ALEC ALUMs

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</div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">not sure how they define alum?</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">vs list below</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-size: small;">GovernorsGovernor John Bel Edwards, Louisiana DEMOCRATGovernor Kay Ivey, AlabamaGovernor Brian Kemp, GeorgiaGovernor Kristi Noem, South DakotaGovernor Mike Parson, MissouriGovernor Kim Reynolds, IowaU.S. SenateSen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA)Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV)Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS)Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID)Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL)Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC)Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)U.S. House of Representatives<table style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px;" width="735"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="46%">Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND)Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN)Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA)Rep. Cliff Bentz (R-OR)Rep. Stephanie Bice (R-OK)Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ)Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX)Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA)Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK)Rep. James Comer (R-KY)Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL)Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC)Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX)Rep Randy Feenstra (R-IA)Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI)Rep. Bob Gibbs (R-OH)Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO)Rep. Mark Green (R-TN)Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA)Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI)Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY)Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD)Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO)Rep. Yvette Herrell (R-NM)Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA)Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI)Rep. Jake LaTurner (R-KS)Rep. Robert Latta (R-OH)Rep. Al Lawson (D-FL)Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ)Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA)Rep. Frank Lucas (R-OK)Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO)</td><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="53%">Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC)Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY)Rep. Ken Marchant (R-TX)Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA)Rep. Cathy McMorris-Rodgers (R-WA)Rep. John Moolenaar (R-MI)Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV)Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL)Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC)Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-CA)Rep. Tom O’Halleran (D-AZ)Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-MS)Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO)Rep. Bill Posey (R-FL)Rep. Michael D. Rogers (R-AL)Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT)Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA)Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ)Rep. Austin Scott (R-GA)Rep. Michael Simpson (R-ID)Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE)Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO)Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA)Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN)Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH)Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI)Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN)Rep. Randy Weber (R-TX)Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL)Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-AR)Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC)Rep. Don Young (R-AK)</td></tr></tbody></table> </div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">from my alecsum:</div><div style="font-size: small;"><div style="font-size: medium;">Farm Team: Amazing number of alums (state level leader have "duty" to pass laws in state; one in 100 is democrat):</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;">Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;">Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;">Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (1995 Chair of ALEC Business Policy Board)</div><div style="font-size: medium;">Speaker Tom DeLay (R-Texas)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;">White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card (for George W. Bush's Administration)[7]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;">Senator Don Nickles (Oklahoma)</div><div style="font-size: medium;">Congressman Joe Wilson (recently called Obama a "liar")</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;">Representative Dan Burton (Indiana)</div><div style="font-size: medium;">Congressman Billy Tauzin (Louisiana)</div><div style="font-size: medium;">Representative Katherine Harris (Florida)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;">Senator Jim Inhofe (Oklahoma)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;">Former Governor Tommy Thompson (Wisconsin), running for U.S. Senate in 2012, identified by ALEC as involved in its formative years[7]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;">Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ)[8]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;"></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;">Governor Jan Brewer (Arizona)[9]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;">Former Governor Bill Owens (Colorado)[7]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;">Governor Terry Branstad (Iowa), identified by ALEC as involved in its formative years[10]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;">Former Governor John Engler (Michigan), identified by ALEC as involved in its formative years[7]</div><div style="font-size: medium;">Governor Nikki Haley (South Carolina), ALEC alumna[11]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;">Governor John Kasich (Ohio), identified by ALEC as involved in its formative years[10]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;">Former Governor Frank Keating (Oklahoma)[7]</div><div style="font-size: medium;">Governor Bob McDonnell (Virginia)[12]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;">Governor Rick Perry (Texas); [13] received the "Thomas Jefferson Freedom Award" from ALEC in 2010[14]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;">Governor Scott Walker (Wisconsin)[15][16]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;">Former Governor Tommy Thompson (Wisconsin), identified by ALEC as involved in its formative years[7]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;">Governor Mary Fallin (Oklahoma) [17]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;">---</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium;">===VUKMIR BUSTED FOR LETTING LOBBYIST WRITE BILL, AG BOGUS STATE CONST IMMUNITY TO FOIA
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Top ALEC Leader Has A U.S. Senate Seat In Her Sights
Leah

Vukmir helped lead the business-friendly American Legislative Exchange

Council of state legislators. Now she’s the Wisconsin GOP’s nominee for

Senate.
Kevin Robillard

Sep 17, 2018,
Wisconsin GOP state

Sen. Leah Vukmir, now her party's nominee against Democratic U.S. Sen.

