Buck, J

<p><b>Jim Buck</b> is a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Republican" title="Republican" class="mw-redirect">Republican</a> member of the Indiana State Senate.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jim_Buck#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a></sup></p>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jim_Buck#Ties_to_the_American_Legislative_Exchange_Council"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jim_Buck#Articles_and_resources"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Articles and resources</span></a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jim_Buck#Related_SourceWatch_articles"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Related SourceWatch articles</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jim_Buck#External_resources"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">External resources</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jim_Buck#External_articles"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">External articles</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jim_Buck#References"><span class="tocnumber">2.4</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline">Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council</span></h2>

<p>Buck is also a member of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC). He is the ALEC Indiana State Chair, ALEC Co-Chair for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tax_and_Fiscal_Policy_Task_Force" title="Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force">Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force</a>, as well as a member of the ALEC Board of Directors, all as of July 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jim_Buck#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jim_Buck#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jim_Buck#cite_note-3" title="">[4]</a></sup>

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ALEC" title="ALEC" class="mw-redirect">ALEC</a> 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. <i>(ALEC says that corporations do not vote on the board.)</i> 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 <a href="http://alecexposed.org/" class="external text" title="http://alecexposed.org/" rel="nofollow">ALECexposed.org</a>.

<h2><span class="mw-headline">Articles and resources</span></h2>

<h3><span class="mw-headline">Related SourceWatch articles</span></h3>

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<h3><span class="mw-headline">References</span></h3>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jim_Buck#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.in.gov/legislative/senate_republicans/homepages/s21/4144.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.in.gov/legislative/senate_republicans/homepages/s21/4144.htm" rel="nofollow">Senate Republicans</a>, IN.Gov, Accessed July 7, 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jim_Buck#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.alec.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=State_Chairmen&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=13614," class="external text" title="http://www.alec.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=State_Chairmen&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=13614," rel="nofollow">State Chairmen, American Legislative Exchange Council</a>, ALEC.org, Accessed July 7, 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jim_Buck#cite_ref-2" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.alec.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Tax_and_Fiscal_Policy1" class="external text" title="http://www.alec.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Tax_and_Fiscal_Policy1" rel="nofollow">Tax and Fiscal Policy, American Legislative Exchange Council</a>, ALEC.org, Accessed July 7, 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jim_Buck#cite_ref-3" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.alec.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Board_of_Directors&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=11888" class="external text" title="http://www.alec.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Board_of_Directors&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=11888" rel="nofollow">Board of Directors, American Legislative Exchange Council</a>, ALEC.org, Accessed July 7, 2011.</li>

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<h4>Indiana Legislators Connected To ALEC</h4>

<p>Many ALEC members are lawmakers. Indiana House Education Committee Chair Robert Behning’s resumé boasts of having held leadership positions within the group. And <a title="Sacramento Bee" href="http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/02/4095681/nearly-1000-state-legislators.html" target="blank">several</a> organizations <a title="The Weekly" href="http://www.theweekly.com/news/2011/December/08/Lynne_Riley.html" target="blank">reported</a> on Indiana State Superintendent Tony Bennett’s keynote address at a ALEC convention in Phoenix, AZ earlier this year. At the same conference, Indiana State Representative Dave Frizzell was appointed national chairman of the organization. The <a title='Hoosier Republicans Have "Significant Involvement" In Conservative Policy Group' href="http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/dec/01/no-headline---ev_gop/" target="_blank">Evansville Courier Journal</a> has a specific list of other Indiana legislators either working on or leading ALEC task forces.</p>

<p>State Sen. Jim Buck, R-Kokomo, meanwhile, chairs ALEC’s tax and fiscal policy committee. State Rep. David Wolkins, R-Winona Lake, chairs its energy, environment and agriculture committee.

In all, nine of the 150 members of the Indiana General Assembly attended the summit. About 20 more Indiana Republican legislators are members of ALEC but did not attend.</p>

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<b>James Buck</b> (b. July 30, 1945) is a <a href="http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Republican" title="Republican" class="mw-redirect">Republican</a> member of the <a href="http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Indiana_State_Senate" title="Indiana State Senate">Indiana State Senate</a>, representing District 21.

Buck served in the Indiana State House of Representatives from 1994 to 2008. He then joined the Indiana State Senate in 2008. He has served in that position since, representing the 21st district.

Buck is Vice President of WWKI’s We Care, a local charity. Buck has worked as a Tool and Die Mold Maker. He has also worked as a Real Estate Broker.

Buck received his Masters Degree in Business Administration and his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Indiana Wesleyan University. He received his Journeyman Tool and Die Mold Maker Classification from Delco Electronics. He also holds an Indiana Real Estate Broker’s License. Buck also attended Toccoa Falls Bible College.</p>