R Street Institute
Apparently sub-shop split off after Unabomber and other embarassments, jettisoned global warming as a liability
had a debate public?
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reason mag
A federal appeals court last week took the highly unusual step of finding a U.S. constitutional cause of action in a challenge to a California state law—the latest wrinkle in a long-running and bitter dispute between a farmworkers' union and two large Central Valley fruit growers.
The California legislature approved a law last year that was designed to protect the state's businesses after two court decisions left them open to unforeseen liabilities regarding the minimum wage. The measure, Assembly Bill 1513, passed by solid majorities, was a sign of concern about broad economic harm if companies who had acted in good faith were forced to pay various fines for some commonly accepted payment practices.
This legislative overhaul of the state's wage-and-hour law waived all penalties if, by this Thursday, the companies paid their piece-rate workers back wages for any unpaid rest periods. The legislation would have been largely noncontroversial, except that it included carve-outs for two Fresno-based fruit growers—Fowler Packing Co. and Gerawan Farming. In other words, the law apparently applied to every California business, except for these particular companies, both of which had run afoul of a union.
According to A.B. 1513's language, the bill does not apply to "Claims for paid rest or recovery periods or pay for other nonproductive time that were made in any case filed prior to April 1, 2015, when the case contained by that date an allegation that the employer has intentionally stolen, diminished, or otherwise deprived employees of wages through the use of fictitious worker names or names of workers that were not actually working." That portion exempts the two companies because of an allegation made in a lawsuit.
These two firms allege that they were exempted from the benefits of the new law because the UFW had threatened to otherwise oppose the legislation, according to a *Sacramento Bee* report. The measure, by the way, was pushed through at the end of the legislative session as a "gut-and-amend" deal—language was stripped out of an existing bill and replaced at the last minute with new language. Such bills circumvent requirements for a full set of hearings and legislative vetting.
The district court dismissed the companies' complaint. But in the recent ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals partially reversed that decision and sent it back for further review.
Although the written opinion is still forthcoming, this is a significant ruling that focuses attention on the concept of equal protection, which was the main allegation made in the lawsuit. As their complaint argued, a key section of the law "not only arbitrarily excludes and punishes one employer based solely on an unproven allegation. It arbitrarily includes and protects employers, alleged to have used ghost workers, so long as they were sued after April 1, 2015. … (T)he ghost worker allegation carve-out is simply a mechanism to subject Fowler to disparate and punitive legislative treatment based solely on an allegation of wrongdoing."
The appeals court, however, rejected the farms' claim that the law had violated "bill of attainder" provisions in the U.S. Constitution. That refers to an act by any legislature that inflicts punishment without the protections of due process or judicial review—i.e., "trial by legislature." The plaintiffs had argued that the California Legislature exempted those companies based on some union allegations and was a form of punishment against them, in that it singled out Fowler and Gerawan, and did so without any legitimate, nonpunitive purpose.
"By denying those employers the protection that every other employer enjoys, the Legislature essentially adjudged them to be guilty of egregious conduct. But the Constitution does not give legislatures the power to determine guilt, it grants that authority to courts," explained the Pacific Legal Foundation's Wencong Fa in a column in the *San Francisco Daily Journal*. The foundation had filed an amicus brief on behalf of the companies and several farm organizations, including the California Farm Bureau and Western Grower.
The Fowler and Gerawan labor disputes have been a long-running California saga. The UFW has had a variety of disputes with Fowler. In the Gerawan situation, the company says the UFW had re-emerged at the farm after a long hiatus, claiming to be the rightful representative of the farmworkers there. The state Agricultural Labor Relations Board had refused to even count the ballots in a union de-certification election there—and imposed a seemingly unwanted contract on workers there. It's become a national news story and litigation continues.
A.B. 1513 was supported even by some agricultural organizations because of the advantages it provides to the industry in general. There's little disagreement it was the result of tough negotiations—a point the Brown administration has made in support for the law. But that doesn't mean Fowler and Gerawan don't make a valid argument. The new law could be of overall benefit to most California agricultural companies while still unfairly singling out two companies involved in disputes with one of the groups involved in those negotiations.
The official Assembly bill analysis puts the issue in perspective: "Supporters argue that this bill is a fair compromise for both employers and workers, addressing a situation where there was a significant development in case law. … Opponents argue that these arbitrary provisions set forth a troubling precedent that represents political targeting that sacrifices some companies to continued legal exposure in exchange for legal protections afforded to others."
Fowler and Gerawan asked the state to suspend enforcement of this week's deadline pending the outcome of the case as the federal courts take the rare step of reviewing a constitutional challenge to piece of state legislation.
Steven Greenhut is Western region director for the R Street Institute. This article was first published in Calwatchdog.comhttp://calwatchdog.com/2016/12/13/court-oks-constitutional-challenge-new-state-law-affecting-farm-industry/
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Also note that this Weekly Standard article is by the same author, Mark Hemingway, that we previously wrote about…
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In fact, Kevin R Kosar is a Senior Fellow at the R Street Institute. According to a testimonial from Summer 2015 Koch Fellow John D’Ambrosio that is actually published on the Charles Koch Institute website:
I was lucky enough to transition into the Koch Fellow Program. I gained extensive policy experience working at the R Street Institute in Washington, DC, where I researched disruptive technology policy, contributed to a nationally recognized research project, and wrote multiple policy blogs that were published on R Street’s website.
In addition to employing Koch Fellows, R Street Institute is listed by SourceWatch as an “Associate Member” of the State Policy Network (SPN). SourceWatch also alleges that:
Fueled by robust funding from right-wing funders including the Koch brothers, the Bradley Foundation, the anonymous wealthy donors to the donor-advised funds of DonorsTrust, and others, SPN has grown rapidly in recent years.
Thursday, Jan 14, 2016 · 1:31:46 PM PST · WeAreKochs
This speaks for itself:
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Kevin R. Kosar, Ph.D., is the Director of the Governance Project and a Senior Fellow at the R Street Institute, a Washington, DC think-tank.
Between 2003 and 2014, Kosar served as an analyst and research manager at the Library of Congress‘s Congressional Research Service.
He is the author of Ronald Reagan and Education Policy, Failing Grades: The Federal Politics of Education, and Whiskey: A Global History. He has testified before Congress, and published on a variety of governance and public policy subjects: education policy, quasi governmental entities, privatization, the Postal Service, government communications, and propaganda.
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The Code of Federal Regulations is more than 170,000 pages long. How did it become such a behemoth? Simple: every year, about 4,000 new regulations are proposed, and each new rule can run anywhere from one to hundreds of pages in length. Far fewer regulations are scraped from the books each year.
This is the problem often called “regulatory accumulation.” Make no mistake, this is not just one of those inside-the-Beltway issues. Regulatory accumulation is a major problem, the costs of which are felt nationwide.
Regulations act a bit like an invisible tax. The government does not send anyone a bill, but the public pays the cost nonetheless. A Mercatus Institute study notes that regulatory accumulation can act as a drag on the economy. New regulations issued during the Obama administration alone are estimated to cost Americans $80 billion, according to a new Heritage Foundation study. Complying with all current federal regulations, according to the OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, takes Americans 10 billion hours per year.
Too many regulations also can inhibit entrepreneurship. Seeing why requires no more than opening the Code of Federal Regulations. Despite agencies' attempts to write clearly, regulations can be extremely difficult to understand. For example, the person who starts a direct-mail marketing company might look at 39*C.F.R.*121 to discern the various mail classes and their delivery speeds. There, he will encounter text like this:
(a) End-to-End. (1) The service standard for Sectional Center Facility (SCF) turnaround Standard Mail pieces accepted at origin before the day-zero Critical Entry Time is 3 days when the origin Processing & Distribution Center/Facility (OPD&C/F) and the SCF are the same building, except for mail between the territories of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands....
