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[https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/asbestos-sharia-law-model-bills-lobbyists-special-interests-influence-state-laws/ Copy, paste, legislate
 
We looked for legislation that was written by special interests. We found it in all 50 states.]
 
[[File:American Legislative Exchange Council.jpg]]
 
 
ALEC Links:
 
* https://alec.org/
 
* https://www.linkedin.com/company/american-legislative-exchange-council/
 
* https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council
 
* https://kochdocs.org/2019/09/03/koch-industries-and-alec-a-history-of-documents/
 
* https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/alec-exposed-koch-connection/
 
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council
 
* https://www.mediamatters.org/american-legislative-exchange-council
 
* https://www.commoncause.org/connecticut/resource/what-is-alec/
 
* https://www.desmog.com/american-legislative-exchange-council/
 
* https://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed
 
* https://cldc.org/alec/
 
 
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[https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/asbestos-sharia-law-model-bills-lobbyists-special-interests-influence-state-laws/ <big>'''''Copy, paste, legislate; ALEC's Legislative Mill Factory'''''</big>]
 


''Via USA Today / The Arizona Republic / Center for Public Integrity -- April 2019''
''Via USA Today / The Arizona Republic / Center for Public Integrity -- April 2019''


''We looked for legislation that was written by special interests. We found it in all 50 states.''


''When legislators propose new laws, they don’t always write the bills themselves. Corporations, interest groups or their lobbyists often write fill-in-the-blank documents then shop them to state lawmakers.''
''When legislators propose new laws, they don’t always write the bills themselves. Corporations, interest groups or their lobbyists often write fill-in-the-blank documents then shop them to state lawmakers.''
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=ALEC=


='''ALEC: State-by-State Political Campaigns Using Model/Template Legislation'''=
'''State-by-State Political Campaigns: Model/Template Legislation'''


ALEC's task forces and policy centers publish "model policies" for states to use when drafting legislation.
ALEC's task forces and policy centers publish "model policies" for states to use when drafting legislation.
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<big>'''American Legislative Exchange Council'''</big>
<big>American Legislative Exchange Council</big>


• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council
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''ALEC also has a "Board of Scholars" that advises staff and members. The board is composed of Arthur Laffer, an economist who served on Ronald Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board; Victor Schwartz, chair of Public Policy at Shook, Hardy & Bacon; Richard Vedder, economics professor emeritus at Ohio University and adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute; and Bob Williams, founder of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation.''
''ALEC also has a "Board of Scholars" that advises staff and members. The board is composed of Arthur Laffer, an economist who served on Ronald Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board; Victor Schwartz, chair of Public Policy at Shook, Hardy & Bacon; Richard Vedder, economics professor emeritus at Ohio University and adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute; and Bob Williams, founder of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation.''


''ALEC also has ties to the State Policy Network (SPN), a national association of conservative and libertarian think-tanks. SPN is a member of ALEC,[60] and ALEC is an associate member of the SPN. SPN encourages its members to join ALEC, and many members of SPN are also members of ALEC. Some of the think tanks in the SPN write model legislation, which then is introduced at ALEC private meetings.''
''ALEC also has ties to the State Policy Network (SPN), a national association of conservative and libertarian think-tanks. SPN is a member of ALEC, and ALEC is an associate member of the SPN. SPN encourages its members to join ALEC, and many members of SPN are also members of ALEC. Some of the think tanks in the SPN write model legislation, which then is introduced at ALEC private meetings.''
 


:• https://www.alec.org/about/
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'''ALEC's website - https://www.alec.org/


'''ALEC's website - https://www.alec.org/ (as of January 2016) included over 700 other model policies.'''


