Minnesota - Land of 10,000 ALEC Members

Minnesota

Land of 10,000 ALEC members!

Anyway it feels like that most every day!  Although Mary Kiffmeyer says there are only 30 - but that's probably a lie - based on what we are seeing in our legilsature.

Each person on the list has been compiled and cited using the web and you can also find the proof by researching through ALEC documents, reports and magazines and the Minnesota campaign finance webpage.

Lynda	Boudreau	MN
Laura	Brod	MN
Arne	Carlson	MN
Matt	Dean	MN
Steve	Drazkowski	MN
Tom	Emmer	MN
Sondra	Erickson	MN
Gil	Gutknecht	MN
Mike	Jungbauer	MN
Mary	Kiffmeyer	MN
Bill	Macklin	MN
Gen	Olson	MN
Patricia (Patty)	Pariseau	MN
Eric	Paulsen	MN
Jim	Ramstad	MN
Linda	Rundbeck	MN
Ron	Shimanski	MN
Steve	Swiggum	MN

Many more Minnesota legislators list can be found at ALEC Exposed– because they access to leaked documents that I don’t have.  Since I don’t have these documents on file – I won’t list those people in my blog.

AND if your legislator is not on either list – contact them and ask them, “Are you a member of ALEC?  There’s quite a few people on this ALEC list – I’d ask if I were you.

So what – what if people had a list – what does that accomplish? 

What would happen if people had a list - what will it accomplish? 

Does it really hurt ALEC if a list were available or would ALEC just go on – business as usual?

How would this information be used in a constructive way?

What is next – we HAVE TO REMOVE all ALEC members from state and federal government.  It is our role to make sure that they don’t get re-elected.  Now is the time for “boots to the ground” to use the information we have compiled on ALEC members and ALEC “model legislation” to prove to others that ALEC members MUST be removed from public service at any and all levels. 

ALEC just completed their four day conference where ALEC Corporations told your legislators what legislation they wanted to have passed and what legislation they did not want to have passed.

ALEC members are not serving the public – they are serving the ALEC corporations.  It does not matter how ALEC or their members spin this story over the next couple months it is important for you – to remember and to talk about the following fact:

When was the last time YOU got to sit with your legislator for two or three days and tell your legislator what YOUR needs are and help your legislator write legislation that benefited YOU?

Your ALEC legislator does this multiple times a year with corporations – so when push come to shove – it is evident who your legislator is representing – the ALEC corporations.

Past members are important – because they may come up for a state or federal appointment.

Campaign reports – report campaigns – so someone may be on the list that did not win  - but you can bet your boots they will try again.

ALEC members and those affiliated with ALEC in any manner

MUST NOT BE RE-ELECTED.

Without state and federal legislators ALEC will cease to exist and it will implode.

As a courtesy -
please don't take credit for this list or
post it anywhere on the web as your original work and research.
This blog - in whole and part - is copyright protected.

For more information on ALEC –

Please read this or this or this

or this series of six articles.

This is what ALEC is About  - Mark Pocan - About ALEC

Please do your part in educating people

by sending them the links to the articles and reports listed just above.

Wall Street Speculators & Oil Companies Screw Minnesota on Gas Prices

RED LINE  = Crude Oil Prices

BLUE LINE = Gas Prices in Minnesota

PURPLE LINE - added by me to show trend

(focus your attention to where the blue line trends above the purple line)



Wall Street Speculators & Oil Companies Screw Minnesota on Gas Prices



Trend is

Minnesota gas prices over the past FIVE YEARS show that

    

   The price at the pump over the most current six months 

        is almost exactly the same 

        as the price at the pump
        during the period of May to September of 2008

                         

  During the period of May to September 2008

      oil peaked at $134 a barrel

    

  WE are paying the same price at the pump today

      that we were paying during the period of May to September 2008

        BUT NOW oil has been less than $90 a barrel 

        for five of the last six months.

         

Barrell of oil is $134 - Minnesotans pay about $3.25 per gallon

Barrel of oil is less than $90 - Minnesotan STILL pay about $3.25 per gallon

BTW:  Gas around my house has been fluctuating between $3.45 and $3.57 for the past month - I don't know where GasBuddy (source of the graph) is getting a price around $3.23 for Minnesota).

UPDATE - 6 hours later:

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Exxon Mobil reported quarterly earnings of $10.3 billion on Thursday, a surge of 41% from a year earlier.

LONDON—Royal Dutch Shell PLC Thursday said net profit for the third quarter more than doubled, driven by strong oil and rising natural gas prices and as major projects ramp up production.

Net profit for the quarter totaled $6.98 billion, more than double the $3.46 billion posted a year ago. Group revenue was $123.41 billion, compared with $90.71 billion in the third quarter of 2010.

Oil companies and speculators get richer
The 99% get SCREWED!

#Occupy

ALEC TRIVIA - The Annual Meeting Pot o'Gold

How much does it cost corporations to buy ALEC legislators?

At the annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) - here's my calculation of how much corporations paid to buy your legislator - these are guesstimates, of course - based on information that I have from 2008 and 2010 - so the numbers are probably LOW.

