Liddy Bourne

<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">Sandy Liddy Bourne</h1><div>sorta forgot about, but OMG:</div><div>
</div><div>=ALEC OFFERS LEGISLATION TO FIGHT DOMESTIC TERROR BY ANIMAL AND ECO-EXTREMIST GROUPS “Let’s Call a Terrorist, a ‘Terrorist,’” Says ALEC 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2003
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
BOB ADAMS (202) 742-8516

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Environmental and animal rights groups who commit acts of terror are now targets themselves of a new model bill offered by the bipartisan American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

The Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act (AETA) creates penalties for persons encouraging, financing, assisting or engaged in acts of animal and ecological terrorism.

“Most states make no legal distinction between a disgruntled youth vandalizing a public park and an organized eco-terrorist torching a family’s home,” said Sandy Liddy Bourne, advisor to ALEC’s Homeland Security Working Group. “The legislation specifically addresses actions that are designed to intimidate, coerce, invoke fear, or other forms of terror that are committed in the name of environmental or animal rights activism.”

The Act, itself, is detailed in a new publication, Animal & Ecological Terrorism in America, published by ALEC’s Homeland Security Working Group.

“One difficulty in using basic vandalism, trespassing, and destruction of property laws lies in the states’ inability to enter asset forfeiture proceedings," said Bourne.[dad is go for head shot]

Threats of domestic terrorism in the name of animal and/or environmental rights are largely attributed to two domestic terror organizations: The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). Considered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to be the most dangerous of domestic terror threats, these organizations facilitate ideologically driven vandalism, property damage, theft, and general terrorism against individuals, groups, and governmental agencies that do not fit their vision of so-called environmental equity.

“This legislation takes more than ‘a bite out of crime,’ it jails and penalizes animal and eco-terrorists and their sympathetic financial agents for what they are--domestic terrorists,” said Bourne.

According to the FBI, animal and ecological terrorists have committed more than 600 criminal acts since 1996. In recent months, ELF and ALF have claimed responsibility for destroying several homes in Washington state, California, and Michigan, releasing 10,000 minks from a farm in Washington state, and attacking three California car dealerships. The groups boast of carrying out similar actions since the mid-1990s, resulting in nearly $50 million in damage.

 For more information contact Bob Adams at (202) 466-3800

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Alexandra "Sandy" Liddy Bourne runs an oil industry front group called the American Energy Freedom Center with former ExxonMobil lobbyist Randy Randol. Bourne is a longtime affiliate of both the Heartland Institute and ALEC, currently formerly a Heartland senior fellow for environmental issues and formerly Heartland's vice president for policy and strategy.  Prior to joining the Heartland Institute, Sandy Liddy Bourne was ALEC's Director of the Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Task Force for the from 1999-2004, before being promoted to Director of Legislation and Policy, where she oversaw all of ALEC's task forces and helped boost state enactment of ALEC's corporate bills from 11 percent to 20 percent. In Bourne's time directing ALEC's environmental task force, the "Environmental Literacy Improvement Act" was created and approved by ALEC's board in June, 2000.

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<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/alec-model-bill-behind-push-require-climate-denial-instruction-schools">http://www.desmogblog.com/alec-model-bill-behind-push-require-climate-denial-instruction-schools</a>

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The <a target="blank" href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=41">Heartland Institute</a> [42] was formerly heavily funded by ExxonMobil and <a target="blank" href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/heartland-institute-hi/">Koch Industries</a> [43], just <a target="blank" href="http://www.thenation.com/article/161973/koch-connection">like ALEC</a> [44] was at the time that Liddy Bourne's committee devised the "<a target="blank" href="http://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/8/8c/3F1-Environmental_Literacy_Improvement_Act_Exposed.pdf" style=" color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Environmental Literacy Improvement Act</a> [15]." These two corporations are infamous for their funding of climate change "skeptic" think tanks and front groups.

<h3>A Bill In the Corporate Polluter's Interest</h3>

The money paper trail for this ALEC model bill runs deep, to put it bluntly.

