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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">burr justin alec POW</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/North_Carolina_ALEC_Politicians">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/North_Carolina_ALEC_Politicians</a></font></p><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2017-04-28/north-carolina-house-votes-to-protect-drivers-who-hit-protesters">https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2017-04-28/north-carolina-house-votes-to-protect-drivers-who-hit-protesters</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">also traffic cam 500$ fine</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><div class="ad-in-text-target " style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The North Carolina House of Representatives approved legislation in a lopsided 67-48 vote Thursday that would shield drivers from civil liability if they collide with protesters.</font></p></div><div class="ad-in-text-target " style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Opponents say the legislation is unnecessary and may give drivers the false impression they can maliciously run over activists. One Democrat warned it would make the state the butt of jokes about being full of “dumb rednecks.”</font></p></div><div class="ad-in-text-target " style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Republican proponents, who sent the measure to the state Senate by a veto-proof margin, say recent encounters between activists and drivers makes the reform both sensible and necessary.</font></p></div><div class="ad-in-text-target " style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Last year, people protesting the fatal shooting of <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2016-11-30/no-charges-against-officer-in-keith-lamont-scott-shooting-in-charlotte-prosecutor-says" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Keith Lamont Scott</a> by a Charlotte police officer blocked roadways during at-times chaotic protest-related activities.</font></p></div><div class="ad-in-text-target " style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“These people are nuts to run in front of cars like they do … and say, ‘Me and my buddy here are going to stop this two-and-a-half-ton vehicle,’” GOP state Rep. Michael Speciale said in support of the bill, The News & Observer <a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article146957349.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">reports</a>. “If somebody does bump somebody, why should they be held liable?”</font></p><div data-config-distributor-id="90080" id="ndn-video-player-2" class="ndn_embed" data-config-site-section="ndn1_usnews" data-config-height="9/16w" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 636.656px;"><div class="ad-in-text-target " style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Democratic state Rep. Henry Michaux, however, points out North Carolina is one of <a href="http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/events/lawyers_professional_liability/ls_lpl_2016_fall_conf_50_state_survey_comparative_fault.authcheckdam.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">just four states</a> with a pure contributory negligence rule, which means it's already impossible to collect a payout if the injured party is even 1 percent at fault for an accident.</font></p></div><div class=" " style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="callout-right hide-for-small" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem 1.5rem; padding: 0px; width: auto; float: right; max-width: 300px; position: relative; z-index: 2; display: inherit !important;"><hr class="hide-for-small-only" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-image: initial; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1875rem; display: inherit !important;" /><h4 class="text-normal text-uppercase text-coal block-normal" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin-bottom: 0.9375rem !important; text-transform: uppercase !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></h4><hr class="block-flush" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-image: initial; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; clear: both; height: 0px; margin-top: 1.25rem; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px !important;" /></div></div><div class="ad-in-text-target " style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michaux, an African-American attorney, tells U.S. News the bill therefore would not give drivers additional protection from liability. Instead, he sees it as an unconstitutional invitation to mow down protesters or weave through parades, and he feels the motivation behind the bill may be racial.</font></p></div><div class="ad-in-text-target " style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Who demonstrates more than people of color?” Michaux says. “It would give some folks the idea,” he says, to intentionally run over people “because you’ve got a group of black folks out here or a group of Latinos out here.”</font></p></div><div class=" " style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ad-in-text-target " style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The idea of immunizing drivers appears to have originated in North Dakota, where state Rep. Keith Kempenich proposed a <a href="https://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/65-2017/documents/17-0351-01000.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">similar bill</a> in January after his mother-in-law <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/01/17/how-a-lawmakers-mother-in-law-inspired-a-bill-to-protect-drivers-who-accidentally-run-over-protesters/?utm_term=.ce2df14b7012" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">allegedly</a> was swarmed on a roadway by protesters opposed to construction of the <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2017-03-28/a-timeline-of-the-dakota-access-oil-pipeline" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Dakota Access oil pipeline</a>. The measure was rejected in a <a href="https://legiscan.com/ND/bill/1203/2017" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">41-50</a> vote in February.</font></p></div><div class="ad-in-text-target " style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Tennessee lawmakers also <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2017-02-13/common-sense-legislation-would-shield-drivers-who-run-over-protesters" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">took up the cause</a> after a driver ran into protesters opposed to an action by President Donald Trump and wound up with "<a href="http://wate.com/2017/01/30/nashville-police-investigate-report-of-car-running-into-group-at-rally/" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">five or six</a>" on his hood. Sponsors were tight-lipped amid negative press and the bill <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/tennessee/articles/2017-03-22/tennessee-bill-to-shield-drivers-who-hit-protesters-fails" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">failed</a> in committee in March.</font></p></div><div class="ad-in-text-target " style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The potential for bad press did not deter lawmakers in North Carolina, who passed the bill over a warning from Democratic Rep. Graig Meyer that it was inviting jokes about “those dumb rednecks” in the state.</font></p></div><div class="ad-in-text-target " style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The bill says drivers are not protected from liability if they are "willful or wanton" in plowing over pedestrians, but are protected if they are exercising "due care" and hit someone who is "participating in a protest or demonstration and blocking traffic in a public street or highway."</font></p></div><div class="ad-in-text-target " style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The measure includes language barring immunity if a driver strikes a pedestrian who has “a valid permit” allowing a protest in the public street "where the injury occurred."</font></p></div><div class="ad-in-text-target " style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's office did not respond to a request for comment, nor did the<b> bill's sponsor, Republican state Rep. Justin Burr, </b>or the state Senate's Republican majority leader, Harry Brown.</font></p></div><div class="ad-in-text-target " style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republicans hold substantial majorities in both chambers of the state legislature and could make the bill law by overriding a potential gubernatorial veto. They overrode vetoes on <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/carolina-lawmakers-halfway-veto-override-court-size-47037980" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">two bills</a> this week.</font></p></div><div class=" " style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class=" " style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="callout-left hide-for-small" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 1.5rem 0.9375rem 0px; padding: 0px; width: auto; float: left; max-width: 300px; display: inherit !important;"><hr class="hide-for-small-only" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-image: initial; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; clear: both; height: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1875rem; display: inherit !important;" /><h4 class="text-normal text-uppercase text-coal block-normal" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin-bottom: 0.9375rem !important; text-transform: uppercase !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">(ALEC), a controversial and powerful group that brings together state legislators and corporate representatives to promote conservative policies, has been pushing to repeal state renewable energy standards -- and now lawmakers affiliated with the group have filed legislation to do just that in North Carolina.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This week, the Affordable and Reliable Energy Act (H298) was introduced to repeal the state's renewable energy portfolio standard (REPS), which currently requires 3 percent of all electricity sold in the state to come from renewable sources, with that portion rising to 12.5 percent by 2025. North Carolina was the first state in the Southeast to adopt a REPS law, with the General Assembly passing it with broad bipartisan support in 2007.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The move to scrap the REPS comes despite research showing that the law has been responsible for significant job creation in North Carolina, which was recently found to be among the top states for clean-energy project announcements.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The North Carolina REPS repeal bill has four primary sponsors -- and three of the four have known affiliations with ALEC. The primary sponsors, all Republicans, are:</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>* State Rep. Mike Hager (R-Rutherford, Burke). First elected to the state House in 2010, Hager is an engineer who worked for 17 years for Duke Energy</b>, which under H298 would be allowed to recoup from its customers the costs of contracts it has entered for renewable power. Though Hager says he is now retired from the utility, his economic disclosure form does not report any income from the utility giant. However, it does report that he received $1,000 from ALEC to attend a conference in 2011.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The head of the Public Utilities and Energy Committee, Hager has also been a key leader in the push to allow fracking for natural gas in North Carolina, even attempting to have a key vote taken on the matter when a Democrat momentarily left the floor during debate.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The top industry contributor to Hager's campaign is electric utilities, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics' FollowTheMoney.org database. In the most recent election cycle, he received $8,000 from Duke Energy, $5,500 from the N.C. Association of Electric Cooperatives, $4,000 from Progress Energy, and $2,000 from Dominion.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>* Rep. Marilyn Avila (R-Wake). A chemist who once worked for the North Carolina-based textile giant HanesBrands,</b> Avila was elected to the General Assembly in 2006. Before that, she spent 15 years working as the administrative director and event coordinator with the John Locke Foundation (JLF), a Raleigh think tank that was founded and is funded primarily by leading conservative financier Art Pope, who is now the state budget director.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JLF has been a leading voice of climate science denial in North Carolina, and it has been working to repeal the REPS with representatives of ALEC and the American Tradition Institute, another climate science denial group with fossil-fuel industry connections. Avila is among the North Carolina lawmakers who attended ALEC's 2011 annual meeting.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In the most recent election cycle, energy interests were among her top 10 biggest donors, according to FollowTheMoney.org.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">* Rep. George Cleveland (R-Onslow). A former Marine and assistant security officer for the State Department, Cleveland was elected to the state House in 2004. He filed legislation to repeal REPS during the last legislative session, but it didn't go anywhere.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Earlier this year, Cleveland sponsored a talk at the legislature by John Droz</b>, a fellow with the American Tradition Institute, that attacked renewable energy and purported to show that global warming is a scientific hoax. In 2010, Cleveland was among the state lawmakers who signed an ALEC letter to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid opposing plans to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Electric utilities were fourth among Cleveland's biggest industry contributors in the latest election cycle, according to FollowTheMoney.org.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>* Rep. Jeff Collins (R-Nash, Franklin).</b> A financial consultant and the founder of Rocky Mount Bible Church, Collins is the only one of the four primary sponsors of the REPS repeal bill who does not have documented ties to ALEC. He is a member of the Public Utilities and Energy Committee chaired by Hager.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Electric utilities were sixth among Collins' biggest industry contributors in the latest election cycle, according to FollowTheMoney.org.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Of the 21 co-sponsors of the bill, five also have known ties to ALEC: Reps. Hugh Blackwell (R-Burke), Rayne Brown (R-Davidson), </span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Justin Burr (R-Stanly)</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Sarah Stevens (R-Surry), and Mike Stone (R-Lee). In addition, House Speaker Thom Tillis</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (R-Mecklenburg), who will play a key role in advancing the legislation, recently <b>joined ALEC's board of directors.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ALEC claims that renewable energy standards increase energy costs, but research has shown just the opposite: A recent study conducted by RTI International and La Capra Associates for the N.C. Sustainable Energy Association showed that the state's REPS law was not only a key driver of clean energy development and job creation but that the law will also lead to lower electricity rates over time by avoiding the construction of costly new fossil fuel and nuclear power plants. By 2026, the state's clean energy program will have resulted in a total of $173 million in cost savings for electricity customers, the study found.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">ALEC's modus operandi has drawn widespread criticism, with the watchdog group Common Cause filing an IRS complaint last year accusing the group of violating its tax-exempt status by lobbying state lawmakers.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Almost 98 percent of ALEC's budget is raised from sources other than legislative dues, including corporations, trade associations, and corporate foundations, according to the Center for Media and Democracy's ALEC Exposed project. ALEC has also gotten significant funding from foundations controlled by the billionaire brothers behind the Koch Industries oil and chemical conglomerate, who have also been major funders of attacks on climate science and renewable energy.</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Duke Energy is on the record as supporting North Carolina's REPS law, but at the same time it's a paying member of ALEC (despite calls to resign) and helped finance the group's conference</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> held last spring in the company's hometown of Charlotte, N.C. That's where the Electricity Freedom Act -- ALEC's model bill to repeal REPS -- was drafted by the Heartland Institute, a prominent climate science denial group that's received significant funding from fossil fuel interests including the Kochs and Exxon Mobil, another major funder of climate disinformation.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">While the language of the North Carolina bill differs from that in the model legislation, the measures would have the same effect of ending renewable energy purchase requirements for the state's investor-owned utilities.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>It's uncertain how North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R), a longtime Duke Energy employee who holds substantial investments in the company, would respond to the bill</b> should it pass the legislature and end up on his desk. McCrory has been particularly supportive of offshore wind, embracing it as part of his all-of-the-above energy strategy.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The News & Observer of Raleigh, N.C. reports that McCrory is currently discussing the future of North Carolina's renewable energy program with his advisers and cabinet and said it was important to be clear with investors about the state's long-term plan.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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