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note nra; defunct after trayvon martin stand yer gnd

ridenour ncppr picked up voter ID

https://inthesetimes.com/ittlist/entry/13069/alec_to_drop_non-economic_task_force

The American Legislative Exchange Council, the now-infamous organization that advances "model legislation" through a network of conservative legislators, :{announced on Tuesday:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;transition:all 0.2s ease 0s"):}: that it would be disbanding the "Public Safety and Elections" taskforce responsible for pushing "Stand Your Grand" and Voter ID laws.

In a press release on its website, the organization said that it was dismantling the task force in order to sharpen its focus on the economy:

We are eliminating the ALEC Public Safety and Elections task force that dealt with non-economic issues, and reinvesting these resources in the task forces that focus on the economy. The remaining budgetary and economic issues will be reassigned.

But ALEC's decision is clearly an attempt to stem the tide of public scrutiny that has resulted in a mass departure of its corporate sponsors over the past week and a half. As public anger grew over the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin and the failure to arrest his killer, national attention turned to the role of ALEC and the NRA in pushing the law that had protected Zimmerman. Due in part to their interventions, :{25 other states:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;transition:all 0.2s ease 0s"):}: now have similar laws. Eleven corporate sponsors, including Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Kraft,have now decided to pull out of ALEC. In an interview with Democracy Now, Lisa Graves of the Center for Media and Democracy said of the move by ALEC:

It shows the potency of the tremendous grassroots outpouring of objection to ALEC’s agenda and ALEC’s procedures, where corporate lobbyists and politicians actually vote behind closed doors on these proposed model legislation without the press or public present on this extreme agenda.

ALEC is comprised of 10 task forces that produce "model legislation," which is then introduced and sponsored by ALEC member lawmakers in their home states—despite the fact that federal tax law forbids 501(c)(3) organizations such as ALEC from participating in the formation of legislation.

Following a report by Beau Hodai for *In These Times*detailing how ALEC, on behalf of the private prison industry, helped shape Arizona's anti-immigrant law, the "ALEC Exposed"project cast light on more than 800 pieces of "model legislation" advanced by ALEC. (For all of Hodai's ALEC coverage, go here.)

Buoyed by the national attention to Martin's death, public outcry about the organization has taken to social media through the Twitter hashtags  #:{ALECexposed:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;transition:all 0.2s ease 0s"):}: and #:{dumpALEC:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;transition:all 0.2s ease 0s"):}:. There's even a :{Pinterest board:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;transition:all 0.2s ease 0s"):}: devoted to anti-ALEC comments that have been deleted from ALEC's Facebook page. The negative response around the web has gotten so heated that ALEC is trying to rally their own troops through a Heritage Foundation :{Blogger's Briefing:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;transition:all 0.2s ease 0s"):}:, where yesterday, Caitlyn Korb, ALEC director of external relations appealed to bloggers to get the word out about what ALEC "really does." As :{PR Watch:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;transition:all 0.2s ease 0s"):}::{ :(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;transition:all 0.2s ease 0s"):}:reports, Korb said:

We're getting absolutely killed in social media venues—Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest (I didn't even know Pinterest was a forum for a lot of political opposition, but now it is)—so any and all new media support you guys can provide would be so helpful, not just to us but to average people who don't know much about this fight but are seeing us get really heavily attacked with very little opposition.

Graves and other anti-ALEC campaigners are skeptical that the closure of one task force will significantly change the organization's shadowy practices.

ColorOfChange executive director Rashad Robinson, whose group has been fighting against the racially discriminatory voter ID legislation pushed by ALEC, told the *New Republic*:

ALEC's latest statement is nothing more than a PR stunt aimed at diverting attention from its agenda, which has done serious damage to our communities. To simply say they are stopping non-economic work does not provide justice to the millions of Americas whose lives are impacted by these dangerous and discriminatory laws courtesy of ALEC and its corporate backers.