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Kevin Kosar - R Street Institute
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Kevin R. Kosar – Researcher and Writer in Washington, DC
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Washington Monthly | Why I Quit the Congressional Research Service
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Kevin R. Kosar - The Claremont Institute
www.claremont.org/crb/contributor-list/18/
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Kevin R. Kosar Articles | Weekly Standard
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Whiskey: A Global History (Edible): Kevin R. Kosar: 9781861897800 ...
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Kevin R. Kosar | People | Foundation for Economic Education
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Kevin R Kosar | R Street Institute - Academia.edu
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Kevin R. Kosar > Authors > National Affairs
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Inhofe Introduces the Federal Lands Freedom Act (FLFA) of 2015
“While we have seen an energy revolution in the United States the past year, this is in spite of the president’s policies that are intended to stifle the development of our domestic resources,” said Inhofe. “One of the leading ways he can control our energy resources is by dictating what can take place on federal land across the states. The states, not the federal government, are the ones best equipped to tend to the extensive unused and unprotected lands across the nation that the federal government has staked a claim to. Currently about 60 percent of federal land is off limits to energy production. It also takes 700 times longer to get a drilling permit on federal lands compared to private lands in Oklahoma, which is why we have seen energy production on these lands drop by 6 percent for oil and 28 percent for natural gas on since 2009. The Federal Lands Freedom Act takes a necessary step toward restoring the Constitution’s trust in the states while also ensuring an ongoing energy revolution across the United States.”
The bill empowers states to establish programs to lease, permit, and regulate the development of all forms of energy resources on federal lands, including renewables. Once a state makes a declaration that such a program has been established, the state would receive the rights to develop the energy resources located on the federal lands within its borders.
The bill does not affect the ownership of the resources or change the royalty structure, and states will continue to receive half of the value of royalties earned from production on federal lands within their state.
Domestic oil production is now 9.2 million barrels per day, 77 percent higher than in 2009. Natural gas production is now 22 percent higher than in 2009. All of this increase has occurred on state and private lands. According to the Congressional Research Service, oil production on federal lands fell by 6 percent and natural gas production fell by 28 percent between 2009 and 2013.
The legislation has the support of Heritage Action, Western Energy Alliance, the R Street Institute, and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
Inhofe first introduced the legislation in the 113th Congress.
COMPANIES ENDING HEARTLAND INSTITUTE FUNDING
due to climate change denial campaigns:
- **General Motors** --LA Times
- Diageo -- the Guardian
- Pepsi, BB&T and Eli Lilly -- Forecast the Facts
Heartland's entire Finance, Insurance and Real Estate program (now the R Street Institute), including:
- State Farm -- see their Facebook announcement
- The Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers (ABIR) -- see CEO Brad Kading's letter to Heartland President Joseph Bast
- Allied World Assurance, USAA, XL Group and Renaissance Reinsurance -- Forecast the Facts
- RenaissanceRe's Robert Lamendola resigned from Heartland's board of directors -- E&E News ClimateWire
Farmer's Insurance and Nationwide Insurance have also confirmed (E&E News ClimateWire) they will not support the Heartland Institute. **Microsoft** has stated that "the Heartland Institute’s position on climate change is diametrically opposed to Microsoft’s position. And we completely disagree with the group’s inflammatory and distasteful advertising campaign."
SEE FORECAST THE FACTS FOR A FULL LOOK AT CORPORATE FUNDERS WHO HAVE LEFT OR STAYED WITH THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE'S CLIMATE SCIENCE DENIAL
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http://climatecrocks.com/2013/06/15/the-weekend-wonk-conservatives-debate-carbon-tax-carbon-tax-wins/
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women endorse carbon tax
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/14/heartland-institute-climate-r-street-institute_n_1515746.html
WASHINGTON -- The Heartland Institute's insurance research project, formerly the Center on Finance, Insurance and Real Estate, which on Friday announced its split from Heartland, "will not promote climate change skepticism," according to Ray J. Lehmann, the project's director of public affairs.
The departure comes just a week after the institute launched a radical attack on climate science in the form of a billboard campaign that compared a belief in global warming to the psychology of mass murder.
Lehmann wrote in an email to personal contacts that the renamed group, the R Street Institute, will continue to focus on "catastrophe insurance, regulatory transparency, credit union deregulation, reform of the National Flood Insurance Program and federal crop insurance, ending environmentally destructive subsidies, [and] reevaluating public health risks."
The letter then adds, "one thing that will certainly change from ending our association with Heartland: R Street will not promote climate change skepticism."
The announcement is part of a larger defection from Heartland that kicked off in the wake of the launch of its Chicago billboard, which featured Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, along with the words, "Do you still believe in global warming? I do."
On Monday, following pressure from a coalition of groups that includes Forecast the Facts, Sierra Club, 350.org, SumOfUs, the League of Conservation Voters and Greenpeace, pharmaceutical maker Eli Lilly (LLY), BB&T Bank (BBT) and PepsiCo (PEP) confirmed that they will cease to fund the Heartland Institute.
Other sponsors that have jumped ship are the United Services Automobile Association, beverage giant Diageo (the parent organization to Guinness, Smirnoff, Johnnie Walker and Moet & Chandon) and automobile insurance company State Farm, which said in a simple statement on Tuesday, "State Farm is ending its association with the Heartland Institute. This is because of a recent billboard campaign launched by the Institute."
The full letter from Lehmann follows:
As you may or may not be aware, Eli Lehrer, Deborah Bailin, Christian Camara, Julie Drenner, Alan Smith and myself will be leaving the Heartland Institute, effective May 31.
On June 1, we in the former Center on Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate will be launching a new, independent nonprofit educational foundation ("think tank") that will be known as the R Street Institute, or just simply "R Street." We will initially be working on much the same portfolio of issues we already have been -- catastrophe insurance, regulatory transparency, credit union deregulation, reform of the National Flood Insurance Program and federal crop insurance, ending environmentally destructive subsidies, reevaluating public health risks -- but that group of issues may grow as we build our project.
We will continue to operate out of the same offices here in Washington, D.C., and we will continue to have the same operating mantra of "deep focus, broad coalitions and rapid response" to guide our work.
There is one thing that will certainly change from ending our association with Heartland: R Street will not promote climate change skepticism.
I hope to continue to work with any and all of you as R Street rolls out. We are in the process of building our web site and product portfolio and should have more details about both in the weeks ahead.
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Eli Lehrer is president and co-founder of the R Street Institute, a free-market think tank. He oversees R Street’s central headquarters in Washington, D.C., as well as its field offices in Tallahassee, Fla.; Columbus, Ohio; and Austin, Texas and manages the organization’s $2.5 million budget.
Prior to co-founding R Street, Lehrer was vice president of the Heartland Institute. He also played a major role in founding SmarterSafer.org, a coalition of taxpayer, environmental, insurance and free-market groups dedicated to risk-based insurance rates, mitigation and environmental protection.
He is the author of several academic book chapters on emergency management and insurance topics; and was editor of Heartland’s “Seven Big Ideas for Congress.” His research has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and USA Today.
Lehrer worked as speechwriter to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.He previously worked as a manager inUnisys Corp.’s Homeland Security Practice, was senior editor of The American Enterprise magazine, and a fellow of the Heritage Foundation.
Lehrer earned a bachelor of arts, cum laude, from Cornell University and a master’s with honors from Johns Hopkins University, where his master’s thesis focused on the Federal Emergency Management Agency. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today,Washington Times,Weekly Standard, National Review, Public Interest, Salon and dozens of other publications. He is a member of the board of the Log Cabin Republicans, an organization representing gay and lesbian conservatives and their allies.
