked by promoters of these land transfer schemes
is <b>grazing fees and recreational access</b>. <br />
Also, we hunters battled for years to get access rights to hunt on state
lands and finally achieved that in 1995. However, one may only camp two days on
state-owned lands before having to move camp. How'd you like to embark on a
10-day elk hunt and have to move camp every other day?<br />
Don Allen, CEO of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. Speaking at a
500-person rally in Helena
this month he said, "Let's assume that the states can take over all of the
federal lands. Let's assume that tomorrow the State of California controls all the land in its
borders. <b>How long before the anti-hunting organizations have a ballot
initiative to outlaw regulated hunting</b> in California? I give it five years or
less."</blockquote>
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I also have confidence in the American people nationwide. Public land is
their land too — it does not belong solely to the residents of western states. </blockquote>
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<b>I don’t</b><br />
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And that makes ALEC happy. </div>
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Disinterested citizens just make its job of evil nastiness that much easier.</div>
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<b>In Conclusion</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/26/1077954/-Another-ALEC-gambit-Return-federal-land-to-the-states" target="_blank"><b>ALEC and their political shills are shitting all over the places people love</b>,</a> places that our fragile ecology needs to remain healthy,
and places that serve Arizona's important hospitality sector -- in order to
cuddle the balls of the extractors, who chew up the land, send the profits
elsewhere, and leave us ruined landscapes.</div>
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2old2carehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05111045634666075672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407170361379095373.post-56013698914736660792014-12-21T13:33:00.002-06:002015-01-30T10:21:36.852-06:00For 40+ Years I have been a Democratic sheeple, No MoreFor over 40 years I have pretty much voted a straight Democratic ticket - even when the candidates did not reflect my values.<br />
<br />
I am a liberal progressive.<br />
I <b>am</b> a liberal progressive.<br />
Being a liberal progressive - no longer makes me a Democrat. <br />
Many of the values I hold are similar to those of the Democratic party.<br />
In today's political arena the values of the Democratic party are becoming more and more misaligned with my values.<br />
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The one thing I do know is that I will never vote for a Republican or a ALEC free-market loving libertarian. <br />
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For over 40 years, many times I have voted against my own values - just to support the Democratic party.<br />
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Democratic pundits have warned me that not voting Democratic would hand the election over to the Republicans.<br />
Democratic leaders warn that voters such as me will destroy the party.<br />
<br />
That's the problem for the Democratic Party - it is not my issue. <br />
Voters like me deserve a voice in our government also. <br />
<br />
I only have about 20+ years left to cast my votes.<br />
I will no longer waste them on centrist Democrats who do not hold my values.<br />
I will no longer waste them on Conserva-Dems.<br />
I will no longer waste them on Corporate Democrats.. <br />
I will vote third party unless the Democratic party puts candidates on the ballot that reflect my values also.<br />
I will no longer be a Democratic sheeple - voting a straight Democratic ticket because the Democratic party and their pundits tell me it is the right and just thing to do.<br />
<br />
I <b>am</b> a liberal progressive.<br />
Being a liberal progressive - no longer makes me a Democrat. <br />
Voters like me deserve a voice in our government also.<br />
Nothing can or will change in our government will change until people start voting their values - instead of voting their party.<br />
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And for the rest of my life - I will use my vote to support my liberal progressive values.<br />
If that upsets Democrats reading this - then make sure the candidates that are put on the ballot reflect my values also, and are not centrist right-leaning Democrats, Conserva-Dems or Corporate Democrats.<br />
If that upsets Democrats reading this - then go out and recruit another person who will vote for centrist right-leaning Democrats, Conserva-Dems or Corporate Democrats to replace my vote.<br />
If that upsets Democrats reading this - then do something about it - I say that, cause I know you won't.<br />
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And finally - in regards to being judged by other Dems - do you think I care at this point?<br />
Everyone has the right to vote for whomever they please - so I've heard. <br />
<br />
<b>Belonging to a political party is a choice.</b><br />
<b>Voting with a political party is a choice.</b><br />
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<b>I no longer owe anyone or any party my vote.</b><br />
<b>I will vote my values.</b><br />
<br />
2016<br />
I WILL NOT SUPPORT OR VOTE FOR HILLARY CLINTON - a centrist right-leaning Democrat and Corporate Democrat.<br />
<br />
I will no longer be a Democratic sheeple<br />
- voting Democratic cause the Democratic party or their pundits tell me it is the right and just thing to do.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />2old2carehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05111045634666075672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407170361379095373.post-51271980631416259612014-11-04T11:34:00.003-06:002014-11-04T11:35:13.122-06:00Is Comcast Stealing Your Bandwidth?That's a good question<br />
and you should think about it very seriously especially as more and more things become internet dependent.<br />
<br />
Case in point.<br />
<br />
I hold down a full time job.<br />
The only time I am at home during the day is when I am sick.<br />
<br />
In the past year, I have been home sick 2 days.<br />
On BOTH of those days - at 8am - my internet bandwidth basically disappeared at my home.<br />
<br />
This leads me to believe that Comcast was re-routing the bandwidth to their business customers and away from residential customers during the day.<br />
<br />
At night - I can have multiple livestreams, social media sites and webpages open and running at the same time.<br />
<br />
Today - during the day, I can't tweet and livestream Democracy Now at the same time.<br />
I complained about this in a tweet and I had multiple people come back with replies that the same thing happens to them.<br />
<br />
Think about it.<br />
When Comcast says "up to 50 Mbps" - they evidently mean<br />
residential customers can expect way less that that - during the day.<br />
<br />
I am concerned about this - cause next year I will be home during the day ON A REGULAR basis, which means I will have horseshit bandwidth every day, during business hours.<br />
<br />
Comcast - a piece of shit internet provider - that some of us are forced to use. 2old2carehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05111045634666075672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407170361379095373.post-64002542886249975202014-11-03T08:52:00.001-06:002014-11-03T09:35:42.170-06:00ALEC Is & Should Be A Campaign Issue<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Being a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council
is and should be a campaign issue.</div>
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This past week, a PAC released letters identifying ALEC
members in various states, and ALEC HQ blew a gasket and released a presser –
that is, as usual full of inaccuracies and misleading statements.<br />
<br />
Regardless of whether its dark money or not<br />
THANK YOU to the Patriot Majority for the robocalls and mailers on ALEC legislators. </div>
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<br /></div>
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To ALEC members all I can say is</div>
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Too bad, so sad<br />
You made your ALEC bed, now lie in it</div>
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Oh, how I hope America
will</div>
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#VoteNo2ALEC</div>
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And kick your extremist, conservative, pro-corporate ALEC butts
out of office</div>
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<br /></div>
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On to the real purpose of this entry, ALEC’s response to becoming a
campaign issue.</div>
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<b><a href="http://www.alec.org/alec-statement-on-patriot-majority/" target="_blank">American Legislative Exchange Council Statement on “Patriot Majority”</a></b></div>
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This week, robocalls and letters dropped in Florida, North Carolina,
Ohio, Michigan
and Maine,
targeting state lawmakers who are members of ALEC. The attack letters call ALEC
a secretive “corporate special interest” group that buys politicians with
”lavish, all-expenses-paid vacations.”</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ALEC information
is not secret: financials, policy, draft proposals <br />
and publications are
available online<br />
Meetings are not
closed: anyone can register <br />
Journalists come
to meetings<br />
ALEC meetings are
held in convention center hotels, such as the <br />
Marriott in Kansas
City and Oklahoma City</div>
</blockquote>
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There are some major issues with these misleading statements made by ALEC.<br />
Best get to it. </div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>First </b></span></div>
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ALEC never disputes the statement </div>
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"corporate special interest” group that buys politicians<br />
with
”lavish, all-expenses-paid vacations.”</div>
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Cause it’s true.</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Second</b></span></div>
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It's important for you to realize that only the information that ALEC wants the public to see is on
its webpages.</div>
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On its webpage you will not find</div>
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The ALEC Voter ID bill</div>
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The ALEC Stand Your Ground Bill</div>
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There are many horrific pieces of legislation that ALEC has pushed that are intentionally not posted on the ALEC
webpage.</div>
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Instead of taking credit for the evil they produce – ALEC distances
itself from its role in these horrific pieces of legislature by basically saying<br />
“If its not on our webpage, we didn’t do it”,<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A blatant lie used against activists that
have exposed its legislation.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Third</b></span></div>
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“Meetings” are not open – “meetings” are closed</div>
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The “conference” is open – anyone can register – if you want
to give ALEC your money to go to a few lunches with keynote speakers and maybe
some parties<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/05/289753/wisconsin-dem-kicked-out-alec/" target="_blank"> if ALEC doesn't kick you out first</a>. </div>
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The "meetings" are restricted.</div>
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From the 2014 ALEC Task Force Operating Procedures</div>
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IV. MEMBERSHIP AND MEMBER RESPONSIBILITIES</div>
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A. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The membership of
a Task Force consists of legislators <br />
who are members in good standing of ALEC and <br />
are duly appointed to the Task
Force, in accordance with Section VI (A)<br />
and private sector organizations that
are full members of ALEC, <br />
contribute to the assessment for the Task Force
operating budget, <br />
and are duly appointed to the Task Force, in accordance with
<br />
Section VI (B).</div>
</blockquote>
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</div>
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AND if you think you will just get a hotel room at the “conference
hotel” and just hangout and see who is there – be prepared for <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/01/11230/inside-alec-naked-contempt-press-and-public-scottsdale" target="_blank">ALEC security to kick you out of the hotel – if they don’t like you</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Fourth</b></span></div>
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Notice how they state<br />
“Journalists come to meetings.”<br />
"come to meetings.”<br />
No - they come to the "conference"</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Journalists do show up at the "conference"– but that does NOT mean they get to go into
the “meetings”.</div>
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They can go to keynote speeches – but NOT the “meetings”.</div>
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<br />
In addition – ALEC media rulings state</div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
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ALEC does not allow journalists to register as media for the
purpose of writing a personal blog, or for persons whose news outlet is funded
by an individual; political candidate or party; nonprofit; or activist/lobbying
organization.</div>
</blockquote>
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AND<br />
ALEC staff interprets that ruling very broadly.</div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 48.0pt; text-indent: -30.0pt;">
<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2011<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>“<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/08/10939/journalist-kicked-out-alec-conference-threatened-arrest#sthash.e9zmELWE.dpuf" target="_blank">my [media] application would be denied</a> on the grounds that the Center for Media
and Democracy was an "advocacy organization." -<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/01/11237/alec-politician-claims-alec-meetings-are-open-public-really#sthash.Qaet6aE9.dpuf" target="_blank">Beau Hodai, </a>a staff writer for the print magazine In
These Times, was denied credentials after writing stories critical of ALEC. <br />
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Olivia Ward, an investigative reporter with the Toronto
Star, who was told she could not observe an ALEC meeting about budget policies
even though she had press credentials issued by ALEC for the meeting. -<br />
Al Jazeera America
was also denied press credentials in New
Orleans. – </div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 48.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 48.0pt; text-indent: -30.0pt;">
<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2012<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-alec-stands-its-ground/2013/12/04/ad593320-5d2c-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_story.html" target="_blank"> “Our business meetings are not open</a>, and so the subcommittee meetings and task force
meetings are not open,” explained Bill Meierling,”</div>
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<br /></div>
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</div>
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2013</div>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/12/alec-bans-mother-jones-annual-conference" target="_blank">There were dozens of press credentials laid out</a> on ALEC conference's
check-in table when I arrived Thursday morning. <i>Mother Jones</i>' was not
among them. ALEC's board of directors had refused my request for credentials,
according to spokesman Bill Meierling.<br />
<br />
When asked why I'd been turned away, Meierling pointed to our previous
coverage of ALEC and said it's clear that <i>Mother Jones</i>
"fundamentally hates" ALEC. </blockquote>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Nuff said</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
History of not being friendly to press.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: red;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Fifth and last.</b></span></div>
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ALEC meetings are held in convention center hotels</div>
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Depends on how you define that.<br />
They push the "Marriott" but don't mention these </div>
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<br />
<u>2011 – Annual
Meeting Salt
Lake City</u></div>
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Salt Lake City's Grand
America Hotel, the only AAA Five Diamond hotel in Salt Lake City.</div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfdqtQmKnspxakHICoHSviJZH8d6SwRXAhFoOrjZkBeyY2O35MAmcztQLDL-UPJ7DNWjZ5jFT_y7HdQefJD1eLLWSQZ2F9YhviU56rjoKC14iVn3W0c2hnPLt_glJguphotNk65HpqAVNA/s1600/Salt+lake+-+use.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfdqtQmKnspxakHICoHSviJZH8d6SwRXAhFoOrjZkBeyY2O35MAmcztQLDL-UPJ7DNWjZ5jFT_y7HdQefJD1eLLWSQZ2F9YhviU56rjoKC14iVn3W0c2hnPLt_glJguphotNk65HpqAVNA/s1600/Salt+lake+-+use.gif" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><cite class="_Rm">www.<b>grand</b>america.com/</cite></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>lavish </b></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<u>2011 Winter Meeting - Scottsdale</u></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLzGQ37cyuI-LdP8DgEJac8rlLBZmeMQRvIgEbELHfGJLubU3V3n_3hy_ilrNfffywmN_aGCFSFMTSR8tMU9llPPxX1rYjMYejHXQMw9Q4a-LvjYxemG2CVqammctZAk_PZ7oRcjhFAPOa/s1600/scottsdale.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLzGQ37cyuI-LdP8DgEJac8rlLBZmeMQRvIgEbELHfGJLubU3V3n_3hy_ilrNfffywmN_aGCFSFMTSR8tMU9llPPxX1rYjMYejHXQMw9Q4a-LvjYxemG2CVqammctZAk_PZ7oRcjhFAPOa/s1600/scottsdale.gif" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><cite class="_Rm">kierlandresort.com/</cite></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>lavish </b></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<u>2012 Annual Meeting - Chicago</u></div>
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The Palmer House Hotel is a famous and historic hotel in Chicago in the city's Loop
area. It currently operates under the full name Palmer House - A Hilton Hotel.</div>
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<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLFFvpCefIbNEqsmKcxpaLMpb_Ys0UNcDfyWTKiuPJvpYlUX7jL3VEkgtsI_17-I2K_orz6ZrDHcZVgQpB6AFuf81jSYGL1IfMX2PKzRCQNTZNQ1jxkyhdNqNkISrYM_Lp7VSQWiR9SfuA/s1600/palmer.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLFFvpCefIbNEqsmKcxpaLMpb_Ys0UNcDfyWTKiuPJvpYlUX7jL3VEkgtsI_17-I2K_orz6ZrDHcZVgQpB6AFuf81jSYGL1IfMX2PKzRCQNTZNQ1jxkyhdNqNkISrYM_Lp7VSQWiR9SfuA/s1600/palmer.gif" height="173" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><cite>www.<b>palmerhouse</b>.hilton.com</cite></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnoseid/2014/10/31/palmer-house-a-hilton-hotel-chicagos-historic-landmark-is-as-fresh-as-ever/" target="_blank">As written up in Forbe</a>s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>lavish </b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<u>2013 Annual Meeting - Dallas</u></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
the hotel features a unique Asian-designed atrium lobby
complemented by reflecting pools, greenery and comfortable seating areas.