As Nancy Scola writes in The Atlantic, the announcement is "both a big deal—and not." The task forces that still make up ALEC continue to push legislation like a law in Tennessee that encourages the teaching of alternate hypotheses to climate change and evolution, and the ALEC model bill known as the "Public Employee Freedom Act," which has been used to attack collective bargaining rights in Ohio, Arizona and Wisconsin.

Blue Cross Blue Shield's :{Tuesday announcement:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;transition:all 0.2s ease 0s"):}: that it too will sever ties with ALEC brings the total number of disbanded corporate sponsors up to 11. Grassroots organizations aren't stopping there, and are continuing to talk to companies, whose dues provide about:{ :(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;transition:all 0.2s ease 0s"):}::{98 percent of ALEC's $7 million:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;transition:all 0.2s ease 0s"):}: annual budget.

Update:The conservative National Center for Public Policy Research announced on Wednesday that it will take the reins of ALEC's "voter integrity" programs, demonstrating beyond doubt that the forces behind the voter suppression agenda are still at work.

In apress release, Amy Ridenour, chairman of NCPPR, criticized efforts to erode support for ALEC--Yum Brands has now become the twelfth sponsor to sever ties. The NCPPR has even set up an email address, wearenotyellow@nationalcenter.org, for any corporations that withdrew sponsorship "to disavow the claims ... that they helped pressure a conservative/free-market group to stop working for ballot integrity." Ridenour also put out a warning and call to action:

Conservatives will kick up our support for voter integrity programs. We're putting the left on notice: you take out a conservative program operating in one area, we'll kick it up a notch somewhere else. You will not win. We outnumber you and we outthink you, and when you kick up a fuss you inspire us to victory.

Though little known to the public, the group has had a few legal blunders in the past. More than 10 years ago, NCPPR came under fire for sending senior citizens "fright mail" to help raise money for right-wing politicians and groups. The *San Francisco Chronicle* highlighted one such story of 86-year old Faye Shelby, who recieved 700 mailings in a four-month period warning of the impending collapse of Social Security and Medicare, marked with messages like "Urgent" or "Personal." Such mailings have drained the bank accounts of senior citizens, syphoning the funds into right-wing groups like NCPPR. Ridenour was unapologetic, saying that it was a necessary tactic to keep up with other organizations requesting donations.  More recently, NCPPR was entangled financially with Jack Abramoff, the former superlobbyist and now-convicted felon.

The NCPPR press release ended on an increasingly strange and unsettling note, threatening those who are fighting against the efforts of ALEC and now NCPPR:

We are, however, inspired by a particular passage in the 1987 movie The Untouchables: "They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way." Indeed.

LINDSEY KRATOCHWILL

Lindsey Kratochwill, an In These Times editorial intern, is student at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

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alec disband task force (which and why?) stand your ground

VOTER FRAUD

Conservative Group With Abramoff Scandal Ties Picks Up Voter ID Issue Where ALEC Left Off

April 20, 2012kstreet607

One has to wonder, why the GOP think that they will truly suppress tens of thousands of voters without a valid ID from casting their ballots on election day.  If their strategy was to make sure those tens of thousands don’t vote, activists and civil rights advocates are making an effort to help voters with the process of obtaining an ID before election day.

In the meantime, some of us sit and watch this attack on democracy try to take hold, but I am certain those leading the effort to retain our democratic principles will eventually rule the day.  I intend to do my part

Shortly after the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) announced it was dropping voter identification laws from its agenda, another conservative group is stepping in to fill the void.

The National Center for Public Policy Research announced this week it had formed a “Voter Identification Task Force” to continue ALEC’s “excellent work” in “promoting measures to enhance integrity in voting.” Describing itself as a “conservative, free-market, non-profit think-tank,” the group was established in 1982.

“The fact that ALEC is no longer going to be offering the services it did got us interested in doing something,” National Center for Public Policy Research executive directorDavid Almasi told TPM. “We obviously can’t do everything ALEC did, but we can do something to make sure the issue doesn’t go away.”