Lehrer lives in Herndon, Va. with his wife, Kari, and son, Andrew.
Phone: 202.615.0586
Email: elehrer@rstreet.org
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Eli Lehrer, Strange Bedfellows: SmarterSafer.Org and the Biggert-Waters Act of 2012, 23 Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 351-361 (Spring 2013)
Available at: http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/delpf/vol23/iss2/7
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COALITION
SmarterSafer.org, formerly Americans for Smart Natural Catastrophe Policy, was formed in 2008 and has since expanded as a variety of different voices have come together to support and advocate for smarter, more effective policies to help people in need, promote disaster safety and preparedness, and foster sounder environmental stewardship of our fragile coastal ecosytems.
MEMBERS
Environmental Organizations
American Rivers
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES)
CeresConservAmerica
Defenders of Wildlife
Natural Resources Defense Council
National Wildlife Federation
Sierra Club
The Nature Conservancy
Consumer and Taxpayer Advocates
R StreetNational Taxpayers UnionTaxpayers for Common SenseTaxpayers Protection Alliance
Insurer Interests
Allianz of AmericaAssociation of Bermuda Insurers and ReinsurersThe Chubb CorporationLiberty Mutual GroupNational Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC)National Flood Determination AssociationReinsurance Association of AmericaSwissReUSAA
Mitigation Interests
Natural Hazard Mitigation AssociationNational Fire Protection AssociationHousingNational Housing ConferenceNational Leased Housing Association
ALLIED ORGANIZATIONS
American Consumer InstituteAssociation of State Floodplain ManagersCenter for Clean Air PolicyFriends of the EarthInstitute for LibertyUnion of Concerned ScientistsZurich
Allied groups are organizations that have signed on to the SmarterSafer.org Statement of Principles, but do not necessarily support all specific proposals that SmarterSafer.org puts forward.
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SMARTERSAFER.ORG STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES
Posted on January 20, 2012 by smartersafer.org
Build Smart: Properties in coastal areas and other high-hazard areas should be built, replaced or repaired according to the most modern building standards and codes reflecting exposure to natural disasters and effective loss-reduction measures. Based on the continuing scientific assessment of the effects and consequences of a changing climate, property and infrastructure development in coastal and other high-hazard areas have placed people in harm’s way and property at significant risk of loss due to natural catastrophic events.
Encourage Safety: Government incentives should promote risk-avoidance and proactive mitigation measures to protect the public from a broad range of natural disasters, including wind, flood, wildfires and earthquakes.
Use Nature: To protect both the public and ecosystems that provide natural “buffers” to storms, renewed efforts should be made to preserve coastal areas consistent with effective state and federal laws, using uniform, objective standards.
Insure Based On Risk: Private and public property insurance premiums should be established on the basis of risk exposure, including catastrophic risk, subject to state law that risk premiums should be neither excessive nor inadequate.
Assume Responsibility: Responsibility for state insurance and reinsurance programs that pool natural disaster risks should remain with those states which have established such programs, rather than shifting the financing to the Federal government through such means as Federal loans or reinsurance.
Target Government Assistance: Programs should focus on people and not insurance: Extend tax credits, loans and grants for measures designed to protect the property from natural disasters – rather than for programs designed to support artificially low insurance rates. Provide means-based assistance, focused on low and fixed income residents – not high income individuals with expensive beach front or vacation homes. Help existing property in coastal areas and other high-risk areas — Federal assistance should not subsidize new property development in coastal areas vulnerable to catastrophic storms, or other high-risk areas.
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hiring in CA, also
The R Street Institute, a free-market think tank located in Washington, D.C., is seeking a senior-level director for its new project on governance. The director will spearhead a new initiative to make government work better from a distinctly free-market perspective of “limited, effective government.” In short, we want somebody interested in working to “fix” democratic dysfunction in ways that satisfy advocates of limited government.
To date, most of those looking at legislative process and institutional reform have come from the center or left of the political spectrum. As a group on the right, we look at democratic dysfunction through a prism informed by our own public policy preferences. In particular, we think government should live within its means, regulate only when no viable market alternative exists, rigorously assess the effectiveness of government programs, and end those that are ineffective or counterproductive.
We want somebody who agrees with these principles. The person would investigate, explore and advance proposals like reforming the congressional committee system, improving the budget process, instituting stronger regulatory review, creating a better process for overseeing and evaluating program effectiveness, and ending programs that are not cost effective. We’re not imposing an ideological litmus test on the person we hire—many of us wouldn’t pass one—but we do want somebody who is comfortable being part of the conservative movement.
During the first year on the job, we expect that the person we hire for this job would identify and explore a range of issues that we could address in this area, lead a process whereby we prioritize a sub-set to focus on, produce one or two major white papers on issues related to governance, publish a number of articles, and host several small events on the Hill and elsewhere. By the end of the year, this work should result in a full-throated agenda and vision for “limited, effective government” that is both credible and actionable.
Requirements
The person we hire should have 10 or more years of experience with issues of governance, includingat least some experience working in the government (ideally in Congress.) A record of published work on public policy issues is also required and publications from magazines like The Weekly Standard and National Review are as important (maybe more important) than academic papers. An advanced degree is very strongly preferred and experience managing projects is also desirable. We want a person, in short, who canhold his or her own with the top scholars of Congress working in think tanks today.
Application
Qualified candidates should submit the following application materials in one PDF file:
- Résumé
- Cover letter detailing your interest in this position/mission of the organization and your salary requirements
- At least two published writing samples
Materials should be emailed to Claire Kittle, Executive Director of Talent Market, who is assisting with the search: claire@talentmarket.org.
This position will remain open until filled. We currently anticipate that we’ll accept applications until June 20, 2014. We’ll conduct final-in person interviews in late June or early July and make a job offer at the same time. This timeline may change.
While we thank all applicants for their interest in this position, we are only able to contact those to whom we can offer an interview. No phone calls, please.
Other Important Stuff
Salary will be commensurate with experience. The job also has an excellent benefits package that includes health insurance with a premium fully paid for by the employer, bike sharing, health club membership reimbursement, employer-provided breakfast, a 401(k), an employer-paid mobile phone and an exceptionally generous leave policy.
R Street doesn’t discriminate on the basis of race, sex, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity,veteran status, taste in music or anything else that’s illegal, immoral or stupid to use as a basis for hiring.
| George David Banks, Senior FellowSenior fellow with R Street. He is also managing director of Vanguard Political, a consultancy specializing in energy and environment issues on the state and federal level. | George David Banks, Senior FellowSenior fellow with R Street. He is also managing director of Vanguard Political, a consultancy specializing in energy and environment issues on the state and federal level. |
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| Don Brown, Senior FellowSenior fellow with R Street’s Florida project. He is a former state representative in the Florida House of Representatives. | |
| Christian Cámara, Senior FellowR Street’s Florida director and a co-founder of the institute. He previously held the same position with the Heartland Institute’s Center on Finance, Insurance and Real Estate. | |
| Julie Drenner, Senior FellowR Street’s Texas director and a co-founder of the institute. She previously held the same position with the Heartland Institute’s Center on Finance, Insurance and Real Estate. | |
| R.J. Lehmann, Senior FellowSenior fellow, editor-in-chief and co-founder of R Street. He is an award-winning business journalist who spent a decade covering the insurance, banking and securities industries. | |
| Andrew Moylan, Senior FellowExecutive director and senior fellow for R Street, where he acts as the “tip of the spear” for the organization in public settings, maintaining its policy focus and relationships with policymakers, donors and the non-profit community. | |
| Joel Nitzkin, Senior FellowSenior fellow in tobacco studies at R Street. He is a public health physician, board certified in preventive medicine, with a master’s degree in public health and a doctorate in public administration. | |
| Lori Sanders, Senior FellowOutreach director and senior fellow at the R Street Institute. She is responsible for R Street’s coalition efforts, as well as providing public outreach and education about public policy issues. | |
| Alan Smith, Senior FellowCo-founder, Midwest director and a senior fellow for the R Street Institute. He was previously Ohio director of the Heartland Institute. |
| Kelly Ash, Policy AnalystCalifornia director and policy analyst at the R Street Institute. |
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http://www.ecigarettedirect.co.uk/interviews/joel-nitzkin-electronic-cigarette.html
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Dr. Joel L. Nitzkinis senior fellow in tobacco policy for the R Street Institute.
