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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...b<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">elow is an abbreviated outline of Gibbons' academic, professional, and political career:</span><span id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_Gibbons#cite_note-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></span></font></div><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.6em 1.6em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2007-Present: Director and chairman of audit committee, Preformed Line Products</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2005-Present: Director, Associated Estates Realty Corporation</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2004-2011: Chairman, Global M&A Partners</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1989-Present: Chairman and senior managing director, Brown G<b>ibbons</b> Lang & Company</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1985-1989: Chief executive officer, Underwood Neuhaus</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1975-1985: Senior vice president, McDonald Investments</font></li></ul><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(50, 56, 61); padding: 10px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span class="mw-headline" id="2022_battleground_election" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2022 battleground election</font></span></h2><dl style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;"><dl style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate_election_in_Ohio,2022(May_3_Republican_primary)" title="United States Senate election in Ohio, 2022 (May 3 Republican primary)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">United States Senate election in Ohio, 2022 (May 3 Republican primary)</a></font></span></dd></dl></dd></dl><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Seven candidates are running in the May 3 Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Ohio, including </span><a class="mw-selflink selflink" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">Mike Gibbons</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Josh_Mandel" title="Josh Mandel" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Josh Mandel</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Jane_Timken" title="Jane Timken" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Jane Timken</a>, and <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/J.D.Vance" title="J.D. Vance" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">J.D. Vance</a>.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Incumbent </span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Rob_Portman" title="Rob Portman" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Rob Portman</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (R), who was first elected in 2010, is </span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_U.S.Congress_incumbents_who_are_not_running_for_re-election_in_2022" title="List of U.S. Congress incumbents who are not running for re-election in 2022" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">not running for re-election</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><span id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_Gibbons#cite_note-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Matt_Dolan" title="Matt Dolan" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Matt Dolan</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Neil_Patel" title="Neil Patel" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Neil Patel</a>, and <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mark_Pukita" title="Mark Pukita" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Mark Pukita</a> are also running in the primary. Gibbons, Mandel, Timken, and Vance have led in fundraising, endorsements, and polling.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Politico'</i>s Alex Isenstadt wrote that "[t]he Senate race in Ohio is a high-profile example of how Trump is dominating Republican down-ballot primaries, and how his support is seen as make-or-break for those seeking the party’s nomination."<span id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_Gibbons#cite_note-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gibbons, a businessman and investor, says his background in the private sector has prepared him for the U.S. Senate: "My job was to go in and convince CEOs and CFOs that they could trust me to handle the most important transactions those companies would ever do. And I have to tell you, I think it’s great practice for the U.S. Senate.”<span id="cite_ref-gibbons1_4-0" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_Gibbons#cite_note-gibbons1-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a></span> Gibbons co-chaired former President <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump's</a> (R) 2016 campaign in Ohio, and has said "I don't believe we had a president that did more for this country in my lifetime than Donald Trump did."<span id="cite_ref-gibbons1_4-1" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_Gibbons#cite_note-gibbons1-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a></span><span id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_Gibbons#cite_note-5" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[5]</a></span> Gibbons also said, "the Republican Party is not about just Donald Trump, the Republican Party most carefully reflects my ideology which is, as I said philosophical conservatism."<span id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_Gibbons#cite_note-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[6]</a></span> Sen. <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Rand_Paul" title="Rand Paul" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Rand Paul</a> (R) <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_Gibbons#Noteworthy_endorsements" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">endorsed</a> Gibbons.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mandel served as <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Ohio_Treasurer" title="Ohio Treasurer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Ohio Treasurer</a> from 2011 to 2019. Mandel said "when I get to Washington, I'm not just going to drain the swamp, I'm going to blow up the swamp. And yes, I'll be taking on the secular left, yes, I'll be taking on the radical left. But with as much ferocity and strength and force, I'm going to take on the squishy establishment RINO Republicans," a group he says includes Utah Sen. <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Mitt Romney</a> (R), Wyoming Rep. <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Liz_Cheney" title="Liz Cheney" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Liz Cheney</a> (R), and Ohio Rep. <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Anthony_Gonzalez" title="Anthony Gonzalez" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Anthony Gonzalez</a> (R).<span id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_Gibbons#cite_note-7" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[7]</a></span> Mandel has also said, "there’s only one candidate that consistently says in every audience — whether it’s Hudson, Ohio, or Cincinnati, Ohio, or Toledo or Marietta — what I am about to say to you … that I believe the 2020 election was stolen from Donald J. Trump.”<span id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_Gibbons#cite_note-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[8]</a></span> U.S. Sens. <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_Lee" title="Mike Lee" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Mike Lee</a> (R) and <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Cynthia_Lummis" title="Cynthia Lummis" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Cynthia Lummis</a> (R) <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_Gibbons#Noteworthy_endorsements" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">endorsed</a> Mandel.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Timken served as the chairwoman of the Ohio Republican Party from 2017 to 2021. Timken said her experience leading the Ohio Republican Party shows that she can unite the party: "As soon as I became chair, I realized that I needed to bring people together. We had new Republicans that came into the party because of President Trump. We had some that drifted away. I successfully unified the party when I became chair, and so I have a real understanding of building a broad base and coalition of support."<span id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_Gibbons#cite_note-9" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[9]</a></span> Timken has said she believes the November 2020 presidential election was marked by fraud and that she would not have voted to certify the election results.<span id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_Gibbons#cite_note-10" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[10]</a></span> On February 16, 2022, Portman <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_Gibbons#Noteworthy_endorsements" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">endorsed</a> Timken.<span id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_Gibbons#cite_note-11" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[11]</a></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Vance served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2003 to 2007, before working in venture capital in San Francisco. In 2016, he wrote <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hillbilly Elegy</i>, a memoir about growing up Middletown, Ohio. Vance has campaigned on bringing manufacturing back to Ohio, fixing the country's immigration system and completing the wall along the southern border, and breaking up large technology companies.<span id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_Gibbons#cite_note-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[12]</a></span> Vance was critical of Trump in 2016 but has said "I ask folks not to judge me based on what I said in 2016, because I’ve been very open that I did say those critical things and I regret them, and I regret being wrong about the guy. I think he was a good president, I think he made a lot of good decisions for people, and I think he took a lot of flak.”<span id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_Gibbons#cite_note-13" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[13]</a></span> Sen. <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Josh_Hawley" title="Josh Hawley" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Josh Hawley</a> (R) <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_Gibbons#Noteworthy_endorsements" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">endorsed</a> Vance. On April 15, Trump endorsed Vance.<span id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_Gibbons#cite_note-14" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[14]</a></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate_election_in_Ohio,2016" title="United States Senate election in Ohio, 2016" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">2016</a>, Portman defeated <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Ted_Strickland" title="Ted Strickland" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Ted Strickland</a> (D) 58% to 37.2%. Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., who served from 1974 to 1999, was the last Democrat to hold the seat, serving from 1974 to 1999.<span id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_Gibbons#cite_note-15" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[15]</a></span> Ohio is one of <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate_elections,2022#States_with_senators_from_different_parties" title="United States Senate elections, 2022" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">seven states</a> with a split Senate delegation—<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Sherrod_Brown" title="Sherrod Brown" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Sherrod Brown</a>, a Democrat, holds the state's other U.S. Senate seat.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_election_in_Ohio,2020" title="Presidential election in Ohio, 2020" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">2020</a>, Donald Trump (R) defeated Joe Biden (D) in Ohio 53.3% to 45.2%. In <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_election_in_Ohio,2016" title="Presidential election in Ohio, 2016" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">2016</a>, Trump defeated <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Hillary Clinton</a> in Ohio 51.7% to 43.6%.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Neil_Patel#Campaign_themes" title="Neil Patel" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Neil Patel</a> (<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican_Party" title="Republican Party" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">R</a>) and <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mark_Pukita#Campaign_themes" title="Mark Pukita" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Mark Pukita</a> (<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican_Party" title="Republican Party" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">R</a>) completed <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Ballotpedia%27s_Candidate_Connection" title="Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey</a>. Click their names to view their responses.</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><h2 times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" line-height="line-height" em="em" margin-top="margin-top" margin-bottom="margin-bottom" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></strong></h2><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/07/28/alecs-annual-meeting-queues-up-fights-over-federal-powers-fossil-fuels-big-tech-labor-rights-and-the-gops-culture-wars/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/07/28/alecs-annual-meeting-queues-up-fights-over-federal-powers-fossil-fuels-big-tech-labor-rights-and-the-gops-culture-wars/</a></font></div><h2 times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" line-height="line-height" em="em" margin-top="margin-top" margin-bottom="margin-bottom" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></strong></h2><h2 times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" line-height="line-height" em="em" margin-top="margin-top" margin-bottom="margin-bottom" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Special Program to Work on Radical Rewrite of U.S. Constitution</font></strong></h2><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">ALEC is extending its conference well into the evening on Friday this year to hold an "interactive academy" on rewriting the U.S. Constitution</span>. Attendees will "learn how an Article V amendments convention will actually play out," and "cast their ballots to decide which ideas to pursue," an <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21018436-alec-academy-article-v-and-bba-tickets-fri-jul-30-2021" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">invite</a> obtained by CMD details.</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of the goals of the tutorial appears to be to convince lawmakers that a runaway convention can be prevented, despite expert opinions that this is impossible.</font></b></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">"Once you have the convention, it is subject to nobody's control," Georgetown University Law Professor David Super <a href="https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-constitutions-scott-walker-politics-business-0079f922a810f82336a64b4ac6a3a214" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">told</a> the AP. "It makes its own agenda. It makes its own voting rules that decides how long it lasts and how far it goes</span>."</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>At the 2020 Annual Meeting, former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) <a href="https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-constitutions-scott-walker-politics-business-0079f922a810f82336a64b4ac6a3a214" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">detailed</a> a legal strategy to force a convention to rewrite the nation's founding document even though at the time only 28 of 34 states needed had resolutions calling for one pending</b>. </font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Former State Rep. Ken Ivory (R-UT) will moderate the event, while<b> U.S. Rep. Yvette Herrell, </b>Prof. Robert Natelson, David Biddulph, former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker, and Dr. Barry Poulson will present.</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ALEC is already pushing constitutional convention calls for a balanced budget amendment and sweeping new limits on federal powers, but meeting attendees will also have the opportunity to consider <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">a newly proposed convention call for a package of tax and fiscal reforms, including "abolishing the existing Internal Revenue Code," called the <a href="https://www.alec.org/model-policy/application-under-article-v-of-the-u-s-constitution-to-propose-an-amendment-to-require-fiscal-limitations-and-accountability-for-the-legislative-and-executive-branches-of-the-national-government/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">Application Under Article V of the U.S. Constitution to Propose an Amendment to Require Fiscal Limitations and Accountability for the Legislative and Executive Branches of the National Government</a>. </span></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The model application also seeks to combine the states that pass it with other balanced budget amendment convention calls in an attempt to reach the 34 states needed to convene a constitutional convention.</font></p><h2 times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" line-height="line-height" em="em" margin-top="margin-top" margin-bottom="margin-bottom" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Protecting Fossil Fuel Interests and Other Climate Harming Measures</font></strong></h2><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ALEC politicians will once again consider model bills to protect fossil fuel interests and polluters.</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Meeting attendees will debate a number of <b>policies framed around ending "energy discrimination." </b>The radical <a href="https://www.alec.org/model-policy/energy-discrimination-elimination-act/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">Energy Discrimination Elimination Act</a> would punish financial institutions and other companies that cease to do business with fossil fuel companies by barring the state from investing in them and denying them state business. The policy also includes an anti-boycott measure which prohibits government contractors from boycotting energy companies, even asking for "written verification" from companies stating that they "will not boycott energy companies during the term of the contract."