“This is something that we picked up because someone else dropped it and not because anyone has come to us and said here’s a check, do it. It’s something that we feel strongly enough about that we’re willing to do it off our regular strategic plan,” Almasi said.

“We’re putting the left on notice: you take out a conservative program operating in one area, we’ll kick it up a notch somewhere else,” Amy Ridenour, chairman of the National Center for Public Policy Research, said in a statement. “You will not win. We outnumber you and we outthink you, and when you kick up a fuss you inspire us to victory.”

Corporate CEOs who “cower in the face of liberal boycott threats need to understand that the left never gives up,” Ridenour said. “If these corporations do not reverse course and immediately grow enough of a backbone to say no when the left tells them what to do, conservatives may as well consider them part of the organized left. It doesn’t matter if corporate executives have free-market sentiments hidden deep inside them if they continually surrender to theleft’s Trotskyite strategy of making relentless demand after demand in public.”

While several conservative organizations have taken up the issue of voter identification, no national group that considered voter ID their central issue has existed since the American Center for Voting Rights disappeared back in 2007. More recently, the Tea Party group True the Vote has held a national conference to address the issue and James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas has produced a number of “undercover” videos in an attempt to show why they believe voter ID laws are necessary.

The NCPPR got a bit tangled up in the Jack Abramoff scandal a few years back. The Center for Media and Democracy points out that a Senate investigation found that Ridenour directed money received by the NCPPR at Abramoff’s direction. The group reportedly covered the cost of several of former Rep. Tom Delay’s overseas junkets. Nobody from the group faced charges.

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Public Safety and Elections Task Force

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ALEC is not a lobby; it is not a front group. It is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, behind closed doors, corporations hand state legislators the changes to the law they desire that directly benefit their bottom line. Along with legislators, corporations have membership in ALEC. Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to approve “model” bills. They have their own corporate governing board which meets jointly with the legislative board. (ALEC says that corporations do not vote on the board.) They fund almost all of ALEC's operations. Participating legislators, overwhelmingly conservative Republicans, then bring those proposals home and introduce them in statehouses across the land as their own brilliant ideas and important public policy innovations—without disclosing that corporations crafted and voted on the bills. ALEC boasts that it has over 1,000 of these bills introduced by legislative members every year, with one in every five of them enacted into law. ALEC describes itself as a “unique,” “unparalleled” and “unmatched” organization. It might be right. It is as if a state legislature had been reconstituted, yet corporations had pushed the people out the door. Learn more at ALECexposed.org.

For model legislation crafted and adopted by the Public Safety and Elections Task Force, go here and here.

The Public Safety and Elections Task Force of the American Legislative Exchange Council was previously known as the "Criminal Justice & Homeland Security Task Force."[1]

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2011 ALEC Annual Meeting Substantive Agenda

According to the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting Program, their agenda included the following: "the introduction of policy on the justification of state criminal offenses, the legal possession and purchase of firearms, legislative transparency, and appropriate disclosure requirements on political contributions. In addition, ALEC passed policy on civil asset forfeiture in 2000, and will consider a motion to repeal and replace the current version. The Task Force will also host a debate: 'The Presidential Electoral College v. The National Popular Vote.' ALEC currently has two model resolutions in opposition to the National Popular Vote. The Task Force will also discuss automated enforcement policy."[2]

The following new model legislation was introduced:

2011 ALEC Spring Task Force Summit

According to the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting Public Safety and Elections Task Force meeting agenda, which includes minutes of the April 29, 2011, Spring Task Force Summit, the Spring summit meeting heard the reports of the following subcommittees:

The Spring summit meeting also considered the following model legislation:

Subcommittees

Co-Chairs

Stop Child Predators is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., dedicated to establishing penalty enhancements for those found guilty of committing sexual offenses against children; implementing an effective and efficient nationwide sex offender registry; and protecting the rights of crime victims.[17] Rumenap, the President of the organization, previously "served as the Deputy Director for the American Conservative Union (ACU), the nation's oldest and largest conservative grassroots issue-advocacy organization, where she directed the ACU's annual Conservative Political Action Conference and served as one of the group's principle lobbyists. Rumenap has also served as the Executive Director for both U.S. Term Limits and the National Center for Growth. Rumenap currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the America's Future Foundation and the Safe Internet Alliance. She is a former board member of the Initiative and Referendum Institute and the Georgia State Society."[18]

