Date: 04/15/2012
Virginia Supporters,
We’ve been following the recent articles on the group ALEC American Legislative Exchange Conference for a few weeks now and we’ve learned by following a link in one of them (http://alecexposed.org/wiki/Bills_related_to_Guns,_Prisons,_Crime,_and_Immigration) that ALEC wrote and lobbied for the following legislation:
7E0 ALEC Model Legislation to Pursue and Control Child Predators Exposed
7E1 An Act Concerning the Release of a Registered Sex Offender into the Community Exposed
7E4 Obscenity and Child Pornography Act Exposed
7E5 Sexual Offenses Against Children Act Exposed
7E6 Statute of Limitations for Offenses Against Children Act
7D6 Minimum-Mandatory Sentencing Act Exposed
7D7 Open Parole Hearings Act Exposed
7D8 Remote Video Court Appearances Act Exposed
7D11 Truth in Sentencing Act Exposed
Former National ALEC Chairman is Virginia Speaker of the House William Howell.
Virginia Legislators with ALEC ties:
o 10.46 Virginia Legislators with ALEC Ties
• 10.46.1 House of Delegates
• 10.46.2 Senate
Each article or opinion piece below has a new and interesting fact about ALEC or their influence here in Virginia. They claim to be a non-partisan group but once you read their issues, what bills they write and see who the Legislators sponsoring their bills are there is no way they can claim to be non-partisan. We suggest you take a few minutes to read them all as well as looking to see if your representatives are listed as ALEC supporters.
We’ve learned that our own Delegate and Senator are ALEC sponsors.
RSOL of Virginia
Executive Director
Some Recent Articles:
Exposing ALEC: How Conservative-Backed State Laws Are All Connected, April 14, 2012:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/04/exposing-alec-how-conservative-backed-state-laws-are-all-connected/255869/
Virginia House Speaker William Howell Said Conservative Group ALEC is ‘Under Attack’ by Liberals, April 12, 2012:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/virginia-house-speaker-william-howell-said-conservative-group-alec-is-under-attack-by-liberals/2012/04/12/gIQAD5hrDT_story.html
Opinion: ALEC Goes as Another Example of an Incorporated Democracy, April 9, 2012:
http://www.marshallparthenon.com/opinion/alec-goes-as-another-example-of-an-incorporated-democracy-1.2726900
ALEC’s Secret Influence on State Laws, Legislators, April 5, 2012:
http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/04/05/alecs-secret-influence-on-state-laws-legislators/
Opinion: Lobbyists, Guns and Money, March 25, