Madden, J Rep

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jerry_Madden" title="Jerry Madden">Jerry Madden</a> (R-TX)</li>

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Rep. Jerry Madden has represented Texas' District 67 since 1993. "Madden worked 11 years for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Texas_Instruments_Inc." title="Texas Instruments Inc.">Texas Instruments Inc.</a>, 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 <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Conference_of_State_Legislatures" title="National Conference of State Legislatures">National Conference of State Legislatures</a> ([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 <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Conference_of_State_Legislatures" title="National Conference of State Legislatures">National Conference of State Legislatures</a>'s Sentencing and Corrections Work Group."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Public_Safety_and_Elections_Task_Force#cite_note-32" title="">[33]</a>
<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Public_Safety_and_Elections_Task_Force#cite_note-32" title=""></a>ALECexposedPART ONE: New documents show that Koch Industries had a seat on the controversial “Public Safety and Elections Task Force” of the American Legislative Exchange Council as of at least 2011.

ALEC announced it was dropping that task force in the wake of the controversy over the tragic shooting of Trayvon Martin and so-called “Stand Your Ground” (SYG) laws. However, the co-leader of that task force, Rep. Jerry Madden (R-TX), revealed ALEC's announcement to be a PR maneuver when he reassured The Christian Post that his task force's work would continue through other ALEC task forces.

Koch Industries has vigorously defended ALEC, and has assailed reporting that noted that the company, led by billionaire brothers Charles and David, is a long-time funder and leader of ALEC and that ALEC has long advanced the NRA agenda through "model" gun bills, including Florida's controversial SYG law that was ratified by ALEC in 2005.

It turns out that Koch was a member of that ALEC task force in recent years, and that it was on the task force when the NRA was the private sector co-chair.  Moreover, Koch Industries had not one but two employees who were listed as “members” present for ALEC's "Public Safety and Elections" Task Force at the last annual task force summit.

Koch has said it had no involvement in the SYG law passed in Florida and then ratified by the ALEC criminal justice task force in 2005. The company, however, was a leader of ALEC in 2005, just as today, and its funding helps underwrite ALEC's operations and agenda. The various task forces Koch has served on over the past nearly two decades is not known, but now it has come to light that in at least 2010 and 2011 Koch was a member of ALEC's crime task force.

Two Koch Staffers at the Last ALEC Crime Task Force Summit Meeting

Site of ALEC's 2011 SummitSite of ALEC's 2011 SummitOn April 29, 2011, at Cincinnati’s Hilton Netherland Plaza Hotel, an historic building gilded just before the Great Depression, Jenny Kim and Jessie Rager--employees of Koch's lobbying arm--sat as two of the 16 “Private Sector Members” in attendance at the ALEC crime task force’s day-long meeting. As such, Koch constituted 1/8th of the private sector members considering model legislation and business that day.

Kim is the Associate General Counsel for “Political Law” at Koch Companies Public Sector, LLC, (KCPS) which employs over three dozen attorneys in Wichita, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere. She’s worked for Koch for almost four years, following stints at two law firms and in the White House Counsel’s Office in President George W. Bush's first term.

She’s been the point of contact for Koch’s lobby disclosure filings regarding the $2 to $3 million it has spent on other Koch employees directly lobbying Congress each year recently. Koch has lobbied on issues such whether companies should have to disclose their true owners, a permanent tax deferral for certain income from investment in foreign controlled companies, exemptions from the regulations of credit swaps in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reforms, legislation to bar the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases, and numerous bills affecting the pollution of Americans’ water. Rager is a paralegal for KCPS, but it’s not clear if Rager works for Kim or another lawyer.
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