</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This model, as well as the <a href="https://www.alec.org/model-policy/affordable-abundant-reliable-electricity-act/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">Affordable, Abundant, Reliable Electricity Act</a>, which seeks to protect all energy producers in the name of maintaining a reliable electrical grid, are being lobbied for by <b>Randy Eminger, </b>executive director of the Energy Policy Network,</span> an <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21018441-alec-model-bills-supporting-coal-based-power-email-from-coal-lobbyist-june-24-2021" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">email</a> obtained by CMD details.</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">An advocate for "</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">clean coal," Eminger describes his mission at Energy Policy Network</span> as, "to support the continued use of coal-fueled power," in the email, and notes that "four other comrades from the industry" will be at the ALEC conference as well.</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">In keeping with ALEC's <a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/07/12/alec-extreme-exxon-long-term-alec-board-member-dumps-alec-climate-denial-policy%e2%80%8b/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">climate-denial history</a> and pay-to-play work for fossil fuel giants, ALEC lawmakers will also vote on resolutions to <a href="https://www.alec.org/model-policy/resolution-supporting-reliable-and-affordable-energy/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">oppose any government action to reduce carbon dioxide emissions</a>, and <a href="https://www.alec.org/model-policy/resolution-to-protect-market-access-for-all-electricity-generators/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">oppose any restrictions on the use of fossil fuels to produce electricity</a>.</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Indeed, ALEC is even proposing a model bill, the <a href="https://www.alec.org/model-policy/safeguarding-greenhouse-gas-regulatory-authority-act/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">Safeguarding Greenhouse Gas Regulatory Authority Act</a>, to bar any state agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions or entering into any regional compact without "specific legislative authorization.”</span> </font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The <a href="https://www.alec.org/model-policy/resolution-urging-states-to-establish-electric-vehicle-charging-stations-as-a-competitive-market-free-from-utility-commission-regulation/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">Resolution Urging States to Establish<b> Electric Vehicle</b> Charging Stations as a Competitive Market Free From Utility Commission Regulation</a> urges state utility commissions to forbid "regulated utilities from using electric customer funds to build its own fleet of electric charging stations," thereby removing crucial funds to expand the infrastructure a larger fleet of electric cars will need in the future. This will have the intended consequence of forcing people to continue driving gas-guzzling vehicles for longer than necessary.</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">ALEC is also introducing another preemption model bill around plastics, the <a href="https://www.alec.org/model-policy/act-to-establish-statewide-uniformity-for-essential-plastic-regulations/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">Act to Establish Statewide Uniformity for Essential Plastic Regulations</a>. Spun as a policy to ensure "essential" plastic products are available, the proposed bill would bar municipalities from banning or taxing plastic food wrappers and plastic water bottles.</span> The measure follows a 2015 <b>American City County Exchange</b> (an ALEC offshoot) <a href="https://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/03/13060/barring-plastic-bag-bans-another-alec-bill-takes-aim-local-democracy" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">resolution</a> that calls on local government not to regulate many <b>single-use products, </b>including, "reusable bags, disposable bags, boxes, cups, and bottles that are made of cloth, paper, plastic, extruded polystyrene, or similar materials."</font></p><h2 times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" line-height="line-height" em="em" margin-top="margin-top" margin-bottom="margin-bottom" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Regulating Big Tech?...</font></span></h2><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ref email</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">eric Burlison </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From: Randy Eminger <randyeminger gmail.com="gmail.com">Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 4:04 PM To: Eric Burlison Cc: 'Michael Gibbons'</randyeminger></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><randyeminger gmail.com="gmail.com"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></randyeminger></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><randyeminger gmail.com="gmail.com"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b> Subject: ALEC model bills supporting Coal-based power Attachments: ALEC - Energy Discrimination Model Bill for 2021.