Joel is a public health physician, board certified in preventive medicine as his medical specialty. He has been a local health director, a state health director and president of two national public health organizations.
Since the mid-1990s, Joel has been in the private practice of public health as a health policy consultant. In this capacity, he has taken on a number of research and teaching assignments for federal, state and local public health agencies; assisted with accreditation of a managed care organization; and done substantial expert witness work related to communicable disease control, quality of health care, and tobacco control.
In 2007, while serving as co-chair of the Tobacco Control Task Force of the American Association of Public Health Physicians, Joel played a lead role in exploring policy options for reducing tobacco-attributable illness, death and property damage in the United States. It was this effort that focused his attention on tobacco harm reduction as a potential life-saving measure and on other problematic aspects of current American tobacco control policy.
Over the next four years, Joel worked with and through the AAPHP, at his own expense, to advocate for consideration of THR within the public health community and to secure positive action on what he perceived to be related problematic issues. Finding these efforts to be extremely frustrating, Joel subsequently partnered with R Street as organizations independent of government, major pharmaceutical firms and the tobacco industry, yet interested in THR as a scientifically sound and market-oriented alternative to selected aspects of current American tobacco control policy.
In 2012, serving as a volunteer with a modicum of support to offset travel and other costs, Joel has made presentations on THR and related issues to a variety of tobacco industry, medical, public health and state legislative audiences. He has also taken action to place THR on the agenda of the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association.
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Policy Experts
George David Banks, Senior Fellow
Senior fellow with R Street. He is also managing director of Vanguard Political, a consultancy specializing in energy and environment issues on the state and federal level.
Don Brown, Senior Fellow
Senior fellow with R Street’s Florida project. He is a former state representative in the Florida House of Representatives.
Christian Cámara, Senior Fellow
R Street’s Florida director and a co-founder of the institute. He previously held the same position with the Heartland Institute’s Center on Finance, Insurance and Real Estate.
Julie Drenner, Senior Fellow
R Street’s Texas director and a co-founder of the institute. She previously held the same position with the Heartland Institute’s Center on Finance, Insurance and Real Estate.
R.J. Lehmann, Senior Fellow
Senior fellow, editor-in-chief and co-founder of R Street. He is an award-winning business journalist who spent a decade covering the insurance, banking and securities industries.
Andrew Moylan, Senior Fellow
Executive director and senior fellow for R Street, where he acts as the “tip of the spear” for the organization in public settings, maintaining its policy focus and relationships with policymakers, donors and the non-profit community.
Joel Nitzkin, Senior Fellow
Senior fellow in tobacco studies at R Street. He is a public health physician, board certified in preventive medicine, with a master’s degree in public health and a doctorate in public administration.
Lori Sanders, Senior Fellow
Outreach director and senior fellow at the R Street Institute. She is responsible for R Street’s coalition efforts, as well as providing public outreach and education about public policy issues.
Alan Smith, Senior Fellow
Co-founder, Midwest director and a senior fellow for the R Street Institute. He was previously Ohio director of the Heartland Institute.
Kelly Ash, Policy Analyst
California director and policy analyst at the R Street Institute.
Zach Graves, Policy Analyst
Digital director and policy analyst focusing on technology issues. He is responsible for R Street's digital strategy and online advocacy efforts, and oversees several of R Street's tech policy campaigns.
Ryan Xue, Policy Analyst
2014 Google Policy Fellow for the R Street Institute.
Associate Fellows
Ned Andrews, Associate Fellow
An associate fellow with the R Street Institute.
Ryan Cooper, Associate Fellow
Ryan Cooper is web editor of Washington Monthly and an associate fellow of the R Street Institute.
Peter Cramton, Associate Fellow
Peter Cramton is professor of economics at the University of Maryland and an associate fellow of the R Street Institute. He has studied auction theory and practice since 1983, focusing particularly on the design of spectrum, electricity and treasury auctions.
Ernst Csiszar, Associate Fellow
Ernst Csiszar is former South Carolina insurance director, a clinical professor of finance at the University of South Carolina’s Moore School of Business, and an associate fellow of the R Street Institute.
Michael Farren, Associate Fellow
Michael Farren is an associate fellow of the R Street Institute and a graduate research associate at Ohio State University.
Holly Fretwell, Associate Fellow
Holly L. Fretwell is a research fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center, an adjunct instructor of economics at Montana State University and an associate fellow of the R Street Institute.
David Frum, Associate Fellow
David Frum is a senior editor with the Atlantic magazine and an associate fellow of the R Street Institute. David served as a special assistant to President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2002.
Adam Gurri, Associate Fellow
Adam Gurri is an associate fellow at the R Street Institute and a writer for The Ümlaut.
Andrew Hanson, Associate Fellow
Andrew Hanson is an associate professor of economics at Marquette University and an associate fellow of the R Street Institute.
Sarah Hunt, Associate Fellow
Sarah Hunt is manager of state issues at Stateside Associates, an Arlington, Va.-based government affairs firm, and an associate fellow of the R Street Institute.
Derek Khanna, Associate Fellow
Derek Khanna is an associate fellow at the R Street Institute and a visiting fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project.
Lawrence Mirel, Associate Fellow
Lawrence Mirel is the former insurance, securities, and banking commissioner of the District of Columbia, a partner with Nelson Levine de Luca & Hamilton, and an associate fellow of the R Street Institute.
John Norquist, Associate Fellow
John Norquist is former mayor of Milwaukee, president and chief executive officer of Congress for the New Urbanism, and an associate fellow of the R Street Institute.
Lars Powell, Associate Fellow
Lars Powell is the Whitbeck-Beyer Chair of Insurance and Financial Services at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock and an associate fellow of the R Street Institute.
Scott Richardson, Associate Fellow
Scott H. Richardson is former South Carolina insurance director, partner at Richardson & Ritchie Consulting, and an associate fellow of the R Street Institute.
Brad Rodu, Associate Fellow
Brad Rodu is endowed chair in tobacco harm reduction research at the University of Louisville’s James Graham Brown Cancer Center and an associate fellow with the R Street Institute.
Daniel M. Rothschild, Associate Fellow
Associate fellow with the R Street Institute. His popular writing and articles and reviews have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Reason, the Chicago Policy Review, Economic Affairs and many other popular and policy publications.
Molly Schwartz, Associate Fellow
Molly Schwartz is an associate fellow at the R Street Institute, a member of the steering committee for the Congressional Data Coalition, and a Fulbright scholar.
Marni Soupcoff, Associate Fellow
Marni Soupcoff is a managing editor at the Huffington Post Canada and an associate fellow at the R Street Institute.
Steven Titch, Associate Fellow
Steven Titch is an associate fellow of the R Street Institute, focused on telecommunications, the Internet and information technology.
Associate Policy Analysts
Ian Adams, Associate Policy Analyst
Ian Adams is an attorney in Sacramento, Calif. and an associate policy analyst of the R Street Institute.
Kathryn Ciano, Associate Policy Analyst
Kathryn Ciano is an associate policy analyst at the R Street Institute and an attorney in private practice in Washington, D.C.