When the ALEC model bill was adopted in 2000 by ALEC's Natural Resources Task Force, the head of that committee was <a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sandy_Liddy_Bourne">Sandy Liddy Bourne</a>, who after that stint, became Director of Legislation and Policy for ALEC. She is now with the <a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute">Heartland Institute</a> as vice-president for policy strategy. In <a target="_blank" href="http://heartland.org/alexandra-sandy-liddy-bourne">Sandy Liddy Bourne's bio on the Heartland website</a>, she boasts that "Under her leadership, 20 percent of ALEC model bills were enacted by one state or more, up from 11 percent."

<a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SourceWatch">SourceWatch</a> states that Liddy Bourne "…is the daughter of former Nixon aide and convicted Watergate criminal G. Gordon Liddy, who spent more than 52 months in prison for his part in the Watergate burglary…[and her] speech at the Heartland Institute's 2008 International Conference on Climate Change was titled, '<a target="blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V1_7rnzxx0">The Kyoto Legacy; The Progeny of a Carbon Cartel in the States</a>."

The <a target="blank" href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=41">Heartland Institute</a> was formerly heavily funded by ExxonMobil and <a target="blank" href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/heartland-institute-hi/">Koch Industries</a>, just <a target="blank" href="http://www.thenation.com/article/161973/koch-connection">like ALEC</a> was at the time that Liddy Bourne's committee devised the "<a target="blank" href="http://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/8/8c/3F1-Environmental_Literacy_Improvement_Act_Exposed.pdf" style=" color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Environmental Literacy Improvement Act</a>." These two corporations are infamous for their funding of climate change "skeptic" think tanks and front groups.

Today, the <a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Energy,Environment_and_Agriculture_Task_Force#Corporate.2C_Trade_or_Other_Group_Members">corporate polluter members</a> of ALEC's <a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Energy,Environment_and_Agriculture_Task_Force#Corporate.2C_Trade_or_Other_Group_Members">Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force</a> include representatives from <a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Electric_Power">American Electric Power</a>, the <a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fraser_Institute">Fraser Institute</a>, the <a target="blank" href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cato_Institute">Cato Institute</a>, the <a target="blank" href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Competitive_Enterprise_Institute">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a>, the <a target="blank" href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_for_Energy_Research">Institute for Energy Research</a>, the <a target="blank" href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mackinac_Center_for_Public_Policy">Mackinac Center for Public Policy</a>, the <a target="blank" href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute">Heartland Institute</a>, and the <a target="blank" href="http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Coalition_for_Clean_Coal_Electricity">American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity</a>, to name several.

<h3>Getting Them While They're Young: A Cynical Man</h3>

Source: <a href="http://s.tt/199ih">Desmogblog</a> (<a href="http://s.tt/199ih">http://s.tt/199ih</a>)

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<h3>A Bill In the Corporate Polluter's Interest</h3>

The money paper trail for this ALEC model bill runs deep, to put it bluntly.

When the ALEC model bill was adopted in 2000 by ALEC's Natural Resources Task Force, the head of that committee was <a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sandy_Liddy_Bourne">Sandy Liddy Bourne</a>, who after that stint, became Director of Legislation and Policy for ALEC. She is now with the <a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute">Heartland Institute</a> as vice-president for policy strategy. In <a target="_blank" href="http://heartland.org/alexandra-sandy-liddy-bourne">Sandy Liddy Bourne's bio on the Heartland website</a>, she boasts that "Under her leadership, 20 percent of ALEC model bills were enacted by one state or more, up from 11 percent."

<h3>Getting Them While They're Young: A Cynical Man</h3>

Source: <a href="http://s.tt/199ih">Desmogblog</a> (<a href="http://s.tt/199ih">http://s.tt/199ih</a>)

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Alexandra "Sandy" Liddy Bourne is the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute" title="Heartland Institute">Heartland Institute</a>'s vice-president for policy strategy. She is the daughter of former Nixon aide and convicted Watergate criminal <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=G._Gordon_Liddy" title="G. Gordon Liddy">G. Gordon Liddy</a>, who spent more than 52 months in prison for his part in the Watergate burglary.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sandy_Liddy_Bourne#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a> She serves as the conservative <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Think_tank" title="Think tank" class="mw-redirect">think tank</a>'s Washington, D.C. media spokesperson and liaison to elected officials, donors, and allies. "She authors media statements and commissions and edits original research on the major issues of the day, particularly those concerning energy and environmental regulation," according to Heartland. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sandy_Liddy_Bourne#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a>