Hilton Anatole is home to one of the largest Asian art collections in the
world, with more than 1,000 pieces of fine art on display throughout the hotel.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
Spend time browsing this Dallas hotel’s valuable collection
of over 1,000 fine art pieces and antiques dating back as early as 500 BC</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>lavish </b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Going back to where we started<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: red;"><b>First </b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
ALEC never disputes the statement </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
corporate special interest” group that buys politicians<br />
with
”lavish, all-expenses-paid vacations.”</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Cause it’s true.</div>
You have <a href="http://fox2now.com/2014/10/08/missouri-lobbyists-report-costly-meal-differently/" target="_blank">$3,000 state dinners for legislators</a>
paid for by lobbyists.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>lavish</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES </span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">for stupid people willing to believe.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;"><b>#VoteNo2ALEC</b></span> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
2old2carehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05111045634666075672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407170361379095373.post-61009126924543120322014-10-21T21:54:00.001-05:002014-10-21T21:54:34.110-05:00VOTE NO TO ALEC in November<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">respriv.org/voteno2alec/</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><br /></b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="http://respriv.org/voteno2alec/" target="_blank">http://respriv.org/voteno2alec/ </a></b></span><br />
<br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 24.0pt;">#VoteNo2ALEC</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The American Legislative Exchange Council is one nasty,
evil organization.</span></span></i></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The American Legislative Exchange Council hates the
control of the Federal government.</span></span></i></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The American Legislative Exchange Council hates control at
the local level.</span></span></i></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
American Legislative Exchange Council members only want</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">evil ALEC state legislative members to have control.</span></span></i></div>
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2old2carehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05111045634666075672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407170361379095373.post-545236955166409632014-10-05T21:13:00.002-05:002014-10-05T21:15:26.876-05:00Vote No to ALEC to Take Back the HouseThirty days until the mid-term election.<br />
People are wondering - - - wringing their hands - - - - <br />
<br />
What can we do<br />
for the Dems to keep the US Senate<br />
for the Dems to get the US House<br />
<br />
<b>As in the states - one way to go about it - is #<span style="color: blue;">Vote</span>No2<span style="color: red;">ALEC</span></b><br />
<br />
Members of the extremist, pro-corporate American Legislative Exchange Council running for Congress are listed below<br />
90 members running for the US House<br />
9 members running for the US Senate<br />
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<b>ALEC SEAT OPPONENT</b><br />
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For over a decade Roybal-Allard was listed as an ALEC Alum in Congress<br />
In 2011 her name was dropped from the list<br />
Don't know why - her choice - or not?<br />
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Irv Halter</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Mike Coffman</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US </span>House District 6</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Andrew Romanoff</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">FLORIDA</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Jeff Miller</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US </span>House District 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">James Bryan</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Steve Southerland</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US </span>House District 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Gwen Graham</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">John Mica</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US </span>House District 7</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Wesley Neuman</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Bill Posey</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US </span>House District 8</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Gabriel Rothblatt</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Daniel Webster</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US </span>House District 10</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Michael Patrick McKenna</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Dennis Ross</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US </span>House District 15</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Alan Cohn</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Mario Diaz-Balart</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US </span>House District 25</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">UNOPPOSED</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Ileana Ros-Lehtinen</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US </span>House District 27</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">UNOPPOSED</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">GEORGIA</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Lynn Westmoreland</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US </span>House District 4</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">UNOPPOSED</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Tom Price</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US </span>House District 6</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Robert Montigel</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Austin Scott</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US </span>House District 8</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">UNOPPOSED</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Doug Collins</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US </span>House District 9</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">David Vogel</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Barry Loudermilk</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US </span>House District 11</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">UNOPPOSED</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Tom Graves</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US </span>House District 14</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">UNOPPOSED</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">IDAHO</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Raul Labrador</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>1</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Shirley Ringo</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Mike Simpson</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>2</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Richard Stallings</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Jim Risch</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US Senate</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Nels Mitchell</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">ILLINOIS</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Darlene Senger</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>11</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Bill Foster</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Mike Bost</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>12</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Bill Enyart</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Jim Oberweis</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Senate</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Dick Durbin</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">INDIANA</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Jackie Walorski</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House District 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Joe Bock</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Marlin Stutzman</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House District 3</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Justin Kuhnle</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">IOWA</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Steve King</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House District 4</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Jim Mowrer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Joni Ernst</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US Senate</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Bruce Braley</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">KANSAS</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Lynn Jenkins</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>2</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Margie Wakefield</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Kevin Yoder</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>3</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Kelly Kultala</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">KENTUCKY</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Brett Guthrie</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>2</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Ron Leach</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">MARYLAND</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Andy Harris</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>1</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Bill Tilghman</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">MICHIGAN</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Bill Huizenga</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>2</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Dean Vanderstat</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Justin Amash</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>3</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Bob Goodrich</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">John Moolenaar</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>4</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Jeff Holmes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Tim Walberg</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>7</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Pam Byrnes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Mike Bishop</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>8</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Eric Schertzing</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">MINNESOTA</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Erik Paulsen</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">U.S.</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"> </span>House District 3</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Sharon Sund</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">MISSISSIPPI</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">U.S.</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"> </span>House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>1</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Ron Dickey</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Steven Palazzo</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">U.S.</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"> </span>House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>4</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Matt Moore</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">MISSOURI</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Blaine</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"> Leutkemeyer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">U.S.</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"> </span>House District 3</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Courtney Denton</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Vicky Hartzler</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">U.S.</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"> </span>House District 4</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Nate Irvin</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Sam Graves</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">U.S.</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"> </span>House District 6</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Bill Hedge</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Jason Smith</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">U.S.</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"> </span>House District 8</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Barbara Hamill Stocker</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">NEBRASKA</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Adrian Smith</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">U.S.</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"> </span>House District 3</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Mark Sullivan</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">NEVADA</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Crescent Hardy</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">U.S.</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"> </span>House District 4</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Steven Horsford</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">NEW HAMPSHIRE</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Marlinda Garcia</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">U.S.</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"> House District 2 </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Ann Kuster</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">NEW JERSEY</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Frank LoBiondo</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">House District 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Bill Hughes </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Scott Garret</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">House District 5</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Roy Cho</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Rodney Frelinhuysen</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">House District 11</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Mark Dunec </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">NEW MEXICO</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Steve Pearce</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Roxanne Rocky Lara</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">NORTH CAROLINA</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Walter Jones</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">U.S.</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"> House District 3</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Marshall Adame</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">David Rouzer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">U.S.</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"> House District 7</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Jonathan Barfield</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Thom Tillis</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Kay Hagan</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">OHIO</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">John Adams</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>3</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Joyce Beatty</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Jim Jordan</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>4</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Bob Latta</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>5</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Robert Fry</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Bob Gibbs</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>7</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">John Boehner</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>8</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Tom Poetter</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Pat Tibari</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>12</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">David Tibbs</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Steve Stivers</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>15</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Scott Wharton</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">OKLAHOMA</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Frank Lucas</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House District 3</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Frankie Robbins</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Tom Cole</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House District 4</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Bert Smith</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Jim Inhofe</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US Senate</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Matt Silverstein</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">PENNSYLVANIA</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Mike Fitzpatrick</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">U.S.</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"> House - District 8</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Kevin Strouse</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Charles Dent</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">U.S.</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"> House - District 15</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Joseph Pitts</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">U.S.</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"> House - District 16</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Tom Houghton</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">SOUTH CAROLINA</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Joe Wilson</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House District 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Phil Black</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Jeff Duncan</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>District 3</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Barbara Jo Mullis</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Lindsay Graham</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US Senate</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Brad Hutto</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Tim Scott</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US Senate</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Joyce Dickerson</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">SOUTH DAKOTA</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Kristi Noem</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House District 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Scott DesJarlais</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>4</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Diane Black</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>6</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Amos Powers</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Marsha Blackburn</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>7</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Daniel Cramer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Sam Johnson</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House – District 3</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">James Cargas</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Ken Marchant</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Patrick McGehearty</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">VIRGINIA</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>4</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Elliott Fausz</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Ind</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"> William Carr</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Jaime Herrera Beutler</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Bob Dingethal</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Cathy McMorris Rodgers</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House - District 5</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Joe Pakootas</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">W
VIRGINIA</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>2</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">WISCONSIN</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Glenn Grothman</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Mark Harris</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">WYOMING</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">USA</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"> Senate</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Charlie Hardy</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Cynthia Lummis</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">US House </span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">District </span>1</span></div>
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ALEC doesn't show Lummis as an ALEC Alumni in Congress<br />
But she should be - don't know what's going on there.<br />
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<br />2old2carehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05111045634666075672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407170361379095373.post-30661870192328222722014-09-28T11:37:00.002-05:002014-09-28T11:37:59.938-05:00ALEC Influence - Hidden Behind the Curtain<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Many times over the past 4 years we have seen articles and
blog entries that stated that a governor was beholding to the Koch’s or they
were passing legislation by ALEC, or were acting like an ALECer, but we could
never connect them directly to ALEC.</div>
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Reason being is that many of them were not legislators
before they became governor, so they didn’t have a chance to be a documented
ALEC member, or in ALEC tradition, their membership was hidden from view.</div>
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But - - sometimes you will find ALEC hiding behind the curtain
– </div>
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Within the last month – the following connections have been
made by me and fellow researchers and I thought you should know about them </div>
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<b>Richard Bagger to NJ Gov Christie</b></div>
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Republican Governor Chris Christie's Chief of Staff, Richard
Bagger<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2009 - 2012</div>
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Currently – a Commissioner on the Port Authority of New York and New
Jersey</div>
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Served on the ALEC's Private Enterprise Board between 2001
and 2004</div>
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<b>Keith Gardner to NM Gov Susanna Martinez</b></div>
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Chief of Staff</div>
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“<i>Keith Gardner</i><span class="st"> is Governor Susana </span><i>Martinez's</i><span class="st"> chief of staff which makes him one of the most powerful men in New Mexico.”</span></div>
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ALEC member</div>
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<b>Art Pope to NC Gov McCrory</b></div>
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Gov.-elect Pat McCrory expanded his cabinet selections by
three on Thursday, and named a trio of key staffers that includes controversial
political financier Art Pope.</div>
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ALEC member</div>
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<b>John Thrasher to FL Gov Scott</b></div>
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"I want to<a href="http://www.news4jax.com/news/gov-scott-appoints-sen-john-thrasher-as-chairman-of-reelection-campaign/23977348" target="_blank"> thank Sen. Thrashe</a>r for agreeing to be
chairman of my re-election campaign," Scott said. "He has been a
trusted adviser throughout my first term, and will be a key supporter in my
campaign for a second term."</div>
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American Legislative Exchange Council Legislator of the Year
1998</div>
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Previous to his time as a legislative member – he was a
lobbyist for </div>
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ALEC member Southern Strategy Group</div>
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<b>Chris Atkins to IN Gov Pence</b></div>
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Pence made his first significant policy hire, bringing on
Chris Atkins as his policy director.</div>
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Atkins was director of tax and fiscal policy at the</div>
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American
Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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June
2001 – August 2004 (3 years 3 months)</div>
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<b>Dick Posthumus to MI Gov Rick Snyder</b></div>
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On 8 November 2010, Governor-elect Rick Snyder named
Posthumus to be his senior adviser and legislative lobbyist.<br />
2001 - Listed as an ALEC "Leader in the States"<br />
ALEC Board of Directors 1992 - 1996</div>
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<a href="http://s95.photobucket.com/user/AmericanAlgora/media/Michigan%20American%20Legislative%20Exchange%20Council/PosthumusALECNationalChair1993-94.jpg.html" target="_blank">ALEC National Chairman</a> Dick Posthumus<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1993- 1994</div>
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ALEC influence is sometimes hidden - like many things ALEC - behind a veil of secrecy. </div>
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Never publicly acknowledged - left for citizen researchers and journalists to expose.</div>
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2old2carehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05111045634666075672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407170361379095373.post-68443133098085527602014-09-22T19:47:00.004-05:002014-09-23T06:47:56.417-05:00ALEC HQ Misleads America with Google Presser<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]-->Such good news today with Google kicking ALEC to the curb<br />
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Was out having a drink - celebrating the good news of the day and my birthday and I come home to this!</div>
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The day dampened by an ALEC presser that - - - again - - - misleads people.</div>
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This presser is a demonstration why we HAVE TO HAVE people
monitoring what happens at ALEC meetings – cause without it – the lies they
tell will believed as truth.</div>
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<a href="http://www.alec.org/alec-statement-on-google-membership/" target="_blank">American Legislative Exchange Council Statement on Google Membership</a></div>
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Arlington, Virginia (September 22, 2014) — CEO Lisa B. Nelson issued the following statement:</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“It is unfortunate to
learn Google has ended its membership in the American Legislative Exchange
Council as a result of public pressure from left-leaning individuals and
organizations who intentionally confuse free market policy perspectives for
climate change denial.</div>
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REMINDER:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
freemarket can not exist while ALEC legislators intentionally and maliciously manipulate
the market using corporate written legislation.</div>
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The true free market exists when the market reacts to CONSUMERS
who make their will known to corporations – and that is exactly what happened in
this instance.<br />
ALEC doesn't defend the freemarket - ALEC manipulates the freemarket to enhance corporate profit. <br />
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It doesn't matter how many times ALEC yells - "Look - there's a squirrel over there." - and screams "left leaning groups", every action ALEC takes, all belongs to ALEC, ALEC owns it!<br />
In relation to that<br />
ALEC doesn't even have their side of their aisle behind them - they are extremists.<br />
Tea Partier blogs (bless their ignorant little souls) think ALEC is an offshoot of the Democratic party.<br />
The John Birch Society even thinks <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/18081-the-not-so-smart-alec" target="_blank">ALEC is not that Smart</a>.</div>
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“At our recent Annual Meeting in Dallas, we were pleased to host a roundtable
conversation between a variety of companies—including Google—regarding
renewable energy deployment and climate change. The conversations held in Dallas were intended to
build understanding and pioneer future policy approaches where organizations
could find common ground on issues of climate change, energy generation and
government mandates. And, I personally intend to continue this work."</div>
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<a href="http://host.madison.com/news/local/writers/jessica_vanegeren/madison-rep-chris-taylor-attends-third-alec-event-in-the/article_0d653f80-1da7-11e4-9edb-001a4bcf887a.html#ixzz3E5lXVbmw" target="_blank"><b>REBUTTAL</b></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>This time around, Taylor,
D-Madison, attended a subcommittee on how to “think and talk about climate
change” and an environmental discussion that featured a speaker representing
tech firms Google, eBay, Facebook and Yahoo.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Taylor said
the representative told the “coal is king” ALEC crowd that they needed to
create more policies favorable to renewable energy. The representative spoke of
the need for these companies to build large datacenters that use a lot of power
to operate.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Taylor said some attendees asked how the companies explain this choice to
their shareholders, while others asked why they should support subsidized
energy like wind and solar.</i></span></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Taylor said
the attendees were told coal and oil is also subsidized and shareholders are
told the use of renewable energy is a better long-term financial option that is
increasingly popular with customers</span>.</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.progressive.org/news/2014/07/187799/my-alec-diary-day-1#sthash.l2W8kAf2.dpuf" target="_blank"><b>REBUTTAL TWO from the same session, same author</b></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">At the end of the presentation, the energy giants thanked him, praised his
attendance, and peed in the corners.</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">This was coal country, and no Internet guy was going to tell them otherwise.</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">So they started their anti-renewable litany of objections:</span></i></span><br />
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Renewables aren't economical
(Internet guy responded that they are economical);</span></i></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Renewables exist because of
subsidies (Internet guy responded that all energy is subsidized);</span></i></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">And net metering is terrible
(Internet guy responded that though they don't use net metering, they have
encouraged renewables).</span></i></span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">So much for progress.</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">By the end of the day, any hope for a reasonable dialogue around renewable
energy had totally evaporated.</span></i></span></blockquote>
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Back to the ALEC statement </div>
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“In the case of energy generation, ALEC believes renewable
energy should expand based on consumer demand, not as a result of a government
mandate" </div>
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This sentence was written and released just over 24 hours after 400,000 CONSUMERS marched
through the streets of New York City
to wake up the leaders of the world </div>
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"<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/21/peoples-climate-march_n_5857902.html" target="_blank">just days before many of the world's leaders are expected to debate environmental action</a> at the United Nations climate
summit."</div>
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<b><a href="http://www.un.org/climatechange/summit/" target="_blank">the United Nations Climate Summit</a></b></div>
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not a corporate controlled ALEC meeting<br />
ALEC and its members are so removed from anything other than themselves - they can't even see the fossil fuel polluted forest for the ALEC decimated dying trees. </div>
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"Many misunderstand the American Legislative Exchange Council
and its legislator-led, free market priorities."</div>
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Legislator led free market priorities</div>
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BULLSHIT</div>
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The priorities are determined by Corporate entities.<br />
as demonstrated<br />
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/02/1096874/-ALEC-Legislation" target="_blank">HERE</a><br />
and <a href="http://www.commoncause.org/issues/more-democracy-reforms/alec/whistleblower-complaint/original-complaint/exhibit-4.html" target="_blank">HERE</a><br />
and <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/04/12441/documents-open-records-lawsuit-undermine-alecs-claim-alec" target="_blank">HERE</a><br />
and <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ly6s67l" target="_blank">HERE</a> pp 84-90</div>
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“ALEC believes in freedom of speech and opinion." </div>
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Bullshit! </div>
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the past <b><a href="http://becauseican-2old2care.blogspot.com/2014/05/alec-exercising-amendment-right.html" target="_blank">president of ALEC referred to protesters as COMMUNISTS</a>.</b></div>
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"However, ALEC and its members will continue to advance
limited government, free markets and federalism through dialogue, debate and
model policy formulation."</div>
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Which really means</div>
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However, ALEC and its CORPORATE members, will advance
CORPORATE process with legislation written by corporations “to advance limited
government, free markets and federalism” </div>
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The ALEC model of governance is a threat to the United States of America
and to the nations of the world – who have delegates attending ALEC meetings. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
ALEC knows it is a threat that is why they
continue to make decisions in secret - behind closed doors and mislead the public with statements as shown above.</div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 24.0pt;">#VoteNo2ALEC</span></b></div>
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ALEC is one nasty,
evil organization.</div>
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ALEC hates the
control of the Federal government.</div>
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ALEC hates control at
the local level.</div>
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ALEC members only want evil ALEC state legislative members to have control.</div>
</div>
2old2carehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05111045634666075672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407170361379095373.post-81114806303682511112014-09-11T08:05:00.003-05:002014-09-22T19:17:43.551-05:00ALEC Member Oped Misleads Montana <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Oh – my – <br />
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I get so, so tired of ALEC members and staff misleading the
public.</div>
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Think about it – IF ALEC was<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- - an honorable organization,<br />
the
members would not need to mislead others.</div>
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Today it is an OpEd written by the state chair in
Montana.</div>
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Sen. Roger Webb</div>
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ALEC public sector state chair for Montana</div>
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Billings</div>
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And it’s a doozy when it comes to misleading the public.</div>
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<a href="http://billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/mailbag/alec-is-a-thoughtful-democratic-organization/article_5c2323a7-e318-5ac9-b6ee-d32877c9bd32.html" target="_blank">ALEC is a thoughtful, democratic organization</a> </div>
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A recent letter suggested that new voting laws in Montana
come from the American Legislative Exchange Council, a group of which I am a
member. This assertion is incorrect, and I'd like to explain the actual focus
of the organization.</div>
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Nice lead-in for an OpEd that is full of incorrect assertions.</div>
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The American Legislative Exchange Council is a nonprofit
membership organization that brings together state legislators, policy analysts
and members of the business community to share ideas and create draft model
solutions to issues facing the states. ALEC members are guided by the
principles of limited government, free markets and federalism, and the issues
ALEC members work on and the model policies they create are all on the ALEC
website for anyone to see.</div>
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“the issues ALEC members work on and the model policies
they create are all on the ALEC website for anyone to see.”</div>
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No – they are not</div>
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And readers should remember this, from 2013 - from ALEC - - </div>
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<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/american-legislative-exchange-council-shakes-up-policy-rule-92758.html" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">If companies or associations already have initiated policy, it will be grandfathered in for the upcoming meeting.</span></i></a></div>
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Only ALEC legislative members can introduce draft model
policy, and after the discussions are had and the votes are taken, only the
23-member ALEC Board of Legislators can approve what model policy the
organization adopts. ALEC is guided by legislators, just as members are guided
by the principles of limited government, free markets and federalism.</div>
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“Only ALEC legislative members can introduce draft model
policy,”</div>
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Nice play on words<br />
- - -he doesn’t specifically say</div>
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“Only ALEC legislative members can WRITE draft model
policy,”</div>
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In fact corporations and right-wing stink tanks
still <b><a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/04/12441/documents-open-records-lawsuit-undermine-alecs-claim-alec" target="_blank">write the majority of the legislation</a> </b>for ALEC meetings and then give it a ALEC
member to “introduce”</div>
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As noted in a <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/american-legislative-exchange-council-shakes-up-policy-rule-92758.html" target="_blank"><b>2013 article</b> </a>on this issue</div>
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“This change is intended to preserve and protect the
unique and valuable nature of our public-private partnership,” Bowman wrote.