Michael Hamilton, Associate Policy Analyst
Michael Hamilton is an associate policy analyst of the R Street Institute and the founder of In My Backyard – DC, a local advocacy group that supports a more interesting and affordable District of Columbia.
Mytheos Holt, Associate Policy Analyst
Mytheos Holt is an associate policy analyst with the R Street Institute and a contributor to its Word on the Street blog.
Jeremy Kolassa, Associate Policy Analyst
Jeremy Kolassa is a contributor for R Street’s Word on the Street blog and assistant editor of UnitedLiberty.org.
Leah Libresco, Associate Policy Analyst
Leah Libresco is a writer for Patheos, assistant editor at American Conservative, and an associate policy analyst of the R Street Institute.
Jason Pye, Associate Policy Analyst
Jason Pye is editor of UnitedLiberty.org, a libertarian blog dedicated to free markets, individual liberty and limited government, and is an associate policy analyst of the R Street Institute.
Emily Zanotti, Associate Policy Analyst
Emily Zanotti is editor-in-chief of Naked DC and an associate policy analyst of the R Street Institute. She has a JD from Ave Maria School of Law with a focus in intellectual property and technology law.
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NC Democratic Party chair hopeful is active in ALEC
North Carolina Democrats are looking for a good leader, and the stakes couldn't be higher. The party's national convention in Charlotte is three months away, the state will be a key 2012 battleground in November, and the current state chair is expected to step aside soon amidst a sexual harassment scandal roiling the party.
Enterstate Sen. Don Vaughan of Greensboro, who this week:{became the first to:(style="background-color:#ffffff;"):}::{ announce his bid:(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}: for state Democratic Party chairman.
In a statement, Vaughan burnished his credentials as a two-term state senator, veteran of Greensboro politics and leader in "the party that built North Carolina's schools, North Carolina's 21st century economy, and North Carolina's reputation as the civil rights leader in the South."
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But more controversially for state Democrats, Vaughan has also been a long-time member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the conservative and largely Republican-led advocacy group that has ignited controversy -- and recently lost key funders -- due to its role in pushing controversial voting and gun laws.
Founded in 1973 by right-wing activist Paul Weyrich, ALEC solicits funding and advice from corporate backers to develop model legislation, which is then used by conservative lawmakers to craft state legislation -- often verbatim. The conservative philanthropist Koch brothers have given at least $1 million to the group, as well as loaned the group another half-million when they were economically floundering.
In the last month, at least 13 companies, as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, have pulled their support from ALEC due to the group's leadership in pushing controversial laws like restrictive voting ID bills and Florida's "Stand Your Ground" measure, which drew attention after the February 2012 shooting of Trayvon Martin.
Nationally, Democrats involved in ALEC -- few to begin with -- have been distancing themselves from the group. On April 25, South Carolina Rep. Ted Vick (D) announced he was quittingbecause the group had become "too extreme."
But so far, Sen. Vaughan has apparently made no public effort to disavow his ALEC connections.
Vaughan has reportedly been a member of ALEC since the 1980s. According to Sourcewatch, a website run by the watchdog Center for Media and Democracy, more than 40 North Carolina legislators are involved with the group, but only three Democrats. Vaughan is the only Democratic state senator linked to ALEC.
Vaughan's connection to ALEC appears to center around education policy. According to aninternal ALEC memo obtained by Common Cause, in December 2010 Sen. Vaughan was one of 18 legislators nationally who attended an Ohio meeting of ALEC's Education Task Force, of which Vaughan is a member.
Terry Stoops of the John Locke Foundation, a think tank largely funded by the family foundation of GOP donor Art Pope, later reported that Vaughan "introduced model legislation" to the ALEC education task force.
The secrecy surrounding ALEC's model bills and operations make it difficult to track their influence In North Carolina. In 2011, legal advocates saw ALEC's fingerprints on a bill that would have given pharmaceutical companies immunity from liability for the adverse effects of drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration -- a measure taken "word for word" from ALEC, according to one observer.*
ALEC also coordinates with the network of conservative North Carolina groups backed by Art Pope. Daren Bakst, director of legal and regulatory stories at the John Locke Foundation, isalso chair of ALEC's energy and natural resources subcommittee. Together, the Locke Foundation and ALEC have hosted forums that deny the scientific consensus about climate change and oppose clean energy standards.
ALEC clearly sees North Carolina as increasingly important to its operations. On May 11, just days after the state primary elections, ALEC will be hosting a national meeting of its Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force in Charlotte.
A call to Sen. Vaughan's office for comment was not immediately returned.
UPDATE:In February 2011, Sen. Vaughan was one of six senate Democrats who voted to pass a "Castle Doctrine" bill, which loosened rules on the use of deadly force against potential robbers and assailants of a person's home. ALEC's leadership in pushing such bills nationally was a key reason that companies have withdrawn their support from ALEC.
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William Payne is a member of the New Mexico State Senate who currently is the Republican Whip in the State Senate. Payne is a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC, serving as New Mexico state leader.[1]
Payne holds a JD from the University of New Mexico and an MA from Georgetown University. He previously was in the United States Navy where he rose to the rank of Rear Admiral.
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Jason Alexander Isaac (born December 25, 1971)[1] is a transportation consultant from Dripping Springs, Texas, who is a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives. Since 2013, he has represented District 45 in Hays and Blanco counties in suburban Austin. In his first term from 2011 to 2013, the district also includedCaldwell County.[2][3]
Unopposed in his party primary on March 4, 2014, Isaac is seeking a third term in the general election scheduled for November 4.
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A fourth-generation Texan born in Houston,[4] Isaac was because of his father's career largely reared in Virginia, where he graduated from high school. He returned to Texas to attend Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, from which he graduated in 1996 with a major in Marketing and a minor in Management.[5] At Stephen F. Austin University, Isaac took the lead to establish lacrosse as a team sport. He is the president of the Central Texas Chapter of U.S. Lacrosse and a board member on the Dripping Springs Youth Sports Association.[3]
Much of Isaac's work as a transportation consultant has been toward the enhancement of the efficiency, profitability, and safety record of the trucking industry.[3]
Representative Isaac was reared in the United Methodist Church[5] but with his wife, the former Carrie Lynn Crain (born 1970),[6] is a member of Westover Hills Church of Christ in Austin.[1]
Isaac and Carrie met in college and married two years after her graduation.[5] She is a native of Humble near Houston, where her husband was born, and a 1988 graduate of Humble High School.[7] Her parents are Eddie Ray Crain and the former Connie Marie Thomas (both born c. 1945) of Bullard, south of Tyler, Texas.[8] The Isaacs have two sons, Aidan Isaac (born 2003) and Landon Isaac (born 2005), who attend public schools in Dripping Springs.[9]
On January 6, 1990, at the age of nineteen in Harris County, Carrie Crain married her Humble High School classmate, David Kersh.[10] He subsequently became a Country music star, having produced two hit albums for Mike Curb Records: Goodnight Sweetheart and If I Never Stop Loving You prior to his leaving the music business in 2005.[11] On May 20, 2009, years after his divorce from Carrie Crain, Kersh married singer Kerry Harvick in Comanche, Texas,[12] where the couple still resides.[13]
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In the 2010 general election, Isaac unseated the young four-term Democratic incumbent representative, Patrick Rose of Dripping Springs, 27,715 votes (53.9 percent) to Rose's 23,691 (46.1 percent).[14] In May 2010, Speaker Joe Straus, a Moderate Republican from San Antonio, headlined a fundraiser for Rose in the race against Isaac, who had been the underdog in the race. Many of Isaac's Republican constituents, including Hays County party chairman Bud Wymore, urged him to vote against Straus's successful bid for a second term as Speaker. Isaac instead did not vote in the Speaker's race, one of only two of the 150 House members to abstain. Isaac said that he believes Straus is sufficiently "conservative" to lead the House Republicans.[9]
In 2012, Isaac won his second House term by about the same margin as he did in deposing Rose. He defeated another Democrat, this time with the same name as the second U.S. President, John Adams, 33,604 (53.6 percent) to 26,557 (42.4 percent). The remaining 2,495 votes (4 percent) went to the Libertarian Party nominee, Jim Duke.[15] John Adams is a trustee of the Dripping Springs Independent School District and opposed Isaac's position on educational funding and "women' s health" issues, including Isaac's co-sponsorship of the sonogram requirement before a woman can procure an abortion in Texas.[16]
Isaac is vice chairman of the House Rules and Resolutions Committee and a member of two other committees: (1) Environmental Regulation and (2) Economic and Small Business Development. He is also a member of the Subcommittee on Manufacturing. He founded the Hill Country Caucus in the Texas House.[1]
Known for his conservative political stands, Isaac was named "Courageous Conservative" in both 2011 and 2013 by the Texas Conservative Coalition.[1] Isaac maintains the viewpoint that lower taxes and limited government work to increase individual freedom.[17]
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A pro-life legislator, Isaac in 2013 supported the ban on abortion after twenty weeks of gestation; the measure passed the House, 96-49. He co-sponsored companion legislation to increase medical and licensing requirements of abortion providers,[18] a move which opponents said could lead to closure of many such clinics. These issues brought forth an unsuccessful filibuster in the Texas State Senate by Wendy R. Davis ofFort Worth, who in 2014 is the Democratic nominee for governor against the Republican Greg Abbott.[19] In 2011, Isaac supported two other anti-abortion measures. One forbids state funding of agencies which perform abortions. The sonogram legislation is based on the view that a woman could change her mind about an abortion once she witnesses the development of the unborn child.[18]
Isaac voted to establish a taxpayer-funded breakfast program for public schools; the measure cleared the House, 73-58. He co-sponsored legislation to provide marshals for school security as a separate law-enforcement entity. He supported the successful bill to extend the franchise tax exemption to certain businesses. Isaac voted against the adoption of the biennial state budgets in 2013 but for the 2011 budget. He voted to require testing for narcotics of those individuals receiving unemployment compensation.