Bourne's speech at the Heartland Institute's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=2008_International_Conference_on_Climate_Change" title="2008 International Conference on Climate Change" class="mw-redirect">2008 International Conference on Climate Change</a> was titled, "The Kyoto Legacy; The Progeny of a Carbon Cartel in the States." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sandy_Liddy_Bourne#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a>

Bourne worked for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> and was credited with increasing enactment of ALEC's model legislation in states throughout the country.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sandy_Liddy_Bourne#cite_note-3" title="">[4]</a> She was named chair of ALEC's Energy, Environment, Natural Resources, and Agriculture Task Force in October 1999.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sandy_Liddy_Bourne#cite_note-4" title="">[5]</a> In 2004, after five years in that role, she became ALEC's Director of Legislation and Policy.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sandy_Liddy_Bourne#cite_note-5" title="">[6]</a>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute" title="Heartland Institute">Heartland Institute</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_2008_International_Conference_on_Climate_Change" title="The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change" class="mw-redirect">The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council">American Legislative Exchange Council</a></li>

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<h2>References</h2>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sandy_Liddy_Bourne#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> David Ellis <a href="http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20101978,00.html" class="external text" title="http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20101978,00.html" rel="nofollow">Keeping it in the Family</a>, People magazine, October 30, 1995</li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sandy_Liddy_Bourne#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> "<a href="http://www.heartland.org/NewYork08/ConferenceBios.pdf" class="external text" title="http://www.heartland.org/NewYork08/ConferenceBios.pdf" rel="nofollow">Conference speakers: 2008 International Conference on Climate Change (PDF)</a>," Heartland Institute, accessed March 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sandy_Liddy_Bourne#cite_ref-2" title="">↑</a> "<a href="http://www.heartland.org/NewYork08/ConferenceSchedule.pdf" class="external text" title="http://www.heartland.org/NewYork08/ConferenceSchedule.pdf" rel="nofollow">2008 International Conference on Climate Change (PDF)</a>," Heartland Institute, accessed March 2008</li>

<li id="cite_note-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sandy_Liddy_Bourne#cite_ref-3" title="">↑</a> The Heartland Institute <a href="http://www.heartland.org/environmentandclimate-news.org/profileresults.html?profile=3D861563EB68D7EBD65D9CB0698FE862&directory=26A394AD86DF0BB9C8E9925B64B54655" class="external text" title="http://www.heartland.org/environmentandclimate-news.org/profileresults.html?profile=3D861563EB68D7EBD65D9CB0698FE862&directory=26A394AD86DF0BB9C8E9925B64B54655" rel="nofollow">Experts: Mrs. Alexandra Sandra Liddy Bourne</a>, organizational web site profile page, accessed April 14, 2011</li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sandy_Liddy_Bourne#cite_ref-4" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19981206142347/http://www.alec.org/" class="external text" title="http://web.archive.org/web/19981206142347/http://www.alec.org/" rel="nofollow">Web archive of http://www.alec.org/viewpage.cfm?id=614&xsectionid=5</a>, Accessed July 19, 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sandy_Liddy_Bourne#cite_ref-5" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060602025207/http://www.alec.org/news/press-releases/press-releases-2004/september/alec-appoints-new-director-of-legislation-and-policy.html" class="external text" title="http://web.archive.org/web/20060602025207/http://www.alec.org/news/press-releases/press-releases-2004/september/alec-appoints-new-director-of-legislation-and-policy.html" rel="nofollow">ALEC Appoints New Director of Legislation and Policy Sandy Liddy Bourne To Lead Policy Department for State Legislators’ Organization</a>," ALEC press release, September 7, 2004.</li>

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<h2>A Bill In the Corporate Polluter's Interest</h2>

The money paper trail for this ALEC model bill runs deep, to put it bluntly.

When the ALEC model bill was adopted in 2000 by ALEC's Natural Resources Task Force, the head of that committee was <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sandy_Liddy_Bourne" title="reference on Sandy Liddy Bourne" target="self">Sandy Liddy Bourne</a>, who after that stint, became Director of Legislation and Policy for ALEC. She is now with the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute" title="reference on Heartland Institute" target="self">Heartland Institute</a> as vice-president for policy strategy. In <a href="http://heartland.org/alexandra-sandy-liddy-bourne" title="reference on Sandy Liddy Bourne's bio on the Heartland website" target="_blank">Sandy Liddy Bourne's bio on the Heartland website</a>, she boasts that, "under her leadership, 20 percent of ALEC model bills were enacted by one state or more, up from 11 percent."