“Private-sector members are free to work with legislators to introduce, draft,
model policy.”</div>
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Nowhere on the website will you find any model policy or
research relating to voting rights.</div>
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Why?</div>
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Because ALEC intentionally does not include the policy or
research on their webpage.</div>
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ALEC intentionally misleads the public.</div>
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But you CAN find the model legislation</div>
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ALEC VOTER ID ACT</div>
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<b><a href="http://alecexposed.org/w/images/d/d9/7G16-VOTER_ID_ACT_Exposed.pdf" target="_blank">>>>HERE<<<</a></b></div>
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As a state legislator, it is my job to be informed as
well as to inform others. I'm a member of ALEC because I want to learn how to
better solve the problems in my state, and I want to share with others what's
working here at home. I encourage every Montanan to visit the ALEC website to
see for yourself the work ALEC members have thoughtfully drafted.</div>
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“I encourage every Montanan to visit the ALEC website”</div>
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Should be followed up with</div>
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BUT I DON’T “encourage every Montanan to ATTEND an ALEC meeting”
</div>
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because ALEC is NOT that DEMOCRATIC, </div>
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cause even it you were
to attend, </div>
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you would be barred from attending the meetings where corporate and
right-wing stink-tank legislation is introduced by willing legislators.<br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 24.0pt;">#VoteNo2ALEC</span></b></div>
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ALEC is one nasty,
evil organization.</div>
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ALEC hates the
control of the Federal government.</div>
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ALEC hates control at
the local level.</div>
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They only want evil,
fascist ALEC state legislative members to have control.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Its why they refer to STATES rights</div>
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It's why they are concerned with STATE sovereignty. </div>
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<br />2old2carehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05111045634666075672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407170361379095373.post-86362321912413380992014-09-07T15:38:00.003-05:002014-09-11T08:00:27.400-05:00Asset Forfeiture - Connecting the Dots to ALECFour things hit my attention today that reminded me of more
ALEC state nastiness that most people wouldn’t be aware of.
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Like most times when pulling this together, I will rely on the
actual words of ALEC, rather than summarizing them for the reader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do this because I want you to see the
actual ALEC’s nastiness and not me just reinterpreting on what could be ALEC
nastiness.</div>
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<br /></div>
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This entry really ended up morphing into two topics.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The EVIL of ALEC at
the state and federal level.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And subsequently </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The new EVIL of
ALEC at the local – municipal – level.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">First:</b></div>
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A recent article that was precipitated by the recent incidents in Ferguson Missouri
</div>
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<b><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/09/03/how-st-louis-county-missouri-profits-from-poverty/" target="_blank">How municipalities in St. Louis County, Mo.,profit from poverty</a></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: 11.0pt;">Which made me think of
this - - - </span></i></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">an old
petition:</b>
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End policing for profit in Minnesota</div>
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In Minnesota
every year, law enforcement agents seize millions of dollars from people during
traffic stops, simply by asserting that the money is connected to some illegal
drug activity. Frequently officers don’t have a warrant and never get a
conviction of criminal charges.</div>
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Innocent Minnesotans should not lose their property through
civil forfeiture.</div>
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Asset seizures often disproportionately impact those who can
afford it least—low-income African-American or Latino people whom the police
decide look suspicious and for whom the challenge of trying to get property
back is often prohibitively expensive.</div>
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ACT NOW: End policing for profit in Minnesota.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: 11.0pt;">Which made me think of
this - - - </span></i></b></div>
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<b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/bvxl6j5" target="_blank">2010 Report - Policing for Profit: The Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture</a></b></div>
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(my emphasis)<b> </b></div>
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the most comprehensive national study to examine the use and
abuse of civil asset forfeiture and the first study to grade the civil
forfeiture laws of all 50 states and the federal government. </div>
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<br /></div>
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However, in most places, owners bear the burden of
establishing their innocence. In other words, with civil forfeiture, property
owners are effectively guilty until proven innocent. </div>
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In 2008, for the first time in history, the U.S. Department
of Justice’s Assets Forfeiture Fund (AFF) held more than $1 billion in net
assets— </div>
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State data reveal that state and local law enforcement also
use forfeiture extensively: From 2001 to 2002, currency forfeitures alone in
just nine states totaled more than $70 million. </div>
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Imagine being pulled over and a law enforcement officer
decides to take your car, cash or other personal property. The officer claims
that he has probable cause to believe not necessarily that you are guilty of
any illegal conduct but that your property was used to facilitate illegal
activity. Perhaps the officer thinks you are carrying a larger-than-normal
amount of cash or that your travel pattern is “suspicious.” </div>
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Once your property is taken, the government
will—perhaps—send you a notice letting you know that the burden is on you to
try to get your property back. If you do not respond within the right time
frame and in the proper manner, law enforcement automatically gets to keep your
seized property.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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In <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1984</b>, Congress
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">amended</b> portions of the
Comprehensive Drug Abuse and Prevention Act of 1970 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">to create</b> the Assets Forfeiture Fund, into the most troubling
aspect of modern civil forfeiture laws is the profit incentive at their core. </div>
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After the 1984 amendments, federal agencies were able to
retain and spend forfeiture proceeds—subject only to very loose
restrictions—giving them a direct financial stake in generating forfeiture
funds. </div>
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1984 Ronald Regan was the President of the United States.</div>
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1984 US
Attorney General was William French Smith </div>
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<b>Throughout history<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/14/1006707/-Exposing-ALEC-ALEC-the-White-House" target="_blank"> ALEC has had inroads and connections to the Federal government.</a></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">From the 1984 ALEC
Annual Meeting program:</b></div>
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and (my emphasis)<br />
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Though <b>President Reagan's schedule</b> makes it impossible for
him to be with you, I want you to know that he personally salutes your
achievements and completely shares in the spirit of your celebration. </div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Faith Ryan Whittlesey,
Assistant to the President for Public Liaison</span></span></i></div>
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While I will be unable to attend the Eleventh Annual Meeting
personally, I want to again express to you and your fellow ALEC legislators my
appreciation for your continued interest in judicial reform issues. While
President Reagan has taken the initiative in proposing criminal justice reforms
at the Federal level, many ALEC legislators have been in the forefront of
enacting these same reforms at the state level. Your seminars and publications
on these issues have been an excellent reference for many. Best wishes for a
successful convention.</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">William French Smith,
Attorney General </span></b></span></i></div>
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At that same annual meeting you have this – </div>
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12:30-pm Lunch</div>
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Speaker: J. Kenneth Cribb, Jr, <b>Assistant Counselor to the President</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><b> </b> </span></div>
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"The Reagan Administration and Criminal justice"</div>
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</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">Which brought me to this </span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">– from two years
earlier</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1982</b> </div>
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ALEC State
Factor newsletter distributed to all their members- including Congressional
Alumni and Federal Government agency employees who were sympathetic to ALEC governance
preferences:</div>
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RAISING REVENUE WITHOUT RAISING TAXES (part D)</div>
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second part of a three-part study series
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OPTION ONE: FORFEITURE OF ASSETS</div>
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One very ingenious method of raising revenue is to enact a
"forfeiture of assets" amendment to state criminal justice statutes.
Simply stated, forfeiture is a proven method for law enforcement agents to
confiscate and sell at auction the goods and commodities traceable to a
criminal activity. The genius of a forfeiture amendment is that it does not
directly involve an alleged offender; law enforcement officers do not have to
prove that a person engaged in a criminal activity. Instead, forfeiture simply
requires authorities to prove "more likely than not" (not "beyond
a reasonable doubt") that a good or commodity was acquired because of a
criminal activity. The key to that distinction is writing the forfeiture
statute as part of civil law rather than criminal law. Authorities must still
demonstrate "probable cause," but the burden of proof (mentioned
above) is somewhat lighter. </div>
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Similiarly, [sic] Arizona
and Florida
officials were able to raise a combined $175 million after eighteen months'
enforcement of state pornography-related forfeiture laws.</div>
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The forfeiture [sic] statute allows authorities to
confiscate and sell boats, cars, equipment, bank accounts, houses, and any
other item </div>
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<br /></div>
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Collectively, a mass confiscation of all these items can be
worth billions of dollars. …for resale purposes; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most
of the items can be sold for widespread purposes. </div>
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How do we know if this would have moved to the state level
without ALEC?</div>
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We don’t.</div>
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But - being that Florida and Arizona were involved initially - it's a pretty good guess. Historically, these states have brought lots of nastiness to ALEC to pass around the country.</div>
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But with the hidden, secret influence ALEC has held over
state legislature for the past 40 years – it is fair to believe that the state
enactment of forfeiture laws can be directly tied to ALEC.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1993 </b></div>
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ALEC</div>
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COMPREHENSIVE ASSET FORFEITURE ACT</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Seizure – without
process on probable cause</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1998</b> </div>
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Chicago
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The Cato Institute's noted constitutional scholar, Roger Pilon,
will be discussing the Constitutional merits of ALEC's asset forfeiture
legislation.</div>
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Constitutional merits of ALEC's asset forfeiture
legislation - WTH? </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1999</b></div>
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Enactment of the </div>
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<b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/pg5s9k3" target="_blank">Comprehensive Asset Forfeiture Act</a></b> - part deux– which was “<u>Reforming</u>
ALEC’s existing model bill”
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Adopted by ALEC Criminal Justice Task Force at the States
and Nation Policy Summit
December 9, 1999.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Approved by the full
ALEC Board of Directors January, 2000.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2011</b> Annual
Meeting in NOLA – Public Safety and Elections TaskForce meeting</div>
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(my emphasis) </div>
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<b>ALEC has passed policy on civil asset forfeiture</b> and will
consider a motion </div>
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to repeal the current model and replace it with<b> an extended
version.</b> </div>
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“Asset Forfeiture Process and Private Property Protection
Act”</div>
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Mr. Lee McGrath, Institute for Justice</div>
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To replace “ALEC Comprehensive Asset Forfeiture Act” (2000)
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Importantly, this model does not change the authority of law
enforcement to seize property suspected of being associated with crime or limit
in any way prosecutors’ ability to charge and prosecute suspected criminals.
Moreover, it ensures that those individuals proven guilty of a crime do not
keep the fruits of their crime. In doing so, it strikes the right balance
between the individual property rights and public safety.
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Later in 2011</b></div>
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November<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- Public Safety and Elections Task Force Agenda and minutes</div>
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The Subcommittee will consider policies and hold an advisory
vote on civil asset forfeiture and transparency in criminal law. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Motion to repeal
existing “Comprehensive Asset Forfeiture Act”; failed the public sector;</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">Motion Failed.</span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Motion to table the “Asset Forfeiture and
Private Property Protection Act”; passed the public sector; passed the private
sector; Bill Tabled. </div>
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The same guy that introduced the repeal of the </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Comprehensive Asset
Forfeiture Act”;</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">which failed the
public sector;</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">Motion Failed.</span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></div>
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In 2011</div>
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Wrote this to ALEC members in the:</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2012 </b>Inside ALEC
| February </div>
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Civil forfeiture is one of the most serious assaults on property
rights in America
today. With civil forfeiture— unlike criminal forfeiture—law enforcement in
most states can take your property without even so much as charging you with a
crime, let alone convicting you of one. </div>
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ALEC adopted new model forfeiture policy in January.</div>
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ALEC’s Asset Forfeiture Process and Private Property
Protection</div>
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Act does the following three important things:</div>
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1. It ends civil forfeiture and replaces it with criminal
forfeiture;</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(under civil
forfeiture, owners need not be convicted of any crime </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to lose homes, cars,
businesses, cash or other property.) </div>
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2. It requires all forfeiture proceeds to be deposited in
the state</div>
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treasury and does not allow them to supplement the budgets</div>
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of local law enforcement; and</div>
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3. It shifts the burden to the state to prove that someone
whose</div>
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property has been seized and claims to be an innocent owner</div>
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did not have actual knowledge of the crime committed by</div>
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someone else with their property.</div>
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ALEC’s model policy allows law enforcement to hold seized
property for investigatory reasons</div>
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Proceeds to states from forfeiture now exceed $500 million
per year. In only eight states are the proceeds from forfeitures under state
law deposited in the state’s general treasury. In the other 42 states, local
law enforcement gets at least half of the proceeds including 26 states where
100 percent of the proceeds supplement the budgets of the law enforcement
agencies </div>
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The potential for abuse is rooted in this potential to make money.