Isaac supported the measure to forbid the state from engaging in the enforcement of federal regulations of firearms. He co-sponsored a similar measure to allow college and university officials to carry concealed weapons in the name of campus security. He voted to reduce the time required to obtain a concealed-carry permit. He backed the redistricting bills for the state House and Senate and the United States House of Representatives.[18]
In 2011, Isaac voted to levy a sales tax on Internet transactions in order to match existing sales tax laws for brick and mortar stores. The measure passed the House 125-20. He supported picture identification of voters casting a ballot;[18] the measure finally took effect in October 2013 and was used widely without incident in the primaries on March 4, 2014.[20]
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The Texas Conservative Coalition named him a "Courageous Conservative" following both the 2011 and 2013 legislative sessions. Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum, managed in Texas by Cathie Adams, a former state chairman of the Texas Republican Party, rated Isaac 86 percent favorable in 2013. The Young Conservatives of Texas gave him a cumulative score in 2013 of 73 percent. The Texas League of Conservation Voters rated him 64 percent; the Sierra Club, 53 percent in 2011.[21] The interest group, Texans for Fiscal Responsibility, founded by Michael Quinn Sullivan, rated Isaac 100 percent in 2011 and honored him that year with its "Taxpayer Champion" award.[1] In 2013, Texans for Fiscal Responsibility rated him 89 percent. The Texas Association of Business gave him an 86 percent cumulative score in 2013, naming him a "Fighter for Free Enterprise." The National Rifle Association scored Isaac 100 percent in 2012.[21]
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Kim Koppelman is a state legislator serving in the North Dakota House of Representatives. He was elected in 1994, and subsequently re-elected in 1996, 1998, 2002 and 2006 (North Dakota House member terms changed from two to four years in 1998). Koppelman served as the national chair of the Council of State Governments in 2008. He is also the President/CEO of Koppelman & Associates, LLC, an award-winning advertising, marketing and public relations agency.
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Kim Koppelman was born on 16 October 1956 in Breckenridge, Minnesota.[1]
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Kim Koppelman has received his education from the following institution:
- BS, North Dakota State College of Science, 1976[1]
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- Koppelman has had the following professional experience:
- President/CEO, Koppelman and Associates, 1984–present
- Director of Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations, C.R. Limited, 1982-1984
- Editor, 1980-1981
- Director of Instrumental Music, North Sargent Public Schools, 1975
- Account Executive
- Chief Executive Officer, Covenant Builders[1]
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Koppelman has had the following political experience:
- Candidate, United States House of Representatives, 2012
- Representative, North Dakota State House, 1994–present
- Riverside City Council, 1984-1988
- Emergency Management Coordinator, City Council, 1986-1988
- Representative, Metropolitan Council of Governments, 1986-1988
- Member, Committee on Suggested State Legislature[1]
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Michael Hough (born November 4, 1979) serves in the Maryland House of Delegates representing District 3B, which covers portions of Frederick and Washington Counties. He was the former chairman and served on the Frederick County Republican Central Committee.[1] Hough is also the former president of the Maryland Republican Assembly.[2] He is a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC, serving as Maryland state leader.[3]
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Hough received a Bachelors Degree in Political Science from Towson University.[4]
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Hough served in the United States Air Force as a Minuteman III Missile technician; he was stationed at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Michael previously served as the legislative aide to Maryland State Senator Alex X. Mooney. He was also the campaign manager for Sen. Mooney's successful re-election campaign.[5] In 2006, Hough ran for and won a position on the Frederick County Republican Central Committee.[6] In March 2008, Hough filed to necessary paperwork to run for the Maryland House of Delegates representing District 3B.
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The R Street Institute (R Street) is a non-profit American think tank founded on June 1, 2012 in Washington, D.C. by former employees of the Heartland Institute’s Center on Finance, Insurance and Real Estate. [1] In addition to its Washington headquarters, R Street has branch offices in Tallahassee, Florida; Austin, Texas; and Columbus, Ohio.The institute’s mission statement pledges support for “free markets; limited, effective government; and responsible environmental stewardship.” [2]
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Formation and split from Heartland[edit]
On May 4, 2012, the Heartland Institute launched a digital billboard ad campaign in the Chicago area featuring a photo of Ted Kaczynski, (the "Unabomber" whose mail bombs killed three people and injured 23 others), and asking the question, “I still believe in global warming, do you?”[3] The institute planned for the campaign to later feature cult leader Charles Manson, communist leader Fidel Castro and perhaps Osama bin Laden, asking the same question. In a statement, the institute justified the billboards saying "the most prominent advocates of global warming aren’t scientists. They are murderers, tyrants, and madmen."[4] Facing public backlash to the billboards, Heartland canceled the campaign within 24 hours.
Leadership of Heartland’s Washington-based Center on Finance, Insurance and Real Estate,whose work often had been entwined with environmental policies, were quoted in the wake of the billboard campaign noting that they only learned of the campaign from an emailed press release and that it reflected badly on the center. [5] On May 11, 2012, Heartland announced that the center would spin off into a separate organization, effective May 31. [6]
On May 14, 2012, Slate reported that the spin-off group would be dubbed te R Street Institute and quoted spokesman R.J. Lehmann as noting that, unlike Heartland, R Street “will not promote climate change skepticism.” [7] Following R Street’s break from Heartland, climate activist group Forecast the Facts estimated that roughly $1.3 million of Heartland’s proposed $2.3 million in projected corporate funding had been withdrawn from the institute, as donors Pfizer,Amgen, LKQ, Credit Union National Association, GlaxoSmithKline, Bayer, Verizon, the Wisconsin Insurance Alliance, BB&T, PepsiCo, Farmers Insurance Group, Eli Lilly, USAA, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co., ReinaissanceRe, XL Group, Allied World Assurance Co., State Farm, Diageo, ABIR and General Motors all either pulled their sponsorships or announced that they would not support Heartland in the future. [8]
Name[edit]
The institute describes the rationale[9] behind its name as:
Driving northwest from the center of the city, R Street is the first largely residential street to intersect with one of Washington, D.C.’s major arteries—Connecticut Ave. R Street divides lobbyists’ glass office buildings and politicians’ neo-classical palaces from neighborhoods where people live, work, fall in love, have children, pursue happiness and seek out practical solutions to their own problems. And that’s where the R Street Institute wants to be: at the intersection of public policy thought and real life.