Dinner and Speech Sponsorships	$   495,000.00
Sponsorships of the Annual Meeting - 82 companies	$2,005,000.00
Exhibitor Fees - 55 exhibitors (based on 2008 rates/member rate)	$     99,850.00
Corporate Scholarships for Legislators to attend the conference	$1,425,000.00
	$4,024,850.00

AND that's the mucho dinero for just one of three national meetings that ALEC holds.

And I'm sure that some company sponsored the Kiddie Kongress too - but I can't find the fee for that. 
Must cost a lot to brainwash kids for three days.

It's a deal at any price
to get in the pants of your legislator
so they can have pro-corporate legislation introduced at the state and federal level.

The corporations must be laughing all the way to their checkbooks to pay for the next meeting.

Michigan - A state with BIG ALEC problems!

Michigan

A state with BIG ALEC problems!

The rumor is I only have less than 1/2 the names for Michigan - 1/2 - it's rumored that it is well over 100 ALEC members in Michigan.

Each person on the list has been compiled and cited using the web and you can also find the proof by researching through ALEC documents, reports and magazines, the Michigan state bios, Michigan campaign finance webpage,  the Michigan manual, and other state and misc. webpages.

Jason E.	Allen	MI
Justin	Amash	MI
James A	Barcia	MI
Patricia (Patty)	Birkholz	MI
Mike	Bishop	MI
Bill	Bullard, Jr.	MI
David	Camp	MI
Allen	Cropsey	MI
Craig M	DeRoche	MI
Mat J.	Dunakiss	MI
Kevin	Elsenheimer	MI
Joanne	Emmons	MI
John	Engler	MI
David	Farhat	MI
Valde	Garcia	MI
John	Gardfield	MI
Ed	Gaffney	MI
Mike	Goshka	MI
Mike	Green	MI
Gail	Haines	MI
Dave	Hildenbrand	MI
Philip E.	Hoffmann	MI
Ken	Horn	MI
Bill	Huizenga	MI
Rick V.	Johnson	MI
Jerry O	Kooiman	MI
Mike	Kowall	MI
Wayne	Kuipers	MI
Phillip J	LaJoy	MI
Peter	Lund	MI
Jim	Marleau	MI
Mary Ann	Middaugh	MI
Leslie	Mortimer	MI
Aric	Nesbitt	MI
Gary	Newell	MI
Mike	Nofs	MI
David	Palsrok	MI
Bruce	Patterson	MI
Tom	Pearce	MI
Dick	Posthumus	MI
Randy	Richardville	MI
Dave	Robertson	MI
Bill	Rogers	MI
Mike	Rogers	MI
Tonya	Schuitmaker	MI
John	Schwarz	MI
Fulton	Sheen	MI
Kent	Sikkema	MI
Nick	Smith	MI
Barb	Vander Veen	MI
Tim	Walberg	MI
Christopher C	Ward	MI

11/10/11 - ADD
Susan Tabor
Beverly Hammerstrom


Another list can be found at ALEC Exposed– because they access to leaked documents that I don’t have.  Since I don’t have these documents on file – I won’t list those people in my blog.

AND if your legislator is not on either list – contact them and ask them, “Are you a member of ALEC?  There’s quite a few people on this ALEC list – I’d ask if I were you.

So what – what if people had a list – what does that accomplish? 

What would happen if people had a list - what will it accomplish? 

Does it really hurt ALEC if a list were available or would ALEC just go on – business as usual?

How would this information be used in a constructive way?

What is next – we HAVE TO REMOVE all ALEC members from state and federal government.  It is our role to make sure that they don’t get re-elected.  Now is the time for “boots to the ground” to use the information we have compiled on ALEC members and ALEC “model legislation” to prove to others that ALEC members MUST be removed from public service at any and all levels. 

ALEC just completed their four day conference where ALEC Corporations told your legislators what legislation they wanted to have passed and what legislation they did not want to have passed.

ALEC members are not serving the public – they are serving the ALEC corporations.  It does not matter how ALEC or their members spin this story over the next couple months it is important for you – to remember and to talk about the following fact:

When was the last time YOU got to sit with your legislator for two or three days and tell your legislator what YOUR needs are and help your legislator write legislation that benefited YOU?

Your ALEC legislator does this multiple times a year with corporations – so when push come to shove – it is evident who your legislator is representing – the ALEC corporations.

Past members are important – because they may come up for a state or federal appointment.

Campaign reports – report campaigns – so someone may be on the list that did not win  - but you can bet your boots they will try again.

ALEC members and those affiliated with ALEC in any manner

MUST NOT BE RE-ELECTED.

Without state and federal legislators ALEC will cease to exist and it will implode.

As a courtesy -
please don't take credit for this list or
post it anywhere on the web as your original work and research.
This blog - in whole and part - is copyright protected.

For more information on ALEC –

Please read this report or this report or this report

or this series of six articles.

And watch this news video  from North Carolina on how other ALEC "model legislation" is going to screw the citizens of North Carolina - legislation introduced by ALEC legislators.

This is what ALEC is About  _ Mark Pocan on Thom Hartmann