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As documented in legal cases found in
the past and recent press (for reasons other than the topic of this entry) – potential of abuse
– for monetary gain -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>can extend to
state legislative members of the American Legislative Exchange.</div>
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<b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: 11.0pt;">Which made me think of
this - - - </span></i></b></b></div>
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<b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></i></b>ALEC's Hatred of Municipal Money </b></div>
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As noted above in the 2012 article, the ALEC adopted new model forfeiture policy included:</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“to be deposited
in the state treasury</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>does not allow
them to supplement the budgets</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of local law
enforcement”</div>
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Think about that!</div>
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ALEC hates local control.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
So in ALEC states where this new version of the forfeiture policy passes</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
they will basically be telling municipalities:</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Turn over what you seize to the ALEC state legislature. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="http://becauseican-2old2care.blogspot.com/2014/03/alec-we-hate-local-control.html" target="_blank">As ALEC Stanley Cox put it</a>:</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>It’s the money
to the cities<br />
</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>It’s the ordinances<br />
</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>It the fines that they
collect <b>that they get to keep</b> and<br />
</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>It’s all about that</i></div>
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<br /></div>
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Keeping money out of local treasuries, regardless of how it
is obtained – is a goal of ALEC.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: 11.0pt;">Which brings us to this -
- - </span></i></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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ALEC hates local control </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
they are actively seeking </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>and finding </b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
city and county employees who are willing help them </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
destroy local
government.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/06/conservative-group-alec-city-local-government" target="_blank">“The American City County Exchange”</a></b></div>
<b>
</b><br />
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<b><br /></b></div>
<b>
</b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/07/12555/alec-offshoot-takes-aim-local-government" target="_blank">“America's only non-partisan free market forum for village, town, city and county policymakers” </a></b></div>
<b>
</b><br />
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<b><br /></b></div>
<b>
</b><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><a href="http://respriv.org/alec-kick-acce-american-city-county-exchange-dallas-meeting/" target="_blank">“ACCE brings together local elected officials, leading industry experts and policy analysts”</a></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
ACCE</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Which is gearing up to <b><a href="http://www.heritage.org/events/2014/09/right-to-work" target="_blank">push right-to-work-for-less as an agenda item at City Council meetings</a>.</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
So - - </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
ALEC EVIL move throughout the system</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
How does that movement work?</div>
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From Federal law</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Possibly to state law – pushed by ALEC state legislative
members</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And now</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
To local laws – which will be pushed by municipal ALEC
members
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 24.0pt;">#VoteNo2ALEC</span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
ALEC is one nasty,
evil organization.</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
ALEC hates the
control of the Federal government.</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
ALEC hates control at
the local level.</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
They only want evil,
fascist ALEC state legislative members to have control.</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Its why they refer to STATES rights</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
It's why they are concerned with STATE sovereignty. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>GOP Lies </b></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ONE</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">McFadden: Franken
Was Deciding Vote for Obamacare, but Does Nothing Today to Fix It</b></div>
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<a href="https://www.mikemcfadden.com/mcfadden-franken-was-deciding-vote-for-obamacare-but-does-nothing-today-to-fix-it/">https://www.mikemcfadden.com/mcfadden-franken-was-deciding-vote-for-obamacare-but-does-nothing-today-to-fix-it/</a></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">TWO</b></div>
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<b>Scott Brown Lied About Shaheen's Deciding Vote For
Obamacare</b></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_rfuH1befk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_rfuH1befk</a></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THREE</b></div>
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<b>Did Mary Landrieu cast the ‘deciding’ vote for Obamacare?</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2013/11/22/did-mary-landrieu-cast-the-deciding-vote-for-obamacare/">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2013/11/22/did-mary-landrieu-cast-the-deciding-vote-for-obamacare/</a></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FOUR</b></div>
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<b>"Jeff Merkley was the deciding vote on
Obamacare,"</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/05/was_jeff_merkley_the_deciding.html">http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/05/was_jeff_merkley_the_deciding.html</a></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FIVE</b></div>
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<b>Kay Hagan</b></div>
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<b>Hagan cast the deciding vote for Obamacare.</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.ncgop.org/kay-hagans-obamacare-failure-keeps-failing/">http://www.ncgop.org/kay-hagans-obamacare-failure-keeps-failing/</a></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SIX</b></div>
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<b>Sen. Pryor was the deciding vote for #ObamaCare,</b></div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/482198863386644480">https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/482198863386644480</a></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SEVEN</b></div>
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<b>"Udall cast the deciding vote for Obamacare</b></div>
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<a href="http://gazette.com/editorial-sen.-udall-says-of-obamacare-vote-i-would-do-it-again/article/1517188#GXVG3TlWyb9E7I17.99">http://gazette.com/editorial-sen.-udall-says-of-obamacare-vote-i-would-do-it-again/article/1517188#GXVG3TlWyb9E7I17.99</a></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">EIGHT</b></div>
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<b>television ads about McCaskill’s “deciding vote” for the
“jobs-killing <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/search/results?q=Obama">Obama</a>care.”</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/print-edition/2012/02/17/mccaskills-vote-on-obamacare-may-be.html?page=all">http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/print-edition/2012/02/17/mccaskills-vote-on-obamacare-may-be.html?page=all</a></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NINE</b></div>
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<b>Debbie Stabenow, the deciding vote to create Obamacare</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/07/distortions_on_health-care_cla.html">http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/07/distortions_on_health-care_cla.html</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>cause they can't win on the issues </b></span></span></div>
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<b><a href="http://ballotpedia.org/State_legislative_elections,_2014#Missouri" target="_blank">Two hundred plus</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></b>(200+) ALEC incumbents are not running for re-election in 2014</div>
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This may sound like good news </div>
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Just because they resigned this year – does not mean they
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Some are running for higher office </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And HAVE TO BE
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Some are running for Supreme Court, District Court or
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And HAVE TO BE
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AND WORSE</div>
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Some are running for city and county offices</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>To help the
extremist, pro-corporate, we want right to work implemented at the local level
- American Legislative Exchange Council expand their newest evil entity – <b><a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/07/12555/alec-offshoot-takes-aim-local-government" target="_blank">the ACCE</a></b></div>
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And those people HAVE TO BE DEFEATED</div>
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Here’s the list of ALECers who resigned for you to check and take action on<br />
Be sure they don't get elected to a different position in your state!! </div>
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Check you state ballots!</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Educate your
friends, family and neighbors</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NOT TO VOTE FOR THESE PEOPLE</div>
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<td class="xl23" style="width: 132pt;" width="176"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Montana
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Richard Laird</td>
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<td class="xl22">Verdell Jackson</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Mary Sue McClurkin</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Greg Wren</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Scott Reichner</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Chad Fincher</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Mark Blasdel</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Jesse O’Hara</td>
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<td class="xl23" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Alaska
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<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Wendy Warburton</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">John Coghill</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Cary Smith</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Fred Dyson</td>
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<td class="xl22">Krayton Kerns</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Lseil McGuire</td>
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<td class="xl22">David Howard</td>
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<td class="xl22">Pat Connell</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Mia Costello</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Peggy Wilson</td>
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<td class="xl23"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Nebraska
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<td class="xl22">Pete Pirsch</td>
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<td class="xl23" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Arizona
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<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Bill Avery</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Chester Crandell</td>
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<td class="xl22">John Wightman</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Al Melvin</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Mark Christensen</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">John Mccomish</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">John Harms</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Rick Murphy</td>
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<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Michele Reagan</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl23"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Nevada
</span></td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Barbara Cegavske</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Andy Tobin</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Doris Goodale</td>
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<td class="xl22">Crescent Hardy</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Brenda Barton</td>
<td><br /></td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Steve Smith</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl23"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">New Hampshire
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Tom Forese</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl25">Ballotpedia claims a total of 93</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Jeff Dial</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl25">in house resigned but gave no list.</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Debbie Lesko</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">John Kavnaugh</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl23"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">New Mexico
</span></td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Justin Olson</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">William Gray</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Justin Pierce</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Anna Crook</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
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<td class="xl23" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Arkansas
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<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl23"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">New York
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Johnny Key</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Greg Ball</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
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<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Terry Rice</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl23"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">North Carolina
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Ann Clemmer</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Thom Tillis</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Allen Kerr</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Ruth Samuelson</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Davy Carter</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Robert Dale</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl23"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">North Dakota
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Andrea Lea</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Spencer Berry</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Denny Altes</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Jonathan Barnett</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Alon Wieland</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Les Carnine</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Brenda Heller</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">John Burris</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Duncan Baird</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl23"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Ohio
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Karen Hopper</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Tim Schaffer</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Debbie Hobbs</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Mary Slinkard</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Matt Huffman</td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Terry Blair</td>
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<td class="xl23" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">California
</span></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">William Batchelder</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Dan Logue</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Jay Hottinger</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Gerald Stebelton</td>
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<td class="xl23" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Colorado
</span></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Ross McGregor</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Greg Brophy</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">John Adams</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Steve King</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Rex Damschroder</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Scott Renfroe</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Lynn Wachtmann</td>
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<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Mark Waller</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl23"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Oklahoma
</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Amy Stephens</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Rob Johnson</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Bob Gardner</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Cliff Branan</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Cheri Gerou</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Cliff Aldridge</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Spencer Swain</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Carole Murray</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Marty Quinn</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Jerry Sonnenberg</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Steve Martin</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Skye McNiel</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl23" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Connecticut
</span></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Mike Jackson</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Penny Bacchiochi</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Colby Schwartz</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">DebraLee Hovey</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Gus Blackwell</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">TW Shannon</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl23" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Delaware
</span></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Mike Reynolds</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">None</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl23"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Oregon
</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl23" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Florida
</span></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Larry George</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Jimmy Patronis</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Daniel Davis</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Tim Freeman</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Bryan Nelson</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Wally Hicks</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Will Weatherford</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Bruce Hanna</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Dennis Richardson</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl23" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Georgia
</span></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Kim Thatcher</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Ronnie Chance</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Jason Conger</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Edward Lindsey</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Josh Clark</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl23"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Pennsylvania
</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Delvis Dutton</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Bob Robbins</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Ellis Black</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Dick Stevenson</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl23" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Hawaii
</span></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Sam Smith</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">None</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Jerry Stern</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Paul Clymer</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl23" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Idaho
</span></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Eric Anderson</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl23"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Rhode
Island
</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Darrell Bolz</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">None</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">JoAn Wood</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl23"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">South Carolina
</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl23" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Illinois
</span></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Phillip Owens</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Kirk Dillard</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Ted Vick</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Liston Barfield</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><span lang="IT" style="mso-ansi-language: IT;">Renee Kosel</span></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><span lang="IT" style="mso-ansi-language: IT;">Darlene Senger</span></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><span lang="IT" style="mso-ansi-language: IT;">Dennis Reboletti</span></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl23"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">South Dakota
</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Jill Tracy</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">David Novstrup</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Tom Cross</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Santel Krebs</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Michael Bost</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Ryan Maher</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Larry Rhoden</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl23" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Indiana
</span><span style="font-variant: small-caps;"></span></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Sue Landske</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Manford Steele</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Thomas Wyss</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Hal Wick</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Stace Nelson</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl23" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Iowa
</span><span style="font-variant: small-caps;"></span></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Charles Hoffman</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Nancy Boettger</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Betty Olson</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Sandra Greiner</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Mark Lofgren</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl23"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Tennessee
</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Steven Olson</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Kent Willima</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Pat Murphy</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Vince Dean</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Joe Carr</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl23" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Kansas
</span><span style="font-variant: small-caps;"></span></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Joshua Evans</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Kelly Meigs</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Barrett Rich</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Lance Kinzer</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Richard Carlson</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl23"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Texas
</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Ken Paxton</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl23" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Kentucky
</span></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Katie Stine</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Jim Pitts</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Julie Denton</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Brandon Creighton</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Harvey Hildebran</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Ben Waide</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Rob Orr</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Robert Damron</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Dan Branch</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Bill Callegari</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl23" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Maine
</span></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">John Davis</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Roger Sherman</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl23"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Utah
</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl23" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Matyland</span></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Stuart Reid</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Allan Kittleman</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Nancy Jacobs</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Ryan Wilcos</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Barry Glassman</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Roger Barrus</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Leroy Myers</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Jennifer Seelig</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Michael Hough</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Rebecca Lockhart</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Nancy Stockdale</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Gail Bates</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl23"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Vermont
</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Ron George</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Duncan Kilmartin</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Steve Schuh</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">H Wayne Norman</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl23"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Washington
</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Adelaide Eckhardt</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Janea Holmquist</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Jennie Haddaway-Riccio</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">William Frank</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Judith Warnick</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Charles Ross</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl23" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Massachusetts
</span></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">George Peterson, Jr.</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl23"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">West Virginia
</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Troy Andes</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl23" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Michigan
</span></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Bruce Caswell</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl24"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Randy Richardville</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl23"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Wisconsin
</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">John Moolenaar</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><span lang="IT" style="mso-ansi-language: IT;">Neal Kedzie</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><br /></td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><span lang="IT" style="mso-ansi-language: IT;">Dale Schultz</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Bill Rogers</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><span lang="IT" style="mso-ansi-language: IT;">Mike Ellis</span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Eileen Kowall</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Tom McMillin</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Chad Weininger</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Gail Haines</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Mike Endsley</td>
</tr>
<tr height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">
<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Kenneth Kurtz</td>
<td><br /></td>
<td class="xl22">Stephen Nass</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Matt Lori</td>
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<td class="xl22">Erik Seversin</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Mike Shirkey</td>
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<td class="xl22">Howard Marklein</td>
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<td class="xl22">Pat Strachota</td>
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<td class="xl23" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Minnesota
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<td class="xl22">Daniel Lemahieu</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Mike Benson</td>
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<td class="xl22">John Klenke</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Kurt Zellers</td>
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<td class="xl22">Bill Kramer</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Michael Beard</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Pam Myhra</td>
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<td class="xl23"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Wyoming
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<td class="xl22">Leslie Nutting</td>
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<td class="xl23" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Missouri
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Brian Nieves</td>
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<td class="xl22">Kathy Davison</td>
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<td class="xl22">Thomas Lubnau, II</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Mike Thomsom</td>
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<td class="xl22">Carl Loucks</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Stanley Cox</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Doug Funderbunk</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Chuck Gatschenberger</td>
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<td class="xl22" height="21" style="height: 15.75pt;">Timothy Jones</td>
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2old2carehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05111045634666075672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407170361379095373.post-87894185438584461282014-08-02T20:04:00.002-05:002014-08-03T07:48:57.305-05:00#KeepmyTV Advocates Are Getting Jerked Around<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>My public service announcement</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>because a lot of people are getting jerked around on Twitter </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>they don't know it</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>and they need to know it</i></span></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nastiness in the cable TV industry and it's got a real piece of nasty associated with it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Real nasty! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<u><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Background:</span></b></u><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyone who has antenna (free) TV is seeing ads from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) telling them to contact Congress to <b><a href="http://www.keepmytv.org/" target="_blank">KeepMyTV</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here's why</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The cable companies are up to some real nastiness in DC that NAB is warning may end up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">in free broadcast antenna TV being eliminated</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">AND</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">your local broadcast channels being moved from basic service to premium service on the cable lineups</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have every reason to believe NAB </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- if nothing else it doesn't hurt to sent a message to Congress</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- just in case</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">cause the public is always the last to know.</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">WELL</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here's where the right-wing, pro-corporate cable funded slimeballs step in</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you tweet</span><br />