Corporate Executive Committee

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"Dennis Bartlett is the Executive Director of the American Bail Coalition. His career has included working for the Central Intelligence Agency and serving as deputy chief of INTERPOL Washington. . . He has been a member of ALEC since 1998 . . ." He has Masters degrees in International Relations from the University of Southern California and in philosophy from the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, California, as well as a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of San Francisco. He served as a Naval Reserve Intelligence Officer in the late 1960s.[20]

"David Christman serves as the Director of State & Industry Affairs for the National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) . . . In his current role at NBWA he serves as the association's primary liaison to national state legislative organizations. David also works with state beer associations and industry allies on pressing legal and legislative issues facing the beer industry in the states. . . . Previously, David served as the Manager of Grassroots and Political Affairs at NBWA. He was responsible for the day-to-day management of the National Beer Wholesalers Association Political Action Committee (NBWA PAC). . . Prior to joining the NBWA staff David worked on Capitol Hill for Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum."[21]

"Pat Nolan is the Vice President of Prison Fellowship, and leads Justice Fellowship, the criminal justice reform arm of Chuck Colson's Prison Fellowship Ministries. . . .. He served for 15 years in the California State Assembly, four of those as the Assembly Republican Leader . . . Pat was one of the original sponsors of the Victims' Bill of Rights (Proposition 15) and was awarded the 'Victims Advocate Award' by Parents of Murdered Children. . . . Pat was targeted for prosecution for a campaign contribution he accepted which turned out to be part of an FBI sting. He pleaded guilty to one count of racketeering and served 29 months in a federal custody. He considered his prison time a 'monastic experience.' "

"Pat serves on the nine-member U.S. Prison Rape Elimination Commission, appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. . . . Pat also serves on the National Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons, co-chaired by former Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach and former Chief Judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, John Gibbons. Pat also served on Governor Schwarzenegger's 14-member Prison Rehabilitation Strike Team, established to completely revamp California's prison system.

"He earned both his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and his Juris Doctorate at the University of Southern California."[22]

"Barbara began her professional career with the Florida State University Police Dept. as the first woman uniformed police officer in North Florida in 1974. In 1979, she took over as the law enforcement grants coordinator for the Dept. of Community Affairs. From 1985-1986, she was selected as the law enforcement Fellow to the Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice (NIJ). From 1987-1997 she served as the Senior Executive Assistant to the Florida Attorney General and served in a number of positions including law enforcement liaison. In 1997, she became the Director of Government Affairs for Cash America International. Barbara has served on the Police Executive Research Group (PERF) Board of Directors, various committees of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and is co-founder of the National Association of Women Law Enforcement Executives (NAWLEE). She currently serves on the Board of the National Pawnbrokers Association (NPA).

"Barbara O'Brien has been a member of ALEC since 2006 and is on the Public Safety and Elections Task Force. She is also the Private Sector Chair of the Pawn Shop Subcommittee."[23]

Sean Parnell is the co-chair of the Elections and Ethics Subcommittee. According to a July 2011 article he wrote criticizing Common Cause's letter requesting an IRS audit of the American Legislative Exchange Council to revoke its tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status, explaining the Center for Competitive Politics' (CCP) involvement in ALEC, "Although we don't really have an interest or take sides in most of what ALEC does, it is an opportunity for us to meet with and share our views on the First Amendment and campaign finance issues with state legislators from around the country who are mostly, but not always, sympathetic to our perspectives."[24] He became president of CCP in 2007. Previously, he was vice president of external affairs at the Heartland Institute, primarily responsible for its fundraising activities.[25] While at Heartland, he penned a report for the Texas Public Policy Foundation about "specialty hospitals" and "the business of health care" in which he argued that "robust competition predictably brings consumers more choices, lower costs, and improved quality."[26]

"Stacie Rumenap is the Executive Director of Stop Child Predators (SCP), a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC, that prevents the sexual exploitation of children and protects the rights of crime victims. Prior to joining SCP, Ms. Rumenap was the Deputy Director of the American Conservative Union (ACU), and American Conservative Union Foundation. . . Before joining ACU/ACUF, Ms. Rumenap was the Executive Director of U.S. Term Limits (USTL). Ms. Rumenap also served as the Executive Director for the National Center for Growth.