: ALEC on Google - https://plus.google.com/+ALECorg
: ALEC on Google - https://plus.google.com/+ALECorg
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'''ALEC and Politics'''
<big>'''ALEC and Politics'''</big>


[https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=American+Legislative+Exchange+Council&um=1&ie=UTF-8 Google Search News and Updates on the American Legislative Exchange Council]  
[https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=American+Legislative+Exchange+Council&um=1&ie=UTF-8 Google Search News and Updates on the American Legislative Exchange Council]  




'''The ALEC agenda, a powerful lobbying agenda and organizing model, too often attempts to push back a green agenda...'''
'''ALEC's agenda, powerful lobbying and organizing, often attempting to push back a green agenda'''
   
   
:• [http://BillMoyers.com/2013/08/20/renewable-energy-overpowers-alec Bill Moyers - '''"Renewable energy overpowers ALEC"''']
:• [http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/25/3430835/clean-energy-solar-koch-alec/ '''Clean Energy v ALEC''']
:• [http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/25/3430835/clean-energy-solar-koch-alec/ '''Clean Energy v ALEC''']
:• [http://www.thenation.com/article/alec-exposed-koch-connection/ '''ALEC and Koch Connection''']
:• [http://www.thenation.com/article/alec-exposed-koch-connection/ '''ALEC and the Koch Connection''']
:• [http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed '''ALEC Exposed''']
:• [http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed '''ALEC Exposed''']
[http://BillMoyers.com/2013/08/20/renewable-energy-overpowers-alec '''"Bill Moyers / Renewable Energy & ALEC"''']


:• http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/11603/publicopoly_exposed/
:• http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/11603/publicopoly_exposed/
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:• http://article.wn.com/view/2011/07/13/ALEC_Exposed/
:• http://article.wn.com/view/2011/07/13/ALEC_Exposed/
:• http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-epa-states-20110714%2C0%2C5030269.story
:• http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-epa-states-20110714%2C0%2C5030269.story
:• http://www.alec.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=History&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=13643




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• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-05-03/alecs-secrets-revealed-corporations-flee (2012)
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-05-03/alecs-secrets-revealed-corporations-flee (2012)


• https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/us/alec-a-tax-exempt-group-mixes-legislators-and-lobbyists.html (2012)
• https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/us/alec-a-tax-exempt-group-mixes-legislators-and-lobbyists.html




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Note: The initial launch of GreenPolicy360 included references to the model initiatives of ALEC. Although the policy positions of the ALEC organization, founded in the 1990s, continues to oppose many of the positions and policies that are central to in the work of GreenPolicy360, we acknowledge and have our own 'model best practices' process.
Note: The initial launch of GreenPolicy360 included references to the model initiatives of ALEC. Although the policy positions of the ALEC organization continues to oppose many of the positions and policies central to the work of GreenPolicy360, we acknowledge that the 'model best practices' process is an effective way to move policy ideas into wide use and adoption.
 
The [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Green_Best_Practices green best practices] gathered in GreenPolicy360's database and organized for easy search are offered as exemplary green successes and ideas worthy of being passed forward in the U.S. -- and globally, community-to-community.
 
GreenPolicy360 is a sharing network and the exchange of best practices can be effective -- and smart.


The green best practices of GreenPolicy360 are offered as exemplary green successes and ideas worthy of being passed forward in the U.S. -- and globally, community-to-community.
The tens of millions who have shared and networked with us in nations, states and communities globally are 'turning ripples into waves'.




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American Legislative Exchange Council.jpg


ALEC Links:


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Copy, paste, legislate; ALEC's Legislative Mill Factory


Via USA Today / The Arizona Republic / Center for Public Integrity -- April 2019

We looked for legislation that was written by special interests. We found it in all 50 states.

When legislators propose new laws, they don’t always write the bills themselves. Corporations, interest groups or their lobbyists often write fill-in-the-blank documents then shop them to state lawmakers.

These copy-and-paste bills are commonly known as model legislation. More than 2,100 of these bills have been signed into law in the last eight years.


Montana as One Example of Coordinated State-by-State Model Legislation by Special Interests and ALEC

ALEC is a nonprofit organization of conservative state legislators and private sector representatives. Some have referred to it as a model bill factory...