<b><a href="http://keepmytv.org/"><span style="font-family: inherit;">keepmytv.org</span></a></b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">or </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">#Keepmytv</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">You immediately gets spammed by the American Television Viewers Association</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">A twitter activist will send this:</span>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
Everyone..tell congress to stand up for free local television. go to www.keepmytv. Here is a sample - I urge you... <a href="http://t.co/rDCcEUYS5H">http://t.co/rDCcEUYS5H</a><br />
— Nana G's (@NanaGs_) <a href="https://twitter.com/NanaGs_/statuses/495615316010233856">August 2, 2014</a></blockquote>
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and they get spammed with this.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/NanaGs_">@NanaGs_</a> don't worry. It's a scare tactic by broadcasters who want to charge $$ for same free channels you get w/ antennas<br />
— ATVA (@ATVAlliance) <a href="https://twitter.com/ATVAlliance/statuses/495677977707827202">August 2, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Misleading Nana - becausetheycan</span></b></span><br />
<br />
AND<br />
its happening<br />
<b><a href="https://twitter.com/ATVAlliance/status/493000008581783552" target="_blank">over and</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://twitter.com/sheheach/status/495269776470847488" target="_blank">over and</a></b><br />
<b><a href="https://twitter.com/ATVAlliance/status/494813886487355392" target="_blank">over again</a></b><br />
(Just proof that this is a major undertaking by ATVA)<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">American Television Viewers Association (ATVA)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">is a division of<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">American Television Alliance</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> a lobby group
representing cable and satellite providers</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> formed by Time Warner Cable in 201<span style="color: #333333;">0 </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.fiercecable.com/story/source-comcast-twc-merger-could-kill-american-television-alliance/2014-02-13" target="_blank">Time Warner Cable has been one of ATVA's biggest supporters</a>, and has led the funding for its lobbying
efforts.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;">In 2010 the Heartland
Institute listed ATA as</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;">Victories: The American Television Alliance, a The [sic] 31-member industry
coalition,was formed in July</span> </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The board of American Television Alliance as noted on their 2012 990 included </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> American Cable Association</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Charter</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> DirecTV</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> DishTV</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> USTelecom</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Insight</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> MediaComm</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Time Warner Cable (2)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> past
Turner Communications employee</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In relation to this issue the American Television Alliance <a href="http://www.americantelevisionalliance.org/tag/retransmission-consent/" target="_blank">defends themselves in a blog entry</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">with</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"a sampling of what conservatives are saying"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Who are those conservatives</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Free State Foundation - ALEC member</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Mercatus Center - funded by Koch</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Citizens Against Government Waste - ALEC member<span style="color: #333333;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;"> L. Gordon Crovitz - who writes for Murdoch media - ALEC member</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;"> National Taxpayers Association - ALEC member</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;"> Taxpayer Protection Alliance - Founded by ALEC scholar - Stephen Moore</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;"> R Street Institute - Cofounded by ex ALEC exec director Alan Smith</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;"> Heritage Foundation - ALEC member</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;">Pro-corporate, free market conservative organizations - all with indirect ties through the American Legislative Exchange Council to </span><span style="color: #333333;">the cable and satellite providers that fund </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">American Television Alliance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;">Soooo - - - </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;">The American Television Viewers Association</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;">A group that lobbies for </span><span style="color: #333333;">cable and satellite providers</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;">is telling <u><b>every</b></u> person like NanaG out there that emails Congress or tweets to friends and family</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;">to #keepmyTV</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;">"Don't worry - Be Happy"</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;">The NAB is lying and </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;">the cable companies will look out for your best interests.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bullshit! </span></b></span></span></div>
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2old2carehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05111045634666075672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407170361379095373.post-34977074303941280812014-07-31T09:48:00.000-05:002014-07-31T09:48:06.093-05:00Republicans - Its all About Them<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
A little under 100 days until the midterm elections and what do we know?</div>
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The
Republicans have made it clear – it’s all about them - they will not
compromise on anything – it’s their way or the highway - to hell with
anyone else.</div>
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The
Republicans have made it clear – it’s all about them - they support the
wealthy and tax cuts for the wealthy and to hell with everyone else.</div>
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The Republicans have made it clear – it’s all about them - they will continue to block anything that is not on “their agenda” - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to hell with everyone else.</div>
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The
Republicans have made it clear – it’s all about them - they will repeal
everything that is not on “their agenda” - to hell with anyone else.</div>
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No
compromise – it’s all about them – no other voice(s) in this country
exist or need to be heard– except the Republicans - to hell with anyone
else.</div>
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I found this quote on a web page about a year ago and it made me think:</div>
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“Wake up America – Republicans are uncaring, unpatriotic and marching down the path of destroying the United States.”</div>
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<br /></div>
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In my opinion they have a point<br />
– but may be missing the main point of current Republican (and Tea Party) behavior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m just thinking <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that you need to look at the Republican behavior from a new and different “Republican paradigm”.</div>
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So what does the “Republican paradigm” look like?</div>
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Republicans are caring people – they care about Republicans, specifically rich Republicans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would even question if they care for the “tired, poor, huddled masses” Republicans.</div>
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Republicans are patriotic – in fact in their minds they probably believe they are the only true patriots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is their country and only Republicans have the right to claim “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”</div>
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Republicans are not trying to destroy the United States. They probably believe that this was written for them and only for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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“When
in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to
dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and
to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station
to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them,…”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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– they are trying to destroy everyone and everything that is not Republican.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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It’s very possible that in their warped sense of reality, they believe that the “Republican States of America” shall prevail.</div>
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Then the Republicans can re-write the Pledge of Allegiance.</div>
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I pledge allegiance to the swag<br />of the Republican States of America and <br />
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">to our republic for which it stands, one nation, </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">under our God, with liberty and </span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">justice for us.</span></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">They can change the country’s motto to read</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">In the Republicans God we trust.</span></div>
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The Republican motto may have become:</div>
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Love the Republican Party, love thyself – </div>
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hate everyone else and hate everything else </div>
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because no one else matters and nothing else matters </div>
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except the Republican Party of America; God bless us one and all.</div>
2old2carehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05111045634666075672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407170361379095373.post-51508640839278995682014-07-31T09:43:00.002-05:002014-07-31T09:43:41.240-05:00Blaming Boomers for Social Security Crisis is a Crock!<br />
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Every
time I hear a news report that Social Security is in grave danger and
we have to make drastic changes to retirement benefits – I want to
scream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every time they talk
about drastic changes it is always about retirement benefits needing
change – I want to scream. Yesterday CNBC suggested Boomers were going
to bankrupt Social Security and I WANT TO SCREAM!</div>
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<br /></div>
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To a topic people don’t like to talk about.</div>
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BOOMERS ARE GOING TO DIE!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
Got it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you understand that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
Does
it make sense to you?<br />
Pay attention here – this is really important
when talking about “aged benefits” and Social Security solvency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
One webpage suggests Boomers are dying at a rate of 1 boomer dead every 35 seconds and they have a death counter for Boomers.<br />
Because Boomers are a big part of the population - they will account for a large percentage of deaths over the coming years<br />
- more than any age group<br />
DEAD = not getting Social Security Anymore. </div>
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Life expectancy:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
Defined as<br />
Average number of years an individual could be expected to live based on <u>current patterns of mortality</u>. (Public Health Agency of Canada)</div>
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Life expectancy in the US</div>
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78.4<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(World Bank)</div>
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77.9<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(CDC)</div>
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According
to the Social Security Administration (2006) the life expectancy of a
60 year old male was 20.7 more years, a 60 year old female 23.78 years.</div>
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Based on those numbers we can pretty much agree that the US and the world reporting agencies agree that people are going to continue to die.</div>
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Wikipedia reports that there were approximately 76 million boomers born in the US between the years of 1946 and 1964.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>3.4 million boomers were born in 1946<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(US<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dept HEW -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>registered and unregistered births recorded)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>Boomers born in 1946 will reach full retirement age in 2011</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>40
– 60% of boomers born in 1946 don’t have enough money to retire in 2011
(depending on which article you believe) (Still working? = still paying
into Social Security)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>Boomers born in 1946 will start dying (on average) in 2026 </div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span>In 2007 – 23,000 died; In 2006 - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>26,000 died; In 2005 – 25,000 died<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(CDC)</div>
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I
could go on and on, Boomer birth year by Boomer birth year – but what’s
the point - you do get the point don’t you – we’re dying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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By 2043 over 97% of the Silent Generation will be dead</div>
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By 2043 over HALF of the Boomers will be dead (based on average current patterns of mortality).</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">By 2043 about 90 million people will be in the US workforce, paying into Social Security.</b></div>
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<br />
I'd write more<br />
but why?<br />
<br /></div>
and besides - I'm a Boomer and I’m dead tired.2old2carehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05111045634666075672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407170361379095373.post-64320961223545053212014-07-24T18:22:00.001-05:002014-09-22T19:18:20.332-05:00ALEC - Cronyism, Corruption, Perversion<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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But - no - that's not what they are writing about. </div>
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Ever heard the old adage</div>
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Poking at a Hornets nest</div>
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Ever been told </div>
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<b>Don’t do that?</b></div>
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Well - - - -</div>
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As the Right-wing reports it</div>
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<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/24/report-rampant-tax-favoritism-and-lack-of-transparency-in-state-governments/#ixzz38PvfhX4T" target="_blank">Report: Rampant Tax Favoritism And Lack Of Transparency In State Governments</a></div>
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A new report released by the American Legislative Exchange
Council looks at widespread state government favoritism through the tax code,
in which specific individuals and businesses are treated unequally and given
tax carve-outs.</div>
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, which according to ALEC, distorts the market and should be
replaced with a simpler and more competitive tax code. </div>
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ALEC’s report arguing, “Specialized carve-outs in the tax
code are distortionary and ineffective at best, and examples of government
cronyism at worst. These carve-outs run contrary to the principles of sound tax
policy and the basic fairness of a level playing field for all businesses.”</div>
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Oh my - - - - </div>
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Snips from ALEC’s report</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>The Unseen Costs of Tax Cronyism: Favoritism and Foregone
Growth</i></span></div>
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And</div>
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Of course – it has a piece of legislation at the end of it –
only one piece of legislation, although I’m sure there are probably a dozen,
based on past ALEC history.<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(It's on the ALEC webpage - you can find it there - I won't link to it) </span></div>
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Seems fitting that ALEC's new groundbreaking report would have the word "cronyism" in it the week before the annual meeting of state legislators and corporate lobbyists.</div>
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Cronyism</div>
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ALEC writing about Cronyism</div>
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Oh, my - - - - </div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>A</b></span>LEC</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>L</b></span>egislators </div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>E</b></span>pitomize </div>
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<span style="color: red;"> <b>C</b></span>ronyism </div>
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But - no - that's not what they are writing about.</div>
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“policymakers can embrace cronyism by providing certain businesses and
industries with special targeted tax breaks and tax carve-outs.”</div>
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And by God – ALEC legislators do that every day!</div>
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But - no - that's not what they are writing about. </div>
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<br /></div>
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They go on to say that the tax cronyism (that most ALEC
legislators have been practicing for decades) leads to </div>
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"precipitating tax rate increases"</div>
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and</div>
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of course</div>
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"subverts market outcomes"</div>
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Oh, no - the 1% and the market are at risk - - Oh No! </div>
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But the biggest complaint ALEC makes in this report is about
the potential for public corruption.</div>
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Now let me get this straight – </div>
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the organization that puts legislators behind closed doors
to meet secretly </div>
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with corporate lobbyists – </div>
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meetings which by the way are totally funded by the corporations that the</div>
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lobbyists work for – </div>
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is now worried about public corruption.</div>
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Really?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>REALLY?</div>
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Get real – there’s more to this story that we won’t know
about for awhile yet.
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Cronyism—the perversion of sound economic policy to create a
system that benefits one firm or industry at the expense of all
others—is a serious public policy problem.
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ALEC wrote that – sounds pretty much what they do every day</div>
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But - no - that's not what they are writing about.</div>
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"the perversion of sound economic policy"</div>
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is done everyday, in every way - by "perverted" ALEC legislators</div>
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"serious public policy problem"</div>
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should be on every piece of ALEC literature</div>
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ALEC the serious public policy problem. </div>
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ALEC should own that phrase everyday, in every way</div>
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</div>
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<br />
But later in the report ALEC re-writes their mumble jumble </div>
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- they like to do that to confuse people </div>
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- confusing people makes spreading mistruths easier. </div>
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You see, ALEC reports suck you in at the beginning of the report with happy crap and then hope you don't bother to read to the end - where the real evil is. And most idiots - don't read the whole thing - so the happy crap on the first couple pages becomes the news stories.</div>
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Later in the report</div>
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Cronyism is the substitution of political influence for free
markets. It comes about when government has a lot of power over private- sector
decisions and when the government officials in power have great discretion over
how to use it. </div>
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Oh, my – the real issue is now evident</div>
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</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">has a lot of power
over private- sector decisions</b> and when the government officials in power have
great discretion over how to use it </div>
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Oh, boy – ALEC corporations must be pissed about
something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we won’t know what that
something is until ALEC releases their next batch of malicious legislation. </div>
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Evidently a couple of their corporate members didn’t get the
tax breaks and subsidies they wanted</div>
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SO</div>
ALEC to the rescue – doing what they are paid millions of
dollars each year to do for their corporate members<br />
protect the profits of corporate members and<br />
this time they do it with a new report on how unfair<br />
the
current system is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
new legislation to
follow.
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<br /></div>
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It gets even more bizarre in way when you consider that </div>
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ALEC is claiming that the current systems is unfair when
ALEC has been controlling the state legislatures in many states for many years.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<b>BUT</b></div>
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The story doesn’t end there.</div>
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“In an ideal world, each and every state would publish an
expenditure report every year. This is not the case at all, and it was pretty
difficult trying to put this together,” ALEC’s William Freeland told reporters
on a call Thursday.</div>
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Pretty difficult to put together – eh?</div>
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Nope!</div>
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<b>ENTER<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>GoodJobsFirst.org</b></div>
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(which by the way has published their own report on <b><a href="http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/snakeoiltothestates" target="_blank">ALEC “Selling Snake Oil to the States</a>”</b></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/subsidy-tracker" target="_blank">SUBSIDY TRACKER</a> </b></div>
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A growing number of state and local governments are
disclosing which companies they are giving tax breaks and other subsidies in
the name of job creation and economic development. Yet much of that information
is being disseminated through hard-to-find reports and web pages. SUBSIDY
TRACKER brings together the information from those far-flung sources--along
with unpublished data obtained through open records requests--to create the
first national search engine for economic development subsidies.</div>
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SUBSIDY
TRACKER brings together the information from those far-flung sources</div>
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The left does - what the right-wing finds difficult to do.</div>
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<br /></div>
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SOOOOOO</div>
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Let's take a look at tax breaks and other subsidies, </div>
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that the left is capable of documenting in a searchable database found at Subsidy Tracker.</div>
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Past and Present ALEC Private sector Board members </div>
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ALTRIA</div>
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State Subsidy Total: $43,083,398</div>
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<br /></div>
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AT&T</div>
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State Subsidy Total: $58,628,721 </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
DIAGEO – a British owned company</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
State Subsidy Total: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>$40,012,492</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
EXXON</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
State Subsidy Total: $340,271,846</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
GLAXOSMITHKLINE</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
State Subsidy Total: $25,792,840 </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
INTUIT </div>
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State Subsidy Total: $1,618,107 </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
JOHNSON &
JOHNSON<br />
State Subsidy Total:
$34,669,906</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
KOCH INDUSTRIES</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
State Subsidy Total:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>$89,172,767</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
KRAFT FOODS</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
State Subsidy Total: $15,205,849 </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
PEABODY
ENERGY</div>
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State Subsidy Total: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>$278,095,289 </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
PFIZER</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
State Subsidy Total: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>$201,959,919 </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
STATE FARM INSURANCE</div>
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State Subsidy Total: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>$24,050</div>
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<br /></div>
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UNITED PARCEL SERVICE</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
State Subsidy Total: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>$133,306,952</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
WALMART </div>
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State Subsidy Total: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>$149,942,595 </div>
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<br /></div>
<b>
</b><b>
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<b>TOTAL<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>$1,411,784,731.00
</b></div>
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</tbody></table>
<b>
</b><br />
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<b>ONE and half BILLION DOLLARS</b></div>
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<br /></div>
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And that’s just a small piece of the pie</div>
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It is reported that WalMart gets</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
$7.8 BILLION in tax breaks and subsidies</div>
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Needy Walmart – only makes $16 BILLION IN PROFIT</div>
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<br /></div>
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Looking at the numbers above - there is a caution</div>
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This list is only 14, yes <u>only </u>14 - of the over 300+ corporate
members of ALEC.</div>
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AND this doesn’t account for items from the Federal
government</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
ONE and half BILLION DOLLARS tax breaks and other subsidies</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
that the left is capable of documenting </div>
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in a searchable database found at Subsidy Tracker.</div>
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<br /></div>
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For fourteen ALEC corporations</div>
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Fourteen.</div>
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</div>
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It was really handy for these corporations to have ALEC
legislators in their pocket when they needed them</div>
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<br /></div>
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Take my word – or don’t – that absolutely nothing good will
come out of this report.</div>
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It takes a mental contortionist to try and figure out what
is in the sick, twisted brain of American Legislative Exchange Council members
and staff.</div>
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It takes a mental contortionist to try and figure out what the outcome of this newest ALEC report will be. </div>
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<br /></div>
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The timing of the release of the report leads me to believe they are going to be
pushing this at the ALEC Dallas meeting next week</div>
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where your state legislator will be meeting privately </div>
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– behind
closed doors – with Corporate lobbyists</div>
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that want tax breaks and other subsidies</div>
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and then</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
your ALEC legislator will bring some nice sounding bill back to your state about
tax cronyism </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
– that helps no one except ALEC corporate members.</div>
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2old2carehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05111045634666075672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407170361379095373.post-40410154962799712692014-06-30T08:50:00.000-05:002014-06-30T09:18:34.771-05:00ALEC Transparency - Ain't what it used to be<div style="text-align: center;">
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ain't what it used to be,</div>
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ain't what it used to be,</div>