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SourceWatch" title="reference on SourceWatch" target="self">SourceWatch</a> states that Liddy Bourne " ... is the daughter of former Nixon aide and convicted Watergate criminal G. Gordon Liddy, who spent more than 52 months in prison for his part in the Watergate burglary ... [and her] speech at the Heartland Institute's 2008 International Conference on Climate Change was titled, '<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V1_7rnzxx0" title="reference on The Kyoto Legacy; The Progeny of a Carbon Cartel in the States" target="blank">The Kyoto Legacy; The Progeny of a Carbon Cartel in the States</a>."

The <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=41" title="reference on Heartland Institute" target="blank">Heartland Institute</a> was formerly heavily funded by ExxonMobil and <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/heartland-institute-hi/" title="reference on Koch Industries" target="blank">Koch Industries</a>, just <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/161973/koch-connection" title="reference on like ALEC" target="blank">like ALEC</a> was at the time that Liddy Bourne's committee devised the "<a href="http://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/8/8c/3F1-Environmental_Literacy_Improvement_Act_Exposed.pdf" title="reference on Environmental Literacy Improvement Act" target="blank">Environmental Literacy Improvement Act</a>." These two corporations are infamous for their funding of climate change "skeptic" think tanks and front groups.

Today, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Energy,Environment_and_Agriculture_Task_Force#Corporate,Trade_or_Other_Group_Members" title="reference on corporate polluter members" target="self">corporate polluter members</a> of ALEC's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Energy,Environment_and_Agriculture_Task_Force#Corporate,Trade_or_Other_Group_Members" title="reference on Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force" target="self">Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force</a> include representatives from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Electric_Power" title="reference on American Electric Power" target="self">American Electric Power</a>, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fraser_Institute" title="reference on Fraser Institute" target="self">Fraser Institute</a>, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cato_Institute" title="reference on Cato Institute" target="self">Cato Institute</a>, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Competitive_Enterprise_Institute" title="reference on Competitive Enterprise Institute" target="self">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a>, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_for_Energy_Research" title="reference on Institute for Energy Research" target="self">Institute for Energy Research</a>, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mackinac_Center_for_Public_Policy" title="reference on Mackinac Center for Public Policy" target="self">Mackinac Center for Public Policy</a>, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute" title="reference on Heartland Institute" target="self">Heartland Institute</a>, and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Coalition_for_Clean_Coal_Electricity" title="reference on American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity" target="self">American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity</a>, to name several.

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<h1>Alexandra Liddy Bourne</h1>

<h2> Credentials</h2>

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<li>B.S.N.(Bachelor of Science in Nursing), College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York.</li>

<li>M.S.N., Catholic University of America.</li>

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Source: <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/alexandra-liddy-bourne#s1">[1]</a>

<h2> Background</h2>

Alexandra "Sandy" Liddy Bourne a senior fellow at the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute">Heartland Institute </a>where she addresses energy and environmental regulation.

She was the Heartland Institute's vice-president for policy and strategy from 2006 until December 2008 and acted as Heartland’s Washington DC media spokesman and liaison to Heartland’s Legislative Advisors (elected officials), donors, and allies. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/alexandra-liddy-bourne#s2">[2]</a>

Bourne was the past director of the Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Task Force for the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Legislative_Exchange_Council">American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)</a> and advisor to the ALEC Homeland Security Working Group. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/alexandra-liddy-bourne#s3">[3]</a>

She is the former Director of the Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Task Force, ALEC Member, Virginia Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services

Bourne authored the 2004 ALEC publication "'Sons-of-Kyoto' Legislation: Greenhouse Gas Regulation in the States," where she argued that the Kyoto Protocol and the movement behind it threatened to ruin the free market system and turn the global economy over to a "carbon cartel."