"Ms. Rumenap has been a member of ALEC since 2004 and is on the Public Safety and Elections Task Force. She is also the Private Sector Chair of the Sexual Predators Subcommittee.

"Ms. Rumenap holds a M.A. in Legislative Affairs from. . . George Washington University. . . She serves on the Board of Directors for America’s Future Foundation and is on the Advisory Board for OmniLink Systems, a cutting-edge technology company that manufactures GPS monitoring devices."[27]

"Laurie Shanblum is the Senior Director of Business Development for the Corrections Corporation of America. She became director [of] customer relations in early 2001. Ms. Shanblum has had a thirty-seven year career in juvenile and adult corrections and criminal justice, including both the public and private sectors.

"Ms. Shanblum has been a member of ALEC since 2003 and is currently on the Public Safety and Elections Task Force. She is also sits on the Homeland Security Subcommittee."[28]

Politicians on the Executive Committee

"Representative Joe Driver is currently serving his eighth term in the Texas House of Representatives. Presently in his third term as Chairman of the Law Enforcement committee, Rep. Driver formerly served two terms as Chairman of the Texas Constitutional Revision committee. He has been a Representative in the Texas House since 1993.

"Representative Driver is currently a member of the Garland, Rowlett, and Sachse Chambers of Commerce. . . .

"Rep. Driver has been a member of ALEC since 2001, and was the former Vice Chairman of the former Criminal Justice Task Force. He currently sits on the Public Safety and Elections Task Force.

"Rep. Driver graduated from the University of North Texas with a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1971. In the private sector, Rep. Driver has been an agent for State Farm Insurance Companies for 35 years."[29]

Margaret Flory represents Rutland in the Vermont State Senate.[30] She was a Vermont State Representative from 1998 until her appointment to the State Senate in December 2009. She was at one point Minority Leader of the Vermont State House of Representatives.[31]

"Dan Greenberg represents legislative district 31 in the Arkansas General Assembly. His district includes portions of Pulaski County and Saline County.

"Greenberg received. . . a J.D. from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law. [He] was formerly an analyst for the conservative Heritage Foundation, a writer for the libertarian Cato Institute, and a teacher at the high school and college level in the fields of philosophy, political science, and computer programming. . . .

"As policy director for the former governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, Greenberg was named to Arkansas Business "40 under 40" list of leaders in business and government. Besides his work as an attorney and state representative, he is senior editor of the academic journal Critical Review and an adjunct law professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's W.H. Bowen School of Law.

"Greenberg serves on the Education, State Agencies, and Legislative Audit committees. He is the vice-chairman of the Joint Performance Review Committee. He is a former teacher at the Arkansas Governor's School for the Gifted and Talented and a former member of the Pulaski County Quorum Court."[32]