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ALEC trans-par-ency</div>
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ain't what it used to be,</div>
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just a few years ago. </div>
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ALEC has learned to mislead the press very well when it comes to the issue of transparency.<br />
Unfortunately for the reader - the press writes what ALEC says - doesn't check to see if it is true - so the press feeds the public lies.<br />
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<b>ALEC Distorts Transparency</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/state-s-top-alec-officials-say-group-is-becoming-more/article_99c279d9-aa63-570e-8edb-f90340898c58.html#ixzz365HosdYi" target="_blank">because of member concerns</a> about transparency, Meierling
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“The fundamental issue is people want to know,” Meierling
said. “Critics of the organization and supporters of the organization say let
sun shine on everything.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/15/alec-model-legislation_n_2885570.html" target="_blank">"We really believe in transparency," </a>ALEC
spokesman Bill Meierling told The Huffington Post. "We believe that more
eyes on our model policies will create better policies.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After “taking it on the chin” for a few years, <a href="http://knoxblogs.com/humphreyhill/2013/12/08/tn-legislators-attending-alec-nothing-sinister-despite-claims-contrary/" target="_blank">ALEC is making an effort</a> to be more transparent, said state Senate Republican Caucus
Chairman Bill Ketron of Murfreesboro.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Bull crap</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">ALEC only makes transparent - what ALEC wants the public to see.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">ALEC intentionally distorts its policy and mission - by only publicizing what they want others to believe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Everything of importance for the public to know is still secret at ALEC</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Just a couple of examples of how ALEC is less transparent now - then it was before.</span></b></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEind8m7eWrKprvlxJOk0dTrfFf6_QJ-RXJpzhuYlN-bh09SQMTICPUzkdZv6oT1QDcCKLS9WsrjutoPFCOxYdpM2qfrT14A87WfOKv-y6XVdrSz5GTheVyXSpWFHhxdndZz79odX3u-J8TR/s1600/then+now.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEind8m7eWrKprvlxJOk0dTrfFf6_QJ-RXJpzhuYlN-bh09SQMTICPUzkdZv6oT1QDcCKLS9WsrjutoPFCOxYdpM2qfrT14A87WfOKv-y6XVdrSz5GTheVyXSpWFHhxdndZz79odX3u-J8TR/s1600/then+now.jpg" height="332" width="540" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The NEW supposedly more transparent agenda</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> doesn't show which corporation is sponsoring the bill</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> doesn't show which corporate representatives are doing all those presentations<b><br /></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">HIDING information</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And then there is this agenda.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The International Relations Taskforce</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Corporations and lowly STATE legislators meeting with foreign nationals outside the purview of our state department. <b><a href="http://becauseican-2old2care.blogspot.com/2013/03/an-alec-sham-international-task-force.html" target="_blank">AND writing legislation that affects the US.</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The NEW supposedly more transparent agenda</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> doesn't show who is the Private Sector (Corporate) Chair of the Taskforce</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> doesn't show which corporation/foreign national is doing the presentations</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> doesn't show who is sponsoring the bill </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> -evidently the corporate lawyers haven't hooked up with a legislator yet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> to intro the bill</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> and that is important - as demonstrated here:</span><br />
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DECEITFUL and HIDING information of who actually wrote the bill and who is the corporation (profit or not for profit) promoting the bill.<br />
AND it was <b><a href="http://becauseican-2old2care.blogspot.com/2013/07/alecs-first-agenda-item-hide.html" target="_blank">planned this way - to execute just like this</a> </b>- by ALEC <br />
LYING!<br />
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And the you have this!!!<br />
The American Legislative Exchange Council use to be extremely open back in the '90s - that also has changed. <br />
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<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/30/1265996/-ALEC-Less-Transparent-Now-Than-in-1995" target="_blank"><b>ALEC Less Transparent Now Than It Was In 1995</b></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If Meierling wants to talk about the past, explain this. How is it that
ALEC is owning up to its secretive "past," when the group published full task force membership lists and the text of all model legislation until 1995?</span></div>
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<b>Important Caveat for the Future</b></div>
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The 2011 agendas shown above were on the Common Cause webpage - Common Cause has recently dropped these documents from their webpage.</div>
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This is a shame.</div>
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Now that historical information that proves - beyond a reasonable doubt - how ALEC REALLY operates, behind closed doors, is no longer available to the general public - who needs to know this information and see this information.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ALEC and the US House</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ALEC members in
the House that retired this year</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">There are 11 - and if we don't watch ourselves they will be replaced with 11 other ALECers.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We need to start now </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">to support the Dems with money or volunteer time</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">to educate our friends and neighbors about ALEC</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><b><a href="http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-united-states-of-alec-a-follow-up/" target="_blank">HERE</a><br /><a href="http://watch.montanapbs.org/video/2365254181/" target="_blank">HERE</a><br /><a href="http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed" target="_blank">HERE</a></b><br /> </span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NOTHING WILL CHANGE</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">if we replace one ultraconservative pro-corporate extremists of the American Legislative Exchange Council party, with another</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">#VoteNo2ALEC</span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">RETIRED </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Spencer Bachus
(AL)</b></div>
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Runoff election July 15th. </div>
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State Rep. Paul DeMarco and policy analyst Gary Palmer</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>DeMarco is
probably ALEC, hasta be to attend an ALEC? Taskforce meeting</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was
a presenter on an ALEC panel </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Exploring the Development of ALEC Principles
on Workers Compensation Reform </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Civil
Justice Task Force</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>States
& Nation Policy Summit | Grand Hyatt | Washington, D.C.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>November
28, 2012</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Could be replaced with nother ALECer</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John Campbell (CA)</b></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mimi Walters GOP
– ALEC lover – will face Dem Drew Leavens in November</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Walters probably
ALEC – definitely an ALEC lover</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Could be replaced with ALEC lover</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rodney Alexander,
R-La.</b></div>
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Replaced in November 2013 by Vance McAllister – who resigned
in 2014 amid multiple reports of scandal</div>
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Primary October 5, 2014 for November election</div>
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No known ALECers on the primary ballot as of this point –
2 ALECers declined to run for the position – but then you have the Duck Dynasty
nephew running</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mike Rogers</b>
(MI) </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Primary for this
position on August 5</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both GOP candidates
are ALECers Tom McMillin and Mike Bishop </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Could be replaced with another ALECer</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dave Camp</b> (MI)</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Primary for this
position on August 5, 3 GOP candidate, 1 ALECer</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Camp endorsed
ALECer John Moolenar to take his place, running against Dem Jeff Holmes</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will be a hard
seat to keep away from ALEC without lots of boots to ground and money</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Could be replaced with another ALECer</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Howard Coble</b>
(NC)</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Runoff – election
July 15 - ALECer Phil Berger is vying for this seat will run against Mark Walker
for GOP endorsement<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Berger is
endorsed by ALECers Coble,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gingrich<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ALEC loving Virginia Foxx</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Could be replaced with another ALECer</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jim Gerlach</b>
(PA)</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ryan Costello, GOP
– not known ALEC - will face Dem Manan Trivedi </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will be a hard
seat to keep away from ALEC without lots of boots to ground and money</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Doc Hastings</b>
(WA)</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Primary is
August 5 for this seat, 12 candidates</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Known ALECers
running Janea Holmquist </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Could be replaced with another ALECer</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">RUNNING FOR SENATE</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cory Gardner</b>
(CO) to run for senate</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Won primary –
will face Mark Udall in November</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jack Kingston</b>
(GA) to run for senate</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>July 22<sup>nd</sup>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Runoff election
in July between Kingston and Perdue</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Phil Gingrey</b>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did not advance
in primary for senate</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">GONE</b>,
probably to his high paying lobbyist job for an ALEC corporate member</div>
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The entire house is up for re-election this year.</div>
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I heard a buttwipe on the radio this morning say that 98% of the seats are safe.</div>
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I refuse to accept that</div>
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<b><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Alumni_in_Congress" target="_blank">81 members of the House are listed as ALEC</a></b></div>
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and as many as possible must not be re-elected. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">#VoteNo2ALEC</span></span></b> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>ALECer Eric Cantor who lost
his primary bid</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="http://bgr.com/2014/06/11/how-to-disable-comcast-xfinity-wi-fi-hotspot/" target="_blank">Turn Off Your Comcast HotSpot</a></b></span></div>
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For more reasons than I can tell you - I hate Comcast.</div>
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They are - of course - a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council ( ALEC ).</div>
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Unfortunately I have to use them </div>
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unless I am willing to accept 1.5 Mbps that CenturlyLink offers - my only other option.</div>
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So - Comcast reigns supreme</div>
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Comcast screws their customers every day in every way - becausetheycan </div>
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And the FCC does nothing</div>
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This whole issue, the Comcast HotSpot, infuriates me.</div>
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I bought my own modem – so Comcast can’t make obscene
profits off me to “rent” their modem.</div>
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I bought my own modem – to ensure Comcast would not use
my house to increase their market share, with the Comcast HotSpot.</div>
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Imagine this:</div>
<ul>
<li>A pedophile sitting in a car right outside your house watching porn - using a wifi connection you are providing.</li>
<li>A prostitute sitting in a car right outside your house connecting with clients - using a wifi connection you are providing. </li>
<li>A drug dealer sitting in a car right outside your house connecting with clients - using a wifi connection you are providing. </li>
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<b>While the IP address of the public service will be
different from that of the hosting customer, the physical address of both will
be the same. </b></div>
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Cops, lotsa cops - with guns -at your address</div>
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for something you did not do</div>
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GUILTY! until proven innocent</div>
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- that's how the justice system works in the US, now</div>
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GO TO JAIL faster than you can imagine</div>
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for something you did not do. </div>
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That’s it for my original thought.</div>
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The rest of this is snips from across the web – source
links at the bottom.</div>
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Comcast is quietly turning on public hotspots in its
customers’ routers, essentially turning private homes into public hotspots.</div>
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Comcast has been swapping out customers' old routers with
new ones capable of doubling as public hotspots.</div>
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noticed a new Wi-Fi network popping up on his home
computer.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Suddenly there's
this service that says XFINITY Wi-Fi.</div>
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coming from the Comcast router inside his hall closet.</div>
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Comcast's new X-Finity Home WiFi Hotspots will add a
second separate and distinct signal to your home modem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One is yours<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The second will be for your guests</div>
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"The lack of consumer choice is disrespectful,"
wrote Kelly Morgan, vice president and general manager for Frontier, in a blog
post. "Rather than allowing customers to opt into opening their homes to
becoming hotspots, they are unilaterally making homes into hotspots and forcing
customers to figure out how to opt out of this sharing if they don't want to be
a commercial hub for Comcast."</div>
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Comcast basically said</div>
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"You know, we aren't even going to ask you if you
want this, you'll just take the feature. Saves us from having to explain it to
you."</div>
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“This is actually an opt-out, not an opt-in. So they'll
actually send this command to your router to enable this public Wi-Fi hotspot
in your house and hope you don't object to it," he said.</div>
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"From a security standpoint, it just adds another
access point for a hacker or bad guy to get into your system," CPR Tools
CEO John Benkert told WINK News.</div>
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Comcast gets a fairly cheap way to extend its network—by
having its customers pay for the equipment!</div>
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Comcast representative told me the company expects to
have 8 million customers with the public access feature enabled by year end. </div>
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in 19 of the largest U.S. cities.</div>
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Another concern should be that in an attempt to grow
Comcast’s customer base, the public service will allow two free one-hour
sessions per MAC address per month to non-subscribers. </div>
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you can buy or "rent' a wireless router from
Comcast. I suggest you buy one from a store instead of renting one.</div>
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If comcast wants to use my router to provide service to
others, then they can bloody-well pay me for that service I am providing.</div>
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If they are going to use the modem that they're renting
to me to provide service to others, then they ought to reduce my rent.</div>
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LEGAL ISSUES FOR YOU</div>
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While the IP address of the public service will be
different from that of the hosting customer, the physical address of both will
be the same.</div>
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Comcast is essentially using your private residence as a
corporate resource.</div>
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As many as five people at a time can use your personal
hotspot;</div>
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There have been reports that you must re opt-out every
time your router receives a 'refresh' signal.</div>
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the odds of serious problems emerging are very, very
high.</div>
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And the FCC does nothing</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="http://bgr.com/2014/06/11/how-to-disable-comcast-xfinity-wi-fi-hotspot/" target="_blank">Turn Off your Comcast HotSpot</a></b></span></div>
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2old2carehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05111045634666075672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407170361379095373.post-68517067199237705352014-06-10T09:34:00.002-05:002014-09-22T19:18:50.183-05:00Expose ALEC? We'll Send the Attack Dogs<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Shaking my head in disbelief this morning</div>
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Right-wing rag bitching about the costs of an open
records request – but that’s not the focus of this entry.</div>
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The focus here is about ALEC transparency – or lack
thereof.</div>
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ALEC has been screaming how transparent they have become -
which is an outright lie when you compare current meeting documents to older meeting
documents or review their webpage for specific ALEC bills</div>
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YET – when a left leaning legislator makes ALEC meetings
transparent by reporting on the meetings to left-leaning publications</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the right goes
nuts</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ALEC goes nuts</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and the intimidation starts</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The right-wing and
ALEC don’t want transparency of the mechanisms<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>of ALEC and this is proof. </b></div>
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The right-wing never ceases to amaze me with their
stupidity – their incredulous belief<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>of
equivalency in what they do and why they do it.</div>
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This morning – trending – <a href="http://mediatrackers.org/wisconsin/2014/06/10/one-wis-democrat-two-records-requests-price" target="_blank">is an article that was released by the right-wing</a> funded Media Trackers about open records requests that were
made against WI legislator Chris Taylor – back to that later.</div>
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But really </div>
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– it is a right-wing, same old, same old.</div>
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Different person, different year </div>
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– intimidation of anyone who dares expose their precious
ALEC</div>
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Most people aren’t aware that back in the day, way back,
Republicans did the same thing to a Wisconsin University professor when he
dared – yes dared – to start talking about ALEC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Republicans filed an open record request
against William Cronin because he had the audacity to start exposing ALEC – way
before <a href="http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed" target="_blank">ALECExposed</a> existed. </div>
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<a href="http://scholarcitizen.williamcronon.net/2011/03/24/open-records-attack-on-academic-freedom/" target="_blank">A Tactic I Hope Republicans Will Rethink: Using the Open Records Law to Intimidate Critics</a></div>
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But the right-wing didn't - - - </div>
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Different person, different year </div>
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– intimidation of anyone who dares expose their precious
ALEC</div>
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The right-wingers are probably saying</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Payback is a bitch – you libtards filed open record
requests against ALEC members – why can’t we intimidate people who are exposing
ALEC?</span></i></div>
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What these right-wingers are too muddle-headed to
understand is that there is no there, there.</div>
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Open records requests against someone reporting to the
press, about a meeting they attended as part of their legislative duties – what
ALEC desperately tries keeps secret – has no feet.</div>
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When CMD requested open requests on <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/06/12140/cmd-files-open-records-suit-against-alec-board-member-sen-leah-vukmir" target="_blank">ALECer Vukmir in WI</a>
and <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/09/12259/texas-attorney-general-rebuffs-alecs-effort-declare-itself-immune-open-records-la" target="_blank">ALECer Rep. Stephanie Klick</a> of TX, the open records requests were to reveal the secret
mechanisms of ALEC, the extent that ALEC was going to keep their documents
secret to the public.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These were open records
requests to make public – what should have been public –the manipulation of our
state legislatures by ALEC.
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Some might say – well that’s what the right-wingers are
doing now – trying to expose records that are secret to the public – BUT that's a spurious argument.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Open records requests to expose secret ALEC documents that
intentionally impact the governing of our country are not comparable to open records requests for records
of a legislator exposing ALEC meetings in a magazine article - about content they learned at an ALEC meeting they attended, as part of their legislative duties</div>
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Chris Taylor has never hid her relationship with <a href="http://www.progressive.org/" target="_blank">The Progressive</a> – she published her reports on the content of ALEC meetings there, twice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s no there, there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes there might be emails between Taylor and
various left leaning organizations – but so what, she’s a liberal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really, so what? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What difference does it make that Ms. Taylor
is reporting about the content of ALEC meetings and working with left-leaning organizations to
do so? It's historically evident that the right-wing does not report about the content of ALEC meetings - that is how ALEC has stayed under the radar of the public for 40 years.</div>
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What is the right-wing media trying to do – silence Taylor
for ALEC?</div>
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What is the right-wing media trying to do – intimidate Taylor
for ALEC?</div>
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What is the right-wing media trying to do – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">and </b>who asked/paid them to do it?</div>
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Did Chris Taylor break any laws? Hell no.</div>
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Chris Taylor attended a supposedly legislative focused meeting, in her duties as bonafide legislator, </div>
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reported on the meeting to inform the public of what she experienced, </div>
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as a legislator at a supposedly legislative focused meeting.</div>
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And the right-wing attack dogs cut loose</div>
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What Chris Taylor did was break the secrecy laws that
surround ALEC meetings and ALEC is pissed.</div>
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What Chris Taylor did – is exactly what the right-wing
press doesn’t have the balls to do – report on ALEC.</div>
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Yes, ALEC is pissed – no one, absolutely no one, else
cares about the content of Taylor’s reporting – except ALEC!</div>
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The intentional secrecy of ALEC is destroyed when an
attendee reports on the “closed door meetings” of ALEC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> The content of those meetings <u>should be</u> public domain and Taylor has made bits and pieces of what she saw/heard public and ALEC is pissed.</span></div>
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How dare someone report what is happening at an ALEC
meeting! How dare they! ALEC meetings are designed to be secret so the public does not know the evil ALEC is cooking up. </div>
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This is Exactly why ALEC will not allow citizen journalists
or even left leaning journalists into their meetings.</div>
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ALEC knows what is happening at their meetings is WRONG.</div>
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ALEC legislators know what they are doing at ALEC meetings
is WRONG.</div>
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ALEC and ALEC legislators know what they are saying at
ALEC meetings is WRONG.</div>
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ALEC and ALEC members do not want what they do at
meetings reported – cause they know it is WRONG.</div>
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ALEC is evidently pissed enough to secretly send
right-wing funded media to intimidate and deter.</div>
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So what is the right-wing so-called press looking for?</div>
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Nothing but sensationalism</div>
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Nothing but intimidation </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to shut-up
Chris Taylor </div>
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The right-wing setting their crosshairs on someone like
Chris Taylor – for reporting about ALEC – which by the way – the right-wing media,
does not do.</div>
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Moral of the story – don’t piss off the American Legislative
Exchange Council or the right-wing will send their attack dogs after you.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Corporate people who live
insulated from the masses should be careful when they throw stones at
ALEC--the stones can bounce back and bite them in the ass. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There is a certain level of hypocrisy that the public will not accept - even from non-profit corporations. Non-profit corporations can't spend their time throwing stones at ALEC to increase their funding, but then turn around and partner with ALEC when it suits their fancy. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Non-profit corporations can't spend their time throwing stones at ALEC to increase their funding, at the same time that they are supporting various ALEC policies.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">During my time as a blogger, diarist and tweeter – I have
found that most people want to ignore posts like these, not share them with
others.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">NOT because the entry is untrue – but because people don’t
want to believe it is true.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Entries like these are a conundrum for people because it makes people think about </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">what they want to know</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">vs</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">what they don't want to know.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Entries like this produce cognitive dissonance for readers - because what they have been trained to believe, want to believe, is put into question - - kinda when you learn for the first time that Santa Claus is not real. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Potential conflicts of interests are exposed and there is definitely a disturbing juxtaposition between listen to what we say, not what we do </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">People will want to say no, please don't tell me this is true.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">But it is true and it is sourced. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">#VoteNo2ALEC</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Today is one of those days where my brain is screaming.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">If WE THE PEOPLE don’t eliminate ALEC while we are standing in
the voting booth – we may as well just accept the fact that our “representative
government” is gone.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">#VoteNo2ALEC</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why would I say that?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Because, as long as ALEC controls legislation that is being
introduced at the state and federal level – nothing can be done to stop them – </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">unless </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">WE THE PEOPLE remove ALEC members from office so that ALEC
has no control over legislation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let’s look at a couple of examples that I hope will wake the
people up – and show them that it is the responsibility of WE THE PEOPLE to
stop ALEC – not other entities.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The most stunning:</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The ACLU</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The ACLU attended the May 2014 meeting of ALEC and <b><a href="http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/content/hal-wick-alec-ideas-are-not-partisan" target="_blank">is currently working in partnership</a></b> with ALEC on prison overcrowding issues and privacy
issues.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why? because the ACLU
recognizes the power that ALEC has to distribute legislation across the United States.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The ACLU could have chosen a different method to work
through these issues – but they chose to partner with ALEC to have access to
ALEC legislators.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">CUNA - Credit Union
National Association</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Remember years ago when we hated the big banks – many that
belong to ALEC – and we “moved our money”?