<h2>Stance on Climate Change</h2>

"Regardless of the scientific uncertainty and the economic costs, there is an orchestrated movement to force the federal government and the American public to implement Kyoto-like registration and develop a cap and trade carbon emission system. Ultimately, this system will create a national energy tax in the short term and has implications that may harm free trade in the future. The legacy that we may hand over to future generations is not one of individual choices in a free market system, but one of lost opportunities in a global market controlled by a carbon cartel." <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/alexandra-liddy-bourne#s4">[4]</a>

<h2>Key Quotes</h2>

"This is poor methodology and a dangerous precedent to use to protect public health in that it directs resources to potential threats and outliers in data as opposed to current environmental threats that are having a significant detrimental effect upon human health. There is no direct evidence that increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have had a significant impact in respiratory diseases or cardiovascular diseases." <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/alexandra-liddy-bourne#s5">[5]</a>

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<h2>Key Deeds</h2>

April, 2008

In 2008 Bourne <a target="_blank" href="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/15/heartland-vp-yankee-taxes-on-global-warming-will-lead-to-another-civil-war/">announced</a> that the implementation of climate legislation would burden the Southern States and lead to "another Civil War here in a short period of time, because the cost is going to go up." <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/alexandra-liddy-bourne#s6">[6]</a>

March, 2008

Bourne was a <a target="_blank" href="http://climateconference.heartland.org/alexandra-liddy-bourne/">speaker</a> at the Heartland Institute's First International Conference on Climate Change. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/alexandra-liddy-bourne#s7">[7]</a>

March, 2004

Bourne was a speaker at a NCPA Briefing on Global Warming titled "What Do We Really Know vs. What We Are Told." Other speakers included prominent climate change deniers David Legates, Myron Ebell, and Patrick Michaels. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/alexandra-liddy-bourne#s8">[8]</a>

<h2> Affiliations</h2>

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<li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute">The Heartland Institute</a> — <a target="blank" href="http://heartland.org/alexandra-sandy-liddy-bourne">Senior Fellow, Energy Policy</a>. Vice president for policy and strategy, 2006 - December 2008.<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/alexandra-liddy-bourne#s2"> [2]</a></li>

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<li><a target="blank" href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=164">The American Energy Freedom Center (AEFC) </a>— <a target="blank" href="http://www.energyfreedomcenter.org/2009/06/02/alexandra-liddy-bourne/">Executive Director</a>. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/alexandra-liddy-bourne#s1">[1]</a></li>

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<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Legislative_Exchange_Council">The American Legislative Exchange Council</a> — Past Director, Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Task Force. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/alexandra-liddy-bourne#s1">[1]</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/alexandra-liddy-bourne#s3">[3] </a></li>

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<li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Center_for_Policy_Analysis">National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA)</a> — <a target="blank" href="http://www.ncpa.org/environment/environment-experts">Environmental Expert</a>. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/alexandra-liddy-bourne#s9">[9]</a></li>

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<h2> Publications</h2>

A search of Google Scholar reveals that Alexandrea Liddy Bourne has never published an article in a peer-reviewed journal on any subject.

The following citation is the only item listed (referencing an article originally published with the American Legislative Exchange Council):

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<li>Alexandra Liddy Bourne. "Sons of Kyoto: Greenhouse Gas Regulation in the States" (<a target="_blank" href="http://heartland.org/sites/default/files/sites/all/modules/custom/heartland_migration/files/pdfs/14415.pdf">PDF</a>), American Legislative Exchange Council. Republished by the Heartland Institute. </li>

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<h2> Resources</h2>

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<a id="s1" name="s1"> </a>"<a target="_blank" href="http://www.energyfreedomcenter.org/2009/06/02/alexandra-liddy-bourne/">Alexandra Liddy Bourne</a>," American Energy Freedom Center.

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<a id="s2" name="s2"> </a>"<a target="_blank" href="http://heartland.org/alexandra-sandy-liddy-bourne">Heartland Experts: Alexandra (Sandy) Liddy Bourne</a>," The Heartland Institute. Accessed March 1, 2012.

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<a id="s3" name="s3"> </a>"<a target="_blank" href="http://www.ncpa.org/environment/alexandra-liddy-bourne">Alexandra Liddy Bourne</a>," Profile at the National Center for Policy Analysis. Accessed March 1, 2012.

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<a id="s4" name="s4"> </a>Alexandra Liddy Bourne. "Sons of Kyoto: Greenhouse Gas Regulation in the States" (<a target="_blank" href="http://heartland.org/sites/default/files/sites/all/modules/custom/heartland_migration/files/pdfs/14415.pdf">PDF</a>), American Legislative Exchange Council. Republished by the Heartland Institute.