Rep. Jerry Madden has represented Texas' District 67 since 1993. "Madden worked 11 years for Texas Instruments Inc., 8 years for Teledyne Geotech, and in 2000 formed Jerry Madden Insurance to offer group health plan coverage options to small businesses out of his independent agency's Plano offices. In July of 2008, he sold his company and retired from the insurance business. He obtained a Master of Science in Management and Administration Sciences from the University of Texas at Dallas in 1979. . . . Madden is Chairman of the House Committee on Corrections, which he chaired from 2005-2009, as well as a member of the Select Committee on Election Contest, the Redistricting Committee, and the Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Committee. Prior committee appointments have included Calendars, Public Education, House Select Committee on Public School Finance, State Affairs, Urban Affairs, Public Safety, Elections, State, Federal and International Relations, and Rules and Resolutions. . . . Rep. Madden. . . [is] a member of the Board of Directors of the Council of State Government's Justice Center. . . [and] Chairman of the Law and Criminal Justice Committee formed by the National Conference of State Legislatures ([he] became Immediate Past Chair as of July 2010). . . . In June of 2010, Rep. Madden was appointed to serve on the Texas State Council for Interstate Adult Offender Supervision, and in July of 2010 was named co-chair of the National Conference of State Legislatures's Sentencing and Corrections Work Group."[33]

Sen. Pearce, the Arizona Senate President in 2011, co-authored Arizona's controversial SB1070 anti-immigrant law, which was drafted in part by the Federation for American Immigration Reform. In February 2011, he introduced and sponsored SB1611, a new immigrant omnibus bill that "has raised new fears by immigrant rights advocates who claim it will further polarize the state and damage economic recovery."[34] In 2006, he "sent an e-mail to supporters in which he copied an article from a White separatist group and a link to that group's Web site."[35] He was also associated with and even endorsed National Socialist Movement (neo-Nazi) member J.T. Ready.[36]

"Senator Pearce spent 23 years as Deputy Sherriff of Maricopa County. . . [He] received a B.A. in Management from the University of Phoenix and was enrolled at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Motor Vehicle Legal and Law College, Advanced Executive Development, Arizona State University, Budget and Appropriations, University of Arizona, and Arizona Judicial College, Supreme Court of Arizona."American Legislative Exchange Council Public Sector Executive Committee, organizational website, accessed June 2, 2011

"Representative Bill Ruppel has served as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives since 1992. During his tenure, he has served as the Vice Chair of the Safety Committee, and is currently the Ranking Minority Member of the House Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee. He also sits on Indiana's Counterterrorism and Security Council.

"Representative Ruppel has been a member of ALEC since 2004 and currently sits on the Public Safety and Elections Task Force. He is also a Public Sector Chair of the Homeland Security Subcommittee."[37]

"Suder is currently serving his 6th term as State Representative for Wisconsin's 69th Assembly District. [He] served as Co-Chairman of the Biofuels Study Committee. He is the former Chairman of the Criminal Justice and Homeland Security Committee and is a member of the Assembly Insurance, Fish and Wildlife and Personal Privacy Committees. Suder also serves as Chairman of the nationwide Homeland Security Task Force for the American Legislative Exchange Council based in Washington D.C. As a member of the Rural Economic Development Board, Suder has helped award millions of dollars in grants and low-interest loans to small businesses in rural areas of the state. [He is] a member of Wisconsin's 115th Fighter Wing [of] the Wisconsin Air National Guard. . . Suder is currently serving on active duty as a member of the Wisconsin Air National Guard’s 115th Fighter Wing in his second and third tours of duty to the Middle East."<[38]

"Gene Whisnant (R-Sunriver) is serving his fourth term as State Representative for rural Deschutes County, House District 53. He was appointed first on September 5, 2003. Gene has served as the ALEC Oregon Public Chair since 2005. . . .

"He served on the important Ways and Means Committee and the Education and Public Safety subcommittees in the 2005 73rd Legislative Session and on the House Interim Education and Judiciary Committees. During the 72nd Legislative Session, Gene served on the House Interim Education and Judiciary Committees."