</b>docx; ALEC - Reliable Resilience Electricity Act.docx </font></randyeminger></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><randyeminger gmail.com="gmail.com"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></randyeminger></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><randyeminger gmail.com="gmail.com"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sen. Burlison – I’m reaching out to you to 1) introduce myself and 2) let you know that two model bills that you may be interested in, have been introduced for consideration by the<b> ALEC Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Taskforce </b>in <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Salt Lake</span>. As executive director of the Energy Policy Network my mission is to support the continued use of coal-fueled power. </font></randyeminger></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><randyeminger gmail.com="gmail.com"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></randyeminger></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><randyeminger gmail.com="gmail.com"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I’ve worked with Mike Gibbons on several issues and he wanted to make sure you were briefed on my initiative at the upcoming ALEC conference. Two model bills (attached) have been <b>introduced a Texas (Rep. Dennis Price) and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Arizona legislator (Rep. Chris Finchem)</span>.</b></font></randyeminger></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><randyeminger gmail.com="gmail.com"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></randyeminger></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><randyeminger gmail.com="gmail.com"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1) One deals with financial discrimination being placed on banks and lending institutions that loan funds to fossil fuel companies. 2) The second one addresses the need for maintaining a reliable and resilient electric grid. We could use your help in promoting these two model bills. I will be in Salt Lake along with four other comrades from industry. I would welcome meeting you and grabbing a cup of coffee. Randy Eminger Executive Director Energy Policy Network<b> (806) 674-7079</b></font></randyeminger></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>aFFORDABLE, RELIABLE, AND RESILIENT ELECTRICITY ACT</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Policy Status</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Type: Model Policy Status: Final Date Introduced: July 29, 2021 Date Finalized: August 25, 2021</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Issues</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Energy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Task Forces</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Energy, Environment and Agriculture</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Summary</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>AN ACT directing the electric utility regulatory agency to develop rules and procedures promoting an affordable, reliable and resilient electric grid that meets peak net load and peak demand, including during extreme weather events.[ercot wind texas?]</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">AFFORDABLE, RELIABLE, AND RESILIENT ELECTRICITY ACT</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• “Affordable” means that the lowest cost means of providing electricity is used, <b>factoring in the true and total cost of each generation source.[THEY DON'T MEAN CANCER AND RESP DISEASE]</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• “Reliable” means that load shedding events are extremely rare and that there are no system wide power shortages or <b>brownouts for more than a few hours once every 10 years.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">• “On demand power” otherwise known as “dispatchable” power, means electricity from sources whose output is <b>not weather dependent </b>and can be controlled to meet changes in demand.[COAL NUKE ANGA]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• “Intermittent generation”, also known as non-dispatchable power, means electric generation that that varies minute-to-minute based on weather conditions.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• “Firming power” means <b>electric systems that provide at least 48 hours of back-up power</b> to “firm” intermittent generation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• “Peak net load” is the estimated peak demand minus the minimum predicted level of intermittent generation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• “Reserve margin” means the amount of on-demand and firming power needed to meet peak net load.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MODEL LEGISLATION</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1. The electric utility regulatory agency shall develop rules and procedures to ensure that the electric grid within the state, or to which the state’s grid is interconnected, is affordable, reliable, and resilient.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2. The grid will be considered affordable, reliable, and resilient if:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">a. Electricity is provided with the lowest total cost factoring in the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">true and total cost of competing power generation resources, including the fiscal costs of <b>direct and indirect subsidies,</b> and the <b>cost of transmission[ROOFTOP SOLAR]</b>, firming power, and other system costs necessary</span> to integrate a given generation resource without sacrificing grid reliability or resilience.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">b. It maintains a minimum reserve margin of 15%; and</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">c. Generation resources serving the grid meet continuous operating requirements for summer and winter peaks, including extreme weather events that necessitate on-site fuel storage, dual fuel capability, or fuel supply arrangements to ensure winter performance for several days.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3. Intermittent generation shall be required to provide firming power up to their average output level during periods of peak net load, and the cost of that firming shall be attributed to or otherwise included in the <b>rate structure consistent with cost-causation principles.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4. The minimum reserve margin shall be a primary consideration of the electricity regulatory agency when retiring or adding electric generation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5. That the state (AGENCY) coordinate with regional transmission organizations to ensure and develop policies reflected above which provide reliable, dispatchable power for the region in an effective and consistent manner.</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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