“In recent years, ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, a group supporting industry and business, has been particularly controversial for the model legislative bills they are promoting in state Legislatures nationwide.”


ALEC

State-by-State Political Campaigns: Model/Template Legislation

ALEC's task forces and policy centers publish "model policies" for states to use when drafting legislation.


https://ballotpedia.org/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council

Model policies, coordinated, concerted political efforts

https://www.alec.org/model-policy/


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American Legislative Exchange Council

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council


ALEC provides a forum for state legislators and private sector members to collaborate on model bills—draft legislation that members may customize and introduce for debate in their own state legislatures. ALEC has produced model bills on a broad range of issues, such as reducing regulation and individual and corporate taxation, combating illegal immigration, loosening environmental regulations, tightening voter identification rules, weakening labor unions, and opposing gun control.

ALEC has nine "task forces" that generate model bills that members may customize and introduce for debate in their own state legislatures. Private sector members effectively have veto power over model bills drafted by the task forces.

Day-to-day operations are run from ALEC's Arlington, Virginia, office by an executive director and a staff of approximately 30. ALEC's bylaws specify that, "... full membership shall be open to persons dedicated to the preservation of individual liberty, basic American values and institutions, productive free enterprise, and limited representative government, who support the purposes of ALEC, and who serve, or formerly serve, as members of a state or territorial legislature, the United States Congress, or similar bodies outside the United States."

ALEC also has a "Board of Scholars" that advises staff and members. The board is composed of Arthur Laffer, an economist who served on Ronald Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board; Victor Schwartz, chair of Public Policy at Shook, Hardy & Bacon; Richard Vedder, economics professor emeritus at Ohio University and adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute; and Bob Williams, founder of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation.

ALEC also has ties to the State Policy Network (SPN), a national association of conservative and libertarian think-tanks. SPN is a member of ALEC, and ALEC is an associate member of the SPN. SPN encourages its members to join ALEC, and many members of SPN are also members of ALEC. Some of the think tanks in the SPN write model legislation, which then is introduced at ALEC private meetings.


https://www.alec.org/about/


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ALEC's website - https://www.alec.org/


ALEC on Google - https://plus.google.com/+ALECorg
ALEC on Twitter - https://twitter.com/ALEC_states
ALEC on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/AmericanLegislative
ALEC on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/alec.states/
ALEC on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4099726/profile



ALEC and Politics

Google Search News and Updates on the American Legislative Exchange Council


ALEC's agenda, powerful lobbying and organizing, often attempting to push back a green agenda

Clean Energy v ALEC
ALEC and the Koch Connection
ALEC Exposed


"Bill Moyers / Renewable Energy & ALEC"


http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/11603/publicopoly_exposed/
http://www.thenation.com/article/161975/sabotaging-healthcare
http://www.thenation.com/article/161973/koch-connection
http://www.cows.org/pdf/BusinessDominationInc.pdf
http://article.wn.com/view/2011/07/13/ALEC_Exposed/
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-epa-states-20110714%2C0%2C5030269.story



https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-05-03/alecs-secrets-revealed-corporations-flee (2012)

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/us/alec-a-tax-exempt-group-mixes-legislators-and-lobbyists.html



Note: The initial launch of GreenPolicy360 included references to the model initiatives of ALEC. Although the policy positions of the ALEC organization continues to oppose many of the positions and policies central to the work of GreenPolicy360, we acknowledge that the 'model best practices' process is an effective way to move policy ideas into wide use and adoption.

The green best practices gathered in GreenPolicy360's database and organized for easy search are offered as exemplary green successes and ideas worthy of being passed forward in the U.S. -- and globally, community-to-community.

GreenPolicy360 is a sharing network and the exchange of best practices can be effective -- and smart.

The tens of millions who have shared and networked with us in nations, states and communities globally are 'turning ripples into waves'.