"Gene is a retired US Air Force Colonel. He served in Vietnam, Germany, and Yugoslavia. Also, he served in the Pentagon on the Air Staff and as a member of the Secretary of Defense staff. . . . [H]e earned a Master's degree from the University of Arkansas in International Affairs."[39]

Corporate, Trade or Other Group Members

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  1. ↑ American Legislative Exchange Council Inside ALEC Apr. 2009 (pdf), organizational newsletter, April 2009, at p. 7
  2. ↑ [American Legislative Exchange Council, 2011 Task Force Meetings, conference brochure on file with CMD, August 11, 2011]
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 3.25 3.26 3.27 3.28 3.29 3.30 3.31 3.32 3.33 3.34 3.35 3.36 3.37 3.38 3.39 3.40 3.41 3.42 3.43 3.44 3.45 3.46 3.47 3.48 3.49 3.50 3.51 3.52 American Legislative Exchange Council, "Public Safety and Elections Task Force Meeting," agenda and meeting materials, August 4, 2011, on file with CMD
  4. ↑ Private Sector Executive Committee
  5. ↑ Private Sector Executive Committee
  6. ↑ Private Sector Executive CommitteeIbid.
  7. ↑ American Legislative Exchange Council Jonathan Moody, organization bio, accessed June 2, 2011
  8. ↑ American Legislative Exchange Council Inside ALEC Feb. 2011, (pdf) organizational newsletter, February 2011, p. 18
  9. ↑ Texas House of Representatives Representative Madden, Jerry, government website, accessed June 11, 2011
  10. ↑ Texas House of Representatives Representative Madden, Jerry, government website, accessed June 11, 2011
  11. ↑ American Legislative Exchange Council Agenda for 2011 ALEC Spring Task Force Summit, organizational website, accessed June 14, 2011
  12. ↑ American Legislative Exchange Council Public Safety and Elections Task Force, organizational website, accessed May 28, 2011
  13. ↑ American Legislative Exchange Council Inside ALEC Feb. 2011, (pdf) organizational newsletter, February 2011, p. 18
  14. ↑ Texas House of Representatives Representative Madden, Jerry, government website, accessed June 11, 2011
  15. ↑ Stop Child Predators About Us - Executive Team, organizational website, accessed May 28, 2011
  16. ↑ American Legislative Exchange Council Public Safety and Elections Task Force, organization website, accessed May 28, 2011
  17. ↑ Stop Child Predators Home, organizational website homepage, accessed May 2011
  18. ↑ Stop Child Predators About, organizational website, accessed May 2011
  19. ↑ American Legislative Exchange Council Private Sector Chair Biography: Tara Mica, ALEC organizational website, Accessed May, 2011
  20. ↑ American Legislative Exchange Council Private Sector Executive Committee, organizational website, accessed June 2, 2011
  21. ↑ American Legislative Exchange Council Private Sector Executive Committee Ibid.
  22. ↑ American Legislative Exchange Council Private Sector Executive Committee Ibid.
  23. ↑ American Legislative Exchange Council Private Sector Executive Committee Ibid.
  24. ↑ Sean Parnell, Common Cause demands baseless IRS investigation of ALEC, Center for Competitive Politics blog, July 15, 2011
  25. ↑ Center for Competitive Politics, Sean Parnell, President, organizational biography, accessed July 15, 2011
  26. ↑ Sean Parnell, [http://www.texaspolicy.com/pdf/2008-05-RR03-specialtyhospitals-parnell.pdf Innovations in the Business of Health Care: The Role of Specialty Hospitals], Texas Public Policy Foundation report, May 2008
  27. ↑ American Legislative Exchange Council Private Sector Executive Committee Ibid.
  28. ↑ Private Sector Executive Committee Ibid.
  29. ↑ American Legislative Exchange Council Public Sector Executive Committee, organizational website, accessed June 2, 2011
  30. ↑ Project Vote Smart Senator Margaret 'Peg' Flory (VT), online profile, accessed June 11, 2011
  31. ↑ Adam Brown, Department of Political Science, Brigham Young University Margaret Flory, online profile, accessed June 11, 2011
  32. ↑ American Legislative Exchange Council Private Sector Executive Committee Ibid.
  33. ↑ Texas House of Representatives Representative Madden, Jerry, government website, accessed June 11, 2011
  34. ↑ Steve Nunez New immigration bill expands I.D. requirements, KGUN9-TV, February 22, 2011
  35. ↑ Amanda J. Crawford Pearce e-mail draws apology, Arizona Republic, October 11, 2006
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