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<a id="s5" name="s5"> </a>"<a target="_blank" href="http://72.10.55.160/policy-documents/comments-alexandra-liddy-bourne-rn-msn-epa%E2%80%99s-proposed-endangerment-finding">Comments of Alexandra Liddy Bourne, R.N., M.S.N, on EPA’s Proposed Endangerment Finding</a>," The Heartland Institute, June 23, 2009.

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<a id="s6" name="s6"> </a>"<a target="_blank" href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2008/04/15/21748/heartland-vp-yankee-taxes-on-global-warming-will-lead-to-another-civil-war/">Heartland VP: 'Yankee taxes' on global warming will lead to 'another Civil War'</a>," ThinkProgress, April 15, 2008.

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<a id="s7" name="s7"> </a>"<a target="_blank" href="http://climateconference.heartland.org/alexandra-liddy-bourne/">Alexandra Liddy Bourne</a>," International Conference on Climate Change (climateconference.heartland.org). Accessed March 1, 2012.

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<a id="s8" name="s8"> </a>"<a target="_blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060130221346/http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=29045">NCPA Earth Day Briefing on Global Warming: 'What Do We Really Know vs. What We Are Told'</a>," U.S. Newswire, April 20, 2004.

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<a id="s9" name="s9"> </a>"<a target="_blank" href="http://www.ncpa.org/environment/environment-experts">Environmental Experts</a>," The National Center for Policy Analysis. Accessed November 30, 2011.

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"<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alexandra_Liddy_Bourne">Sandra Liddy Bourne</a>," SourceWatch profile.

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Perhaps the most outrageous revelation of "Denialgate," the leak of internal Heartland Institute budget and fundraising documents detailing their 2012 work plan to obstruct global warming policy, is a project to develop school curricula to teach K-12 students that there is doubt over the causes and implications of global warming.

What hasn't been reported is the complementary role of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has peddled laws written by corporate lobbyists through state legislatures that make it easy for its dirty energy members, such as Exxon, Koch Industries and Peabody coal, to influence how climate science is presented to students. The so-called "Environmental Literacy Improvement Act," which has been introduced in seven states and became law in at least three, would establish a state-level council to oversee all scientific material presented to students, allowing companies to smother classroom science with K street politics. This council would notably exclude anyone with environmental science credentials, instead composing itself in the following proportions:

Environmental science experts excluded from Council (p. 1)

The exclusion of experts in "environmental science" is an indicator that ALEC wants the members of this council to appear to have more relevant expertise than they actually do.

Basically, it ensures that climatology will be underrepresented. Note that environmental science is interdisciplinary, open to a variety of natural science expertise in order to study complex natural systems that cannot be confined to a single topic of study. See our annotated version of the ALEC bill showing how ALEC's language can be used to peddle global warming denial in schools.

So where did this bill come from? We know that ALEC members include not only the Heartland Institute, but a who's who of dirty energy interests that stand to make money by denying climate change. More specifically, there appears to be a key industry operative who oversaw development of the ALEC bill. Her name is Sandy Liddy Bourne, the daughter of convicted Watergate criminal G. Gordon Liddy.

Alexandra "Sandy" Liddy Bourne runs an oil industry front group called the American Energy Freedom Center with former ExxonMobil lobbyist Randy Randol. Bourne is a longtime affiliate of both the Heartland Institute and ALEC, currently formerly a Heartland senior fellow for environmental issues and formerly Heartland's vice president for policy and strategy.  Prior to joining the Heartland Institute, Sandy Liddy Bourne was ALEC's Director of the Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Task Force for the from 1999-2004, before being promoted to Director of Legislation and Policy, where she oversaw all of ALEC's task forces and helped boost state enactment of ALEC's corporate bills from 11 percent to 20 percent. In Bourne's time directing ALEC's environmental task force, the "Environmental Literacy Improvement Act" was created and approved by ALEC's board in June, 2000.

While this ALEC bill was finalized, ALEC's Private Enterprise board chairman was Mike Morgan of Koch Industries. The Heartland Institute still promotes ALEC's "Environmental Literacy Improvement Act" on its website to this day.

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