Policy areas[edit]
R Street cites its major areas of operation as domestic policy challenges involving regulation, public health, environmental policy, entitlement reform and the United States federal budget. The institute is well-known within the insurance community for its work on catastrophe insurance issues, including through its role as a leading member of the SmarterSafer.org coalition, a “diverse chorus of voices united in favor of environmentally responsible, fiscally sound approaches to natural catastrophe policy that promote public safety.” [10] In addition to R Street, SmarterSafer includes environmental organizations like American Rivers and the National Wildlife Federation, taxpayer groups likeTaxpayers for Common Sense and the National Taxpayers Union, and insurance companies Allianz, Chubb Corp., Liberty Mutual, USAA and Swiss Re.
The institute’s flagship publication, initiated while still a part of Heartland, is an annual Insurance Regulation Report Card, a state-by-state study of the U.S. insurance regulatory system, examining which states are doing the best job of regulating insurance through limited, effective and efficient government. The 2012 report card measured states on 14 objective variables, including the concentration of home and auto insurance markets and relative size of residual markets; the effectiveness of state solvency and fraud regulation; the transparency and politicization of insurance regulation; the tax and fee burden placed on insurance markets and the proportion of fees used to support insurance regulation; and the relative freedom granted to insurers to set risk-based rates, including through the use of credit and territorial information. Vermont was judged to have the best environment for insurance regulation, while Florida, the lone state to earn an F grade, was judged to have the worst. [11]
The institute also has worked on environmental projects, including co-sponsoring the annual Green Scissors report with Friends of the Earth and Taxpayers for Common Sense. The 2012 report recommended nearly $700 billion in cuts to wasteful and environmentally harmful federal spending. [12] The institute also has published papers advocating linking the federal crop insurance program to conservation compliance standards [13] and withholding state insurance subsidies in coastal regions of Florida. [14]
In addition to its insurance and environmental work, R Street has published research on member business lending by credit unions, tobacco harm reduction and tax reform.
R Street staff[edit]
R Street’s founding staff were all former employees for the Heartland Institute’s Center on Finance, Insurance and Real Estate, who resigned en masse following Heartland’s Unabomber billboard campaign. They included President Eli Lehrer, Public Affairs Director R.J. Lehmann, Florida Director Christian Cámara, Texas Director Julie Drenner, Midwest Director Alan Smith and Senior Fellow Don Brown. That group has since been joined by Outreach Director Andrew Moylan, Operations Director Erica Schoder, Digital Marketing Director Zach Graves, Outreach Manager Lori Sanders and Senior Fellows Reihan Salam and Joel Nitzkin. [15]
Scholars and affiliates[edit]
R Street also maintains a network of fellows associated with the institute. These include David Frum of The Daily Beast, former Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist, Peter Cramton of the University of Maryland, David Marlett of Appalachian State University, Lars Powell of the University of Arkansas-Little Rock, Brad Rodu of the University of Louisville, former Washington, D.C. Insurance Commissioner Lawrence Mirel, former South Carolina Insurance Commissioner Scott Richardson, and Marni Soupcoff of the Huffington Post. [16]
A legislative advisory board, made up of state legislators from around the country, helps to advise R Street leadership on state-level legislative issues. Its members include Sen. Joel Anderson (R-CA); Sen. Kevin_Bacon (R-OH); Sen.Alan Hays (R-FL); Del. Michael_Hough_(politician) (R-MD); Rep. Jason Isaac (R-TX); Senate Minority Leader William Payne (R-NM); Rep. Kim Koppelman (R-ND); and Rep. Don Vaughan (D-NC).
Governance[edit]
R Street is overseen by an independent board that sets the organization’s major policies and exercises fiduciary oversight. The president of R Street serves as ex officio chairman of the board. Current members of the board are:
Eli Lehrer, R Street, Chairman (Ex officio)
:{David Frum:(style="background-color:#fff200"):}:, Daily Beast, Vice Chairman
Ryan Alexander, Taxpayers for Common Sense
Bob Bennett (politician), former U.S. Senator
Michael Cohen, Renaissance Reinsurance
:{Bob Inglis:(style="background-color:#fff200"):}:, Energy and Enterprise Initiative
Jeff Judson, Judson Associates
Steve McManus, State Farm
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- Non-profit organizations based in Washington, D.C.
- Political advocacy groups in the United States
- Political and economic think tanks in the United States
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R Street Institute (R Street) is a non-profit American think tank founded on June 1, 2012 in Washington, D.C. by former employees of the Heartland Institute’s Center on Finance, Insurance and Real Estate.[1] In addition to its Washington headquarters, R Street has branch offices in Tallahassee, Florida; Austin, Texas; andColumbus, Ohio. The institute’s mission statement pledges support for “free markets; limited, effective government; and responsible environmental stewardship.”[2]
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- 1 Formation and split from Heartland
- 2 Name
- 3 Policy areas
- 4 R Street staff
- 5 References
- 6 External links
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On May 4, 2012, the Heartland Institute launched a digital billboard ad campaign in the Chicago area featuring a photo of Ted Kaczynski, (the "Unabomber" whose mail bombs killed three people and injured 23 others), and asking the question, “I still believe in global warming, do you?”[3] The institute planned for the campaign to later feature cult leader Charles Manson, communist leader Fidel Castro and perhaps Osama bin Laden, asking the same question. In a statement, the institute justified the billboards saying "the most prominent advocates of global warming aren’t scientists. They are murderers, tyrants, and madmen."[4] Facing public backlash to the billboards, Heartland canceled the campaign within 24 hours.
Leadership of Heartland’s Washington-based Center on Finance, Insurance and Real Estate, whose work often had been entwined with environmental policies, were quoted in the wake of the billboard campaign noting that they only learned of the campaign from an emailed press release and that it reflected badly on the center.[5] On May 11, 2012, Heartland announced that the center would spin off into a separate organization, effective May 31.[6]
On May 14, 2012, Slate reported that the spin-off group would be dubbed the R Street Institute and quoted spokesman R.J. Lehmann as noting that, unlike Heartland, R Street “will not promote climate change skepticism.”[7] Following R Street’s break from Heartland, climate activist group Forecast the Facts estimated that roughly $1.3 million of Heartland’s proposed $2.3 million in projected corporate funding had been withdrawn from the institute, as donors Pfizer, Amgen, LKQ, Credit Union National Association, GlaxoSmithKline, Bayer, Verizon, the Wisconsin Insurance Alliance, BB&T, PepsiCo, Farmers Insurance Group, Eli Lilly,USAA, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co., RenaissanceRe, XL Group, Allied World Assurance Co., State Farm, Diageo, ABIR and General Motors all either pulled their sponsorships or announced that they would not support Heartland in the future.[8]
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The institute describes the rationale[9] behind its name as:
Driving northwest from the center of the city, R Street is the first largely residential street to intersect with one of Washington, D.C.’s major arteries—Connecticut Ave. R Street divides lobbyists’ glass office buildings and politicians’ neo-classical palaces from neighborhoods where people live, work, fall in love, have children, pursue happiness and seek out practical solutions to their own problems. And that’s where the R Street Institute wants to be: at the intersection of public policy thought and real life.