Tammy Baldwin, was once ALEC's national chairwoman.

Hundreds of

Republican state legislators are already members of the American

Legislative Exchange Council, a Koch network-backed conservative

nonprofit that has played a major role in pushing laws restricting

voting rights, rolling back regulations, pushing ‘Stand Your Ground’

laws, privatizing prisons and sabotaging Obamacare over the past decade.

But one of the group’s top leaders might soon reach a higher level: The U.S. Senate.

Wisconsin

state Sen. Leah Vukmir, who is the GOP nominee to challenge Democratic

Sen. Tammy Baldwin in November, isn’t running from her ties to ALEC ― as

the group is known for short ― on the campaign trail. Her ties to the

group run too deep: She’s been a member since 2004 and a board member

since 2013. She also served as the group’s national chairwoman in 2016

and won an award for “legislator of the year” in 2009.

A

HuffPost review of Vukmir’s legislative record since 2011 found she had

introduced, co-sponsored or authored 24 different pieces of legislation

that seem to draw directly from ALEC model policies. The bills allowed

nursing homes to conceal records of neglect and abuse, barred labor

requirements for public works projects, waded into wars over free speech

on college campuses and required legislative approval to expand

Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.

And in return, Vukmir has

collected about $40,000 worth of donations to her federal and state

campaigns from ALEC or its corporate partners, including a $1,000 check

from ALEC’s CEO in 2017.

“I’ve been involved in a national

organization called ALEC ― American Legislative Exchange Council. I

embrace it even though the left likes to call it a big Koch brothers

conspiracy organization,” Vukmir said last year during a meeting with a

group of College Republicans. At a meeting of the Kenosha County GOP a

few months earlier, Vukmir described ALEC as “an organization that

stands for everything I’ve ever campaigned on from day one when I

campaigned to be a member of the State Assembly.”

Baldwin, the

most progressive of the 10 Democrats representing states won by

President Donald Trump in 2016, has a steady lead in the contest,

according to political prognosticators and public polling. The

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the National Republican

Senatorial Committee have not spent any money in the contest, although

groups backed by the Koch network have continued to target Baldwin.

ALEC,

which is funded by a slew of major corporations like Pfizer, FedEx and

T-Mobile, is best-known for bringing together major companies and

Republican state legislators to write “model policies” for state

legislatures to adopt. (The group claims to be bipartisan, but its known

leadership is almost entirely members of the GOP.) But Vukmir’s

ascendancy and her potential election would mark the latest display of

how ties to ALEC can help GOP legislators advance their careers.

Baldwin’s

allies are planning to make Vukmir’s ties to the nonprofit a central

part of their fall campaign, and her campaign has already released two

television ads on Vukmir’s ties to the group.

“Wisconsin’s U.S.

Senate race is about who will put Wisconsin first, and Leah Vukmir has

spent her past 16 years in Madison working for her corporate special

interest backers and legislating ALEC’s agenda at the expense of

Wisconsin families,” said Brad Bainum, a spokesman for the Wisconsin

Democratic Party. “It’s clear that Leah Vukmir is not on Wisconsin’s

side.”

Vukmir’s campaign responded by noting Baldwin has also taken donations from executives and companies with ties to ALEC.

“Sen.

Baldwin has taken over $20,000 this election cycle from companies or

employees with ties to ALEC,” said Jess Ward, Vukmir’s campaign manager.

“This is what Wisconsinites hate about swampy Washington politicians

like Sen. Baldwin.”

While ALEC has existed since the 1970s,

liberal skepticism of the group peaked during the Obama era, as

Republicans locked out of power on the federal level turned to the

states. Democrats and progressives have blamed ALEC for things like the

spread of laws cracking down on illegal immigration and strict voter

identification requirements. Republicans including former EPA

Administrator Scott Pruit, Arizona Reps. Debbie Lesko and Andy Biggs and

Georgia Rep. Doug Collins were members of the group while serving in

state legislatures.
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