Well shortly after that CUNA joined ALEC.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">CUNA doesn’t just attend ALEC meetings to be an exhibitor –
CUNA sits on an ALEC Commerce, Insurance, & Economic Development Task
Force.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">CUNA could have chosen a different method to work through
legislative issues affecting its industry – but <b><a href="http://becauseican-2old2care.blogspot.com/2012/12/cuna-must-dumpalec.html" target="_blank">they chose to partner with ALEC</a>
</b>to have access to ALEC legislators.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">NAACP - FLORIDA</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The NAACP of North Carolina has been a major leader in the publicizing of the injustices of the ALEC-run state of North Carolina. NC Moral Mondays have become as much a part of the cry against injustice, as were the demonstrations in Wisconsin when ALECer Scott Walker started his destructive rule of that state.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">But, when you look at the NAACP of Florida, you see a different story, <b><a href="http://www.thebradentontimes.com/news/2014/06/08/opinion/redistricting_trial_provides_inside_glimpse_of_our_crooked_legislature/#.U5Rwlf6y6HE.twitter" target="_blank">a more disturbing story out of Florida</a>,</b> in regards to the re-districting issue in Florida - <b><a href="http://www.prwatch.org/files/redistricting.jpg" target="_blank">which by the way IS an ALEC issue</a>.</b> The article notes that the Florida NAACP has chosen not to fight for equality for voters, but has sided with the Florida legislature on re-districting and basically said , hey people should just be happy they get to vote - so what if the district is gerrymandered.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">IEA of Illinois – Illinois
Education Association (National
Education Association)</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">IFT of Illinois - - Illinois Federation of
Teachers (American Federation of Teachers)</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">TWICE – yes twice, <b><a href="http://reclaimreform.com/2014/02/24/iea-alec-dillard-rauner-quinn-etc/" target="_blank">the IEA of Illinois has endorsed</a>,</b> supplied
funding and boots on the ground to an ALEC member, Kirk Dillard</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-dillard-gains-backing-from-states-two-major-teachers-unions-20140302,0,123835.story" target="_blank">To top it off – it didn’t stop there</a>. </b> The IFT – a division of the AFT, which
supposedly is anti-ALEC organization – not only threw their support behind
ALECer Kirk Dillard but gave him a six figure donation in support. IFT supposedly represents the teachers in the
City of Chicago
– who have been decimated by ALEC-esque city legislation, killing their
schools.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">IEA and IFT could have chosen a different method to work
through upcoming elections and legislative issues affecting its industry – but
they chose to financially support an ALEC legislator.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">These examples are no different – <u>absolutely no
different</u>, than <b><a href="http://respriv.org/legislation-sale-alec/" target="_blank">Google joining ALEC</a> </b>specifically to get legislation passed for
their new cars. Google saw ALEC as a way
for their organization/corporation to benefit from ALEC legislation and the end
result is they join/supported ALEC – for their own selfish profit-driven reasons.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">What these examples demonstrate is - - taking the easy way out, being lazy.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rather than using the systems that these organizations have in place to attack the issues - they do what corporate America does - they deflect/defect to ALEC --- because its easier. NOT because it is correct, but it is easier.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">By partnering/providing support with/to ALEC the examples above give credence to the ALEC model – credence ALEC DOES NOT deserve
to have.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now on to the UFT and AFT</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">United Federation of Teachers </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The national office of AFT supposedly rails against ALEC in
public, against ALEC policies. But –
there’s a glitch.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Randi Weingarten is the mouthpiece for the AFT against ALEC
educational policies.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">One of the ALEC educational policies is the expansion of
charter schools – charter schools that steal taxpayer money from our public
schools to give to for-profit corporations <b><a href="http://billmoyers.com/2014/05/05/charter-schools-gone-wild-study-finds-widespread-fraud-mismanagement-and-waste/" target="_blank">to run substandard schools that hurt the taxpayer</a></b> and the students.</span></span></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.nj.com/education/2014/01/head_of_national_teachers_union_joins_protest_of_newark_school_makeover.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">From a 2014 article </span></span></a></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">That day, Weingarten’s message was about the need to restore
community involvement and oppose “corporate-influenced school reform."</span></span></div>
</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">“corporate-influenced school reform."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s time to realize that both the UFT and the AFT are
corporations.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s time to realize that both the UFT and the AFT influence
school reform.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">But, the AFT – <b><a href="http://www.aft.org/about/resolution_detail.cfm?articleid=34" target="_blank">isn’t totally against charter schools</a></b> – </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">or “corporate influenced charter school” – AFT is a
corporation</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">AFT is against – charters that aren’t unionized.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.edwize.org/uft-green-dot-sign-pioneering-contract-for-nyc-charter-school" target="_blank">In fact, in 2009</a> </b>– Weingarten, then UFT President, partnered
with a “corporate influenced charter school” in NY, the Green Dot “Public”
Schools to establish a charter school in NY City</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://upchs.org/about/history/" target="_blank">Green Dot “Public” Schools</a></b> is a nonprofit – that
intentionally shifts taxpayer dollars from our public schools to charter
schools. But evidently that’s okay – as
long as the charter school is unionized and you advertise your charter school
as “progressive”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wiengarten still sits on the <b><a href="http://upchs.org/about/boards/" target="_blank">Board of Trustees</a> </b>of that
school.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The UFT/ Green Dot “Public” Schools school in 2012/2013
school year had</span></span></div>
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<b><a href="http://data.nysed.gov/reportcard.php?instid=800000061083&year=2013&createreport=1&enrollment=1" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">372 students total</span></span></a></b></div>
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<b><a href="http://data.nysed.gov/reportcard.php?instid=800000061083&year=2013&createreport=1&teacherqual=1" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">31 teachers</span></span></a></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Oh – if only our public high schools could have such
statistics</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">And the absolutely stunning and most questionable statistic
about this school is that they claim a 100% graduation rate – 100%.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nothing in life is 100%, unless whatever you are measuring
has absolutely no uncontrollable variables.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The UFT/ Green Dot “Public” Schools school is<b> <a href="http://data.nysed.gov/enrollment.php?year=2013&instid=800000061083" target="_blank">100% students of color</a>,</b> in The Bronx, NY - - which has way too many variables that can not be
controlled.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The UFT Foundation took over the charter school from Green
Dot in June 2013 and renamed it University
Prep Charter
High School.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maybe<b> </b><a href="http://www.ed.gov/labor-management-collaboration/conference/green-dot-public-schools" target="_blank"><b>because the results weren’t as good</b> </a>as they had hoped
for in a union run charter school </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">According to the UPCHS webpage, Wiengarten still sits on the Board of Trustees of the
school.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">With AFT and UFT </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">As long as a charter school is unionized and some owned by
UFT – charters are okay – to the unions.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">In fact,<b> <a href="http://www.uft.org/issues/charter-schools" target="_blank">UFT doesn’t sound much different</a></b> than any other for-profit
corporations stealing tax dollars for its charter school</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">That is why the UFT has opposed the funding freeze on
charter schools in the state budget and has fought to lift it. And why we have
called for eliminating the two-year lag in charter schools’ funding formula and
proposed that charter schools whose educators participate in the Teachers’
Retirement System should be allowed to take that cost off their books and have
the local school district assume it.</span></span></div>
</blockquote>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">One of the ALEC educational policies is the expansion of
charter schools - but evidently, if the charter school is unionized – that makes them a
better charter school.</span></span><br />
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<![endif]-->Yet, all the while, it is a top ALEC objective to
destroy all unions, starting with those in public service. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">WE THE PEOPLE are the only entities that are not corporations. We must fight this battle for ourselves and keep the organizations that supposedly represent us and seek our funding - representative of us.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">WE THE PEOPLE</span></span> can no longer sit back and assume that organizations that purport to serve the people, actually serve the people - these organizations must be monitored and when we see them take actions that do not correspond to the mission they state, we must protest their actions.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">WE THE PEOPLE can not expect others to do our work for us in
regards to the elimination of ALEC legislative/policy power in the state and
federal government.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">WE THE PEOPLE</span></span></span></span> are not corporations focused on self-centered
sustainability, at any cost.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">WE THE PEOPLE must be responsible to take our government
back from the ALECers, by our words and by our actions.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">#VoteNo2ALEC</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The American Legislative Exchange Council </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">exists only to provide legislative services to organizations (profit
and non-profit); </span></span>through intentional manipulation of state legislation by ALEC
legislators, for the sole purpose to benefit ALEC corporate members.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Because of this, these same corporations can not be trusted
to act on behalf of WE THE PEOPLE – because the organization’s long-term
survival – using ALEC legislators to pass ALEC legislation that favors the
organization –is more important to their survival in the long-term, than WE THE
PEOPLE. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Non-profits can be just as selfish, self centered and inwardly
focused – as the for-profit corporations that tweeters and bloggers vilify for
their involvement with ALEC.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Unless WE THE PEOPLE, wake up and realize that the only way
that ALEC can be truly be stopped is for WE THE PEOPLE to vote ALEC members out
of office – I don’t see much success in stopping ALEC legislation from further corrupting our nation.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>You can’t sit at your keyboard from now until November and
hope & pray things will change.</b> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">YOU
have to take action between now and November to <b><a href="http://becauseican-2old2care.blogspot.com/2012/12/alec-primer-reminder.html" target="_blank">educate your friends and family about ALEC</a></b> and to encourage all to vote ALEC members out of office. If you don’t</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> – </span></span>nothing will change – it will
only get worse, with more and more organizations who say they speak for the people, turning to ALEC for the easy way of getting what they want, for just a fist full of a few dollars more.</span></span><br />
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">ALEC is one of the most powerful political forces
influencing our nation,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">& therefore the most dangerous </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">few have heard of it.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is by design</span></span></div>
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</span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you don’t take action – no one else will.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">#VoteNo2ALEC</span></b></span></span></div>
2old2carehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05111045634666075672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407170361379095373.post-83299928546660477562014-06-04T07:02:00.001-05:002014-06-04T07:02:26.101-05:00What Best for ALEC is Worst for Working MomsFor the past couple of weeks the ALEC Rich State Poor States Report (RSPS) have been finding its away around the web. If it isn't an article on it, its an ALEC pundit or staff member pushing it down the throats the people of America, WITHOUT sharing the philosophy and funding behind the report.<br />
<br />
The problem with that report is it serves ALECs interests - it doesn't serve the interests of the people of the United States.<br />
<br />
The report has been debunked multiple times<br />
<b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/ou4779y" target="_blank">HERE</a></b><br />
and<br />
<b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/onug4wy" target="_blank">HERE</a></b><br />
and<br />
<b><a href="http://www.progressivestates.org/news/blog/the-policies-make-state-poorer-according-alec" target="_blank">HERE</a></b><br />
People have been <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/04/14-0" target="_blank">warned not to believe the skewed report</a> HERE but the question is who is really taking the time to really understand the evil of that report. The ALEC RSPS report is just another manipulation by the Republicans - but in this case extremist Republicans.<br />
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If you look at but don't look at it critically - you can be taken in by a report that is intentionally produced to mislead. Don't fool yourself - this ALEC report and the results in the report are skewed to serve the interests of the corporate members of the American Legislative Exchange Council - its a statistical sham!<br />
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You can't just look at the lists that ALEC has produced and not question the outcomes.<br />
Take for example this second look at their list.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">1 - Utah</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">41 - Rhode Island</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">33% ALEC members</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">11% ALEC members</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">2 - South Dakota</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">42 - Oregon</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">100% ALEC members</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">19% ALEC members</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">3 - Indiana</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">43 - Montana</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">33% ALEC members</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">24% ALEC members</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">4 - North Dakota</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">44 - Connecticut</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">31% ALEC members</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">14% ALEC members</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">5 – Idaho</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">45 - New Jersey</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">20% ALEC members</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">2% ALEC members</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">6 - North Carolina</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">46 - Minnesota</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">32% ALEC members</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">11% ALEC members</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">7 - Arizona</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">47 - California</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">49% ALEC members</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">9% ALEC members</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">8 - Nevada</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">48 - Illinois</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">22% ALEC members</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">18% ALEC members</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">9 - Georgia</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">49 - Vermont</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">38% ALEC members</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">4% ALEC members</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">10 - Wyoming</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">50 - New York</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">36% ALEC members</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">1% ALEC members</span></div>
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Take a look at that - the purpose of that chart is to hopefully push you to ask the question<br />
Does being an "ALEC State", a state that is controlled by ALEC mean that ALEC will rate your state better than a state that has fewer members.<br />
<br />
Does ALEC threaten states with less members and tell them their state will be lower unless they get more members, unless they pass more ALEC pro-corporate legislation?<br />
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That's not tin-foil hat - it is looking at the data from another direction.<br />
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And that's where the rest of this entry will go<br />
To look at the data from another direction - another point of view.<br />
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<br />
In the bogus and biased ALEC Rich State Poor States they list the states by two conclusion<br />
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<b>The Economic Performance Ranking</b> is a backward-looking
measure based on a state’s performance</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">This past week <a href="http://wallethub.com/edu/best-states-for-working-moms/3565/" target="_blank">"The Best States for Working Moms"</a> was issued and I couldn't help wondering - if these are the best states for Working Moms based on the variable they used - how does this compare to the ALEC ranking.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The first column is the top ten states for Working Moms from last weeks report</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The second column is the same states Economic Ranking </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">from the ALEC report </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The third column is the Economic Performance Ranking from the ALEC report </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">You might be wondering why did she put that awful pin on the chart?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The states that are hilited in pink ranked in the BOTTOM ten states on the ALEC rankings.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">What's the yellow for?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">That's a state that ranked in the top ten of the ALEC rankings.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Arizona appears to be the ONLY winner in this comparison. </span><br />
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so lets look at the worst of the "Best States for Working Moms"<br />
The bottom ten on the ranking.<br />
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Notice anything in the bottom ten states on the ranking of "Best States for Working Moms"<br />
Lotsa yellow - the states with yellow hiliting were among the TOP TEN states in the ALEC rankings.<br />
And they are in the ranking for the worst states for working Moms. <br />
Only one state ranked in the bottom ten of Best States for Working Moms and only on one aspect of the ALEC rating - Michigan.<br />
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Two charts<br />
Absolutely nothing comparable, except for Arizona.<br />
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What does it mean - who knows?<br />
It just seemed strange to me that the results would be so totally different. <br />
Seems strange to me that the needs of working moms is at absolute total odds with the ALEC rankings.<br />
But it begs the question - who is ALEC producing their report for - as it seems as there are variables from the working Mom study, that do not correspond to ALEC rankings at all. <br />
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For anybody interested in the whole list:<br />
Remember<br />
<span style="background-color: magenta;">PINK</span> are the worst states in ALEC ranking - bottom 10 of 50<br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;">YELLOW</span> are the best states in the ALEC ranking - top ten of 50<br />
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So - - -<br />
What's best for ALEC is worst for working Moms.<br />
Whats best for working Moms is considered worst by ALEC.<br />
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<br />2old2carehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05111045634666075672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407170361379095373.post-35252572296197897812014-06-03T18:02:00.003-05:002014-06-03T21:02:08.176-05:00CT - Re-Elect ALEC - Shame on You<span style="font-size: large;">This headline reminds me of the "I am not a witch" commercial</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Lavielle: I am not an ALEC member</b></span></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.nancyonnorwalk.com/2014/06/lavielle-i-am-not-an-alec-member/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lavielle-i-am-not-an-alec-member" target="_blank">published today and it's got issues.</a></b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">This topic happens to be a campaign issue for Lavielle - many in CT are questioning whether this should be a campaign issue. ALEC is ALWAYS a campaign issue.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">One comment at the end of the article suggests it is Mccarthey-esque to ask</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Are you now or have you ever been an ALEC member.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Evidently someone - who is ignorant about ALEC and upset that their Repug candidate has been put under a philosophical belief microscope.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">To understand this story - you have to understand the mechanisms of ALEC.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the beginning of November, we the people, elect candidates to serve a public servants in our state house.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">In late November, early December ALEC holds a meeting named the "States and Nation Policy Summit".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">ALEC gives each state two full paid scholarships to send pro-corporate, newly elected public servants to attend the States and Nation Policy Summit meeting to indoctrinate them into ALEC.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Once indoctrinated into ALEC and once they have paid their dues - they become ALEC members in good standing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Once they are a member in good standing they are eligible to be a ALEC taskforce member</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The membership of a Task Force consists of legislators who
are members in good</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">standing of ALEC and are duly appointed to the Task Force,
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Section VI</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ms. Lavielle was elected in November of 2010.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ms. Lavielle was listed by ALEC as a member of the </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">As of 3/31/2011</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Therefore - she was a "member in good
standing of ALEC" - which is necessary in order to be a member of an ALEC taskforce.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">In August of 2011 - Ms. Lavielle was still listed as an Education Taskforce member, as of 7/11/2011 - a "member in good
standing of ALEC", when she attended the ALEC annual conference in NOLA in 2011.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Now let's look at the fantasy she cooked up to tell the reporter.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the article she notes:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which means that she paid for two years of ALEC membership.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> (Aug 2011 to July 2012, Aug 2012 to July 2013) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which means she received two years of ALEC propaganda.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Which means she had two years to access the ALEC secret vault of legislation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the article she states</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many members of my House caucus belong to ALEC. I don’t.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">What she means is I don't belong to ALEC NOW</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> because its an election year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The pure idiocy of this article is that Lavielle states</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">which is bullshit! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">She received all the ALEC mailings for two years </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">and during those two years she introduced ALEC legislation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">She is</span></span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/mctchmw" target="_blank"> listed by NELP</a> as </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Twenty-‐Nine ALEC-‐Affiliated Bills Aiming to Weaken or Repeal Living Wage and Prevailing Wage Laws</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">being the sponsor of CT HB5249 in JANUARY 2011</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bills calling for the total repeal of state living wage policies