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R Street cites its major areas of operation as domestic policy challenges involving regulation, public health, environmental policy, entitlement reform and the United States federal budget. The institute is well-known within the insurance community for its work on catastrophe insurance issues, including through its role as a leading member of the SmarterSafer.org coalition, a “diverse chorus of voices united in favor of environmentally responsible, fiscally sound approaches to natural catastrophe policy that promote public safety.”[10] In addition to R Street, SmarterSafer includes environmental organizations like American Rivers and the National Wildlife Federation, taxpayer groups like Taxpayers for Common Sense and the National Taxpayers Union, and insurance companies Allianz, Chubb Corp., Liberty Mutual, USAA and Swiss Re.
The institute’s flagship publication, initiated while still a part of Heartland, is an annual Insurance Regulation Report Card, a state-by-state study of the U.S. insurance regulatory system, examining which states are doing the best job of regulating insurance through limited, effective and efficient government. The 2012 report card measured states on 14 objective variables, including the concentration of home and auto insurance markets and relative size of residual markets; the effectiveness of state solvency and fraud regulation; the transparency and politicization of insurance regulation; the tax and fee burden placed on insurance markets and the proportion of fees used to support insurance regulation; and the relative freedom granted to insurers to set risk-based rates, including through the use of credit and territorial information. Vermont was judged to have the best environment for insurance regulation, while Florida, the lone state to earn an F grade, was judged to have the worst.[11]
The institute also has worked on environmental projects, including co-sponsoring the annual Green Scissors report with Friends of the Earth and Taxpayers for Common Sense. The 2012 report recommended nearly $700 billion in cuts to wasteful and environmentally harmful federal spending.[12] The institute also has published papers advocating linking the federal crop insurance program to conservation compliance standards[13] and withholding state insurance subsidies in coastal regions of Florida.[14]
In addition to its insurance and environmental work, R Street has published research on member business lending by credit unions, tobacco harm reduction and tax reform.
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R Street’s founding staff were all former employees for the Heartland Institute’s Center on Finance, Insurance and Real Estate, who resigned en masse following Heartland’s Unabomber billboard campaign. They included President Eli Lehrer, Public Affairs Director R.J. Lehmann, Florida Director Christian Cámara, Texas Director Julie Drenner, Midwest Director Alan Smith and Senior Fellow Don Brown. That group has since been joined by Outreach Director Andrew Moylan, Operations Director Erica Schoder, Digital Marketing Director Zach Graves, Outreach Manager Lori Sanders and Senior Fellows Reihan Salam and Joel Nitzkin.[15]
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R Street also maintains a network of fellows associated with the institute. These include David Frum of The Daily Beast, former Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist, Peter Cramton of the University of Maryland, David Marlett of Appalachian State University, Lars Powell of the University of Arkansas-Little Rock, Brad Rodu of the University of Louisville, former Washington, D.C. Insurance Commissioner Lawrence Mirel, former South Carolina Insurance Commissioner Scott Richardson, and Marni Soupcoff of the Huffington Post.[16]
A legislative advisory board, made up of state legislators from around the country, helps to advise R Street leadership on state-level legislative issues. Its members include Sen. Joel Anderson (R-CA); Sen. Kevin_Bacon (R-OH); Sen. Alan Hays (R-FL); Del. Michael_Hough_(politician) (R-MD); Rep. Jason Isaac (R-TX); Senate Minority Leader William Payne (R-NM); Rep. Kim Koppelman (R-ND); and Rep. Don Vaughan (D-NC).
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R Street is overseen by an independent board that sets the organization’s major policies and exercises fiduciary oversight. The president of R Street serves as ex officio chairman of the board. Current members of the board are:
- Eli Lehrer, R Street, Chairman (Ex officio)
- David Frum, Daily Beast, Vice Chairman
- Ryan Alexander, Taxpayers for Common Sense
- Bob Bennett (politician), former U.S. Senator
- Michael Cohen, Renaissance Reinsurance
- Bob Inglis, Energy and Enterprise Initiative
- Jeff Judson, Judson Associates
- Steve McManus, State Farm
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Organizations
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES)
Natural Resources Defense Council
Consumer and Taxpayer Advocates
Taxpayers for Common Sense http://www.taxpayer.net/
Insurer Interests
Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers
National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC)
National Flood Determination Association
Reinsurance Association of America
Mitigation Interests
Natural Hazard Mitigation Association
National Fire Protection Association
Housing
National Leased Housing Association
ALLIED ORGANIZATIONS
Association of State Floodplain Managers
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Dixon Alan Hays is a Republican member of the Florida State Senate from the 11th District, which stretches from Ocala to Clermont and includes Lake County, centralMarion County, northern Orange County, and northeastern Sumter County, since 2012, previously representing the 20th District from 2010 to 2012. Before winning election to the Florida Senate, Hays served as a member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 25th District from 2004 to 2010.
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Hays was born in Henderson, Kentucky and moved to Florida in 1950. He attended Connors State College, located in Warner, Oklahoma, where he received hisBachelor's degree in 1967. After that, he joined the United States Coast Guard, where he served as a dental technician from 1967 to 1970. Hays later attended theUniversity of Florida College of Dentistry, from which he graduated in 1976. He settled in Umatilla, Florida, and served on the Lake-Sumter State College Board of Trustees for six years.
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In 2004, when incumbent State Representative Carey Baker declined to seek re-election so that he could instead run for the Florida Senate, Hays ran to succeed him in the 25th District, which stretched from Howey-in-the-Hills to Debary and included parts of eastern Lake County, northwestern Seminole County, and southern Volusia County. He faced Larry Metz, Johnny Smith, Randy Wiseman, and JoAnn Huggins in the Republican primary. Hays narrowly emerged victorious over his opponents, receiving 35% of hte vote to Metz's 29%, and advanced to the general election, where he was elected overwhelmingly over only write-in opposition. He was re-elected without opposition in 2006 and 2008. During a 2010 debate over legislation that required a woman to undergo an ultrasound before receiving an abortion, Hays controversially compared abortion to the Holocaust before he was cut off by then-Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Larry Cretul, which prompted a Jewish member of the House to object.[1]
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When Carey Baker, whom Hays had succeeded in the House in 2004, decided not to run for re-election to his seat in the Florida Senate, Hays ran to fill the open seat in the 20th District, which included Lake County, southern Marion County, northwestern Seminole County, northern Sumter County, and western Volusia County. He won the Republican primary unopposed and in the general election, faced Eunice Garbutt, the Democratic nominee, whom he defeated in a landslide with 67% of the vote.
In 2012, the state's legislative districts were redrawn, and Hays was moved into the 11th District, where he opted to seek re-election and which contained most of the territory that he had previously represented. He was opposed by independent candidate John Iler, and campaigned on making Florida "a business-friendly state" by cutting regulations, improving education, speeding up the process for permits to be granted, keeping taxes low, and creating an internet sales tax.[2] Once again, Hays was re-elected comfortably, receiving 72% of the vote to Iler's 28%.
During the 2013 legislative session, Hays sponsored legislation that would have banned public buses from stopping on streets after an incident in which he was driving behind a bus that pulled off on the side of the road to load and unload passengers, and he was unable to pull around it, which an Orlando Sentinel columnist called "absurd."[3] In 2014, Hays wrote legislation that was signed into law by Governor Rick Scott that "gives county school districts final responsibility for selecting instructional materials," allowing parents to protest textbooks at public hearings on the basis that some books "unfairly presented foreign cultures and doctrines...in public schools."[4]
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