directly reflect the policy objective of ALEC’s model bill titled the “Prevailing
Wage Repeal Act,” which states simply that “Any and all prevailing wage laws are
repealed.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">And it's important to understand that Ms. Lavielle - took office in January 2011.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">And then you have these</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">In 2013 - Introduced by Ms. Lavielle</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Proposed Bill No. 5009 </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">To move state employee pensions to defined contribution
plans</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Proposed Bill No. 5153</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">To require voters to present valid photo identification
prior to voting.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">And Lavielle would be very happy serving under ALECer Jan Brewer in Arizona.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><div class="MsoNormal">
Rep. Lavielle Opposes Bill Allowing <a href="http://cthousegop.com/2013/05/rep-lavielle-opposes-bill-allowing-drivers-licenses-for-undocumented-immigrants/" target="_blank">Driver’s Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Another item from the article</span></span><br />
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">What I
noticed in the Education meeting, however, was that the situations and school
systems being discussed didn’t bear any resemblance to those in Connecticut</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">She attended the Education Taskforce meeting in 2011 - a closed door meeting limited to members of the taskforce. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The membership of a Task Force consists of legislators who
are members in good</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">standing of ALEC and are duly appointed to the Task Force,
in accordance with</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Section VI</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">So now she says she quit - an election year.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">If ALECer says they quit ALEC </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">to be credible </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">the ALECer MUST publicly
acknowledge membership</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">publicly condemn ALEC; </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">AND actively work 2 repeal ALEC
evil</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">And Lavielle won't do that because her </span></span></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many members of my House caucus belong to ALEC. I don’t.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></blockquote>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Well, not so much - not many - SOME</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">According to ALEC documents - only 14%</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> (still too many - but 14% doesn't represent "many") </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Well - I guess Connecticut can give Lavielle a pass if they want - if they want a pro-corporate representative in their statehouse - go for it.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">ALECExposed "updated" their website after Lavielle complained to them that she was not a member "now".</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am not as gracious - as I said above:</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">If ALECer says they quit ALEC </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">to be credible </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">the ALECer MUST publicly
acknowledge membership</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">publicly condemn ALEC; </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">AND actively work 2 repeal ALEC
evil</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">And she won't - and I will bet - she will
rejoin ALEC as soon as the election is over and will be at the "States
and Nation Policy Summit" in DC in 2014 and I bet she will be back on
the ALEC Education Taskforce in 2015.</span></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fool me once - - - shame on me</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fool you twice - - - shame on YOU!</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lavielle has been listed - publicly in 2012 - in ALEC documents as an ALEC member since and NOW in an election year, she chooses to kick the American Legislative Exchange Council to the curb. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Too little - too late.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
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<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> #VoteNo2ALEC </span></b></span></span></div>
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</span>2old2carehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05111045634666075672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407170361379095373.post-86330888908980365952014-06-02T18:24:00.001-05:002014-06-03T07:11:12.365-05:00AZ - The Epitome of ALEC Stupidity VoteNo2ALECEverytime I think of Arizona I think of Jan Brewer selling the capitol buildings.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/09/jan-brewer-arizona-state-capitol_n_1195200.html" target="_blank">I love this statement:</a><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"There's just one problem, most of our Capitol Complex, including the
building we gather in today, is not ours," Brewer said in the speech to
the Arizona Legislature. "So to fortify that symbol, to make all of our
Capitol truly ours once again, I'm asking that you send me a bill by
Statehood Day that allows me to buy back the Capitol complex. Together,
we can celebrate the burning of that mortgage.</blockquote>
It epitomizes the absolute stupidity of malleable ALEC members <br />
<br />
The house the taxpayer built - she sold - cause ALEC said she should.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2002 - ALEC Report "Show Me the Money"</td></tr>
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The biggest hoot is that she sold the buildings in 2009 for $81 Million during a fiscal crisis.<br />
THEN Arizona LEASED the buildings from the company they sold it to - for more than two years.<br />
After paying rent for more than 2 years<br />
<a href="https://mj-tech.s3.amazonaws.com/ad_w_intersitial.html#interstitial=true&height=67&placement=Interstitial&redirect_url=http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/01/arizona-wants-buy-back-state-capitol-it-inexplicably-sold" target="_blank">Arizona bought it back</a> for $105 million in 2012..<br />
<br />
Arizona can't afford this kind of stupidity. Stupidity that legislators learn at meetings of the American legislative Exchange Council.<br />
<br />
ALEC members hide their affiliation with ALEC - and how do you get
rid of the dysfunction in your legislature if you don't even know whose
screwing up the works?<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">People need to know the real politics of candidates at the state, local and county level.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The race is on by the GOP to put more extremists in office and this list has a few of them.</span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>#VoteNo2ALEC </b></span></span></span></div>
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How do people get on an ALEC list?</b><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
That question comes up all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most common are:</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They serve on ALEC
task forces</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have paid ALEC
dues through their campaign finances</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They self
identified themselves somewhere , anywhere as an ALEC member.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have been shown
as a signatory on an ALEC letter.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have been
listed by ALEC as a member, in ALEC documents.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have been
“outed” by a credible source, on the web.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have attended
an ALEC meeting.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They previously were
employed by ALEC and now work in government.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Because these were pulled from the web and historical
documents some of the people listed are no longer living and some of them are
<a href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Legislators_Who_Have_Cut_Ties_to_ALEC" target="_blank">claiming they kicked ALEC to the curb</a> – which I question (I think they say
that just to get re-elected).</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Current ALEC
Member/Close Ties Affiliations</b></div>
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This one is pretty evident – the main purpose for knowing
the people who are currently affiliated with the extremist, pro-corporate American Legislative Exchange
Council is to get them out of government - any and all government.</div>
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We must make sure
that all current ALEC government employees are not re-elected or not
re-appointed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Some of the names on the list are candidates who ran for
office and were not elected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As part of
their campaign expenses, they paid for an ALEC membership.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We must make sure that these people are never
elected to public office and they want to be elected.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Past ALEC
Member/Close Ties Affiliations</b></div>
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This may seem questionable to some – but it is as important
as making sure that current members are not re-elected or elected.</div>
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It is important to know past members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just recently, many past ALEC members crawled
out from behind the baseboards (like the Kochroaches they are) to run for
office again or for appointments to state and federal commissions and other
offices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because these people were not
on the current lists which are posted elsewhere – they went unnoticed as ALEC
members.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Past ALEC members
are appointed to US government positions.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Past ALEC members
are appointed to state positions.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Past ALEC members
become lobbyists who have influence on your legislation.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Past ALEC members
become judges who have an influence on</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>your justice
system and decisions.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Past ALEC members
become regents of your universities who have</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>an influence on
the decisions made in relation to higher education.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Past ALEC members
serve on commissions that affect the running<br />
of your state.<br />
Past ALEC members
serve on councils or commissions that affect the running<br />
of your city, your county and your municipalities</div>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Past and current
ALEC members are generational in some states<br />
(aka family of ALECers)<br />
Past member run for office again at a later date!! <br />
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<b>Past and Present people with ties to ALEC</b><br />
It's
important to remember that all lists published anywhere on the web
should be considered incomplete partial lists - because ALEC members
hide their membership - because they ashamed to admit they belong to
ALEC.<br />
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<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Kirk D</td>
<td class="xl66">Adams</td>
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<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Linda G</td>
<td class="xl66">Aguirre</td>
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<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Carolyn<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></td>
<td class="xl66">Allen</td>
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<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Sylvia T</td>
<td class="xl66">Allen</td>
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<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Cecil<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></td>
<td class="xl66">Ash</td>
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<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Nancy<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></td>
<td class="xl66">Barto</td>
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<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Timothy
S<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></td>
<td class="xl66">Bee</td>
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<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Ernie</td>
<td class="xl66">Baird</td>
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<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Stan</td>
<td class="xl66">Barnes</td>
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<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Brenda
J<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></td>
<td class="xl66">Barton</td>
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<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Nancy</td>
<td class="xl66">Barto</td>
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<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Kenneth R</td>
<td class="xl66">Bennett</td>
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<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Andy</td>
<td class="xl66">Biggs</td>
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<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Pat</td>
<td class="xl66">Blake</td>
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<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Tom<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></td>
<td class="xl66">Boone</td>
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<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Russell</td>
<td class="xl66">Bowers</td>
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<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Paul</td>
<td class="xl66">Boyer</td>
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<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Jan<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></td>
<td class="xl66">Brewer</td>
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<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Scott<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></td>
<td class="xl66">Bundgaard</td>
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<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Judy<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></td>
<td class="xl66">Burges</td>
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<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Brenda</td>
<td class="xl66">Burns</td>
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<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Robert</td>
<td class="xl66">Burns</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Jim<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></td>
<td class="xl66">Buster</td>
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<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Cheryl</td>
<td class="xl66">Chase</td>
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<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Larry</td>
<td class="xl66">Chesley</td>
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<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Edward</td>
<td class="xl66">Cirillo</td>
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<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Doug</td>
<td class="xl66">Clark</td>
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<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Pat</td>
<td class="xl66">Connor</td>
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<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Steve<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></td>
<td class="xl66">Court</td>
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<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Rich</td>
<td class="xl66">Crandall</td>
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<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Chester</td>
<td class="xl66">Crandell</td>
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<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Sam</td>
<td class="xl66">Crump</td>
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<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Lori</td>
<td class="xl66">Daniels</td>
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<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Jeff</td>
<td class="xl66">Dial</td>
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<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Adam</td>
<td class="xl66">Driggs</td>
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<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Karen</td>
<td class="xl66">Fann</td>
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<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Eddie</td>
<td class="xl66">Farnsworth</td>
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<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">John</td>
<td class="xl66">Fillmore</td>
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<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Thomas<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></td>
<td class="xl66">Forese</td>
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<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Doris</td>
<td class="xl66">Goodale</td>
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<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Pamela<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></td>
<td class="xl66">Gorman</td>
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<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">David</td>
<td class="xl66">Gowan, Sr</td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Randall E</td>
<td class="xl66">Gnant</td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Randy</td>
<td class="xl66">Graf</td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Chuck</td>
<td class="xl66">Gray</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Linda</td>
<td class="xl66">Gray</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Rick</td>
<td class="xl66">Gray</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">John</td>
<td class="xl66">Greene</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Gail</td>
<td class="xl66">Griffin</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Jeff</td>
<td class="xl66">Groscost</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Jack<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></td>
<td class="xl66">Harper</td>
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<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Joe</td>
<td class="xl66">Hart</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">John</td>
<td class="xl66">Hays</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">James</td>
<td class="xl66">Henderson</td>
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<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Laurin</td>
<td class="xl66">Hendrix</td>
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<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">John</td>
<td class="xl66">Heppenthal</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Kyle</td>
<td class="xl66">Hindman</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Jane Dee</td>
<td class="xl66">Hull</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Marilyn</td>
<td class="xl66">Jarrett</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Leslie W</td>
<td class="xl66">Johnson</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Russell</td>
<td class="xl66">Jones</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Becky</td>
<td class="xl66">Jordan</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Peggy</td>
<td class="xl66">Judd</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">John</td>
<td class="xl66">Kaites</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">John<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></td>
<td class="xl66">Kavanagh</td>
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<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">John</td>
<td class="xl66">Keegan</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Frank</td>
<td class="xl66">Kelly</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Mark W</td>
<td class="xl66">Killian</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Lori</td>
<td class="xl66">Klein</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Jon<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></td>
<td class="xl66">Kyl</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Barbara<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></td>
<td class="xl66">Leff</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Debbie<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></td>
<td class="xl66">Lesko </td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Sue</td>
<td class="xl66">Lynch</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Wes</td>
<td class="xl66">Marsh</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Nancy</td>
<td class="xl66">McClain</td>
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<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Kate</td>
<td class="xl66">Brophy-Mcgee</td>
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<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">John</td>
<td class="xl66">McComish</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Sam</td>
<td class="xl66">McConnell</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Nancy</td>
<td class="xl66">McLain</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Javan JD</td>
<td class="xl66">Mesnard</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Albert Anthony</td>
<td class="xl66">Mesnard</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Richard</td>
<td class="xl66">Miranda</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Rick</td>
<td class="xl66">Murphy</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Warde</td>
<td class="xl66">Nichols</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Patricia A</td>
<td class="xl66">Noland</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Justin</td>
<td class="xl66">Olson</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Ruben F</td>
<td class="xl66">Ortega</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Jerry</td>
<td class="xl66">Overton</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Greg</td>
<td class="xl66">Patterson</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Tom</td>
<td class="xl66">Patterson</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Lester</td>
<td class="xl66">Pearce</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Russell<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></td>
<td class="xl66">Pearce</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Ed</td>
<td class="xl66">Phillips</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Gary</td>
<td class="xl66">Pierce</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Justin</td>
<td class="xl66">Pierce</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Steve</td>
<td class="xl66">Pierce</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Frank</td>
<td class="xl66">Pratt</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Terri</td>
<td class="xl66">Proud</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Doug</td>
<td class="xl66">Quelland</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Michele</td>
<td class="xl66">Reagan</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Amanda</td>
<td class="xl66">Reeve</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Gary</td>
<td class="xl66">Richardson</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Bob</td>
<td class="xl66">Robson</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Matt</td>
<td class="xl66">Salmon</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Ed</td>
<td class="xl66">Sawyer</td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Dan H</td>
<td class="xl66">Schottel</td>
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<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Don</td>
<td class="xl66">Shooter</td>
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<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">David<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></td>
<td class="xl66">Schweikert</td>
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<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Carol</td>
<td class="xl66">Springer</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Dave</td>
<td class="xl66">Burnell-Smith</td>
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<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Steve</td>
<td class="xl66">Smith</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Tom</td>
<td class="xl66">Smith</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">James</td>
<td class="xl66">Sossaman</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Lela</td>
<td class="xl66">Staffey</td>
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<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">David</td>
<td class="xl66">Stevens</td>
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<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Bob<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></td>
<td class="xl66">Stump</td>
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<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Sylvia</td>
<td class="xl66">Tenny-Allen</td>
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<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Andy</td>
<td class="xl66">Tobin</td>
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<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Warren A</td>
<td class="xl66">Turne</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Michelle</td>
<td class="xl66">Ugenti</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Steve R</td>
<td class="xl66">Urie</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Robert</td>
<td class="xl66">Usdane</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Thayer</td>
<td class="xl66">Verschoor</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Ted</td>
<td class="xl66">Vogt</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">James</td>
<td class="xl66">Waring</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">KellI</td>
<td class="xl66">Ward</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">James P</td>
<td class="xl66">Weiers</td>
</tr>
<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">John</td>
<td class="xl66">Wettaw</td>
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<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Patricia</td>
<td class="xl66">Wright</td>
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<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Steven<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></td>
<td class="xl66">Yarbrough</td>
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<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;">Kimberly</td>
<td class="xl66">Yee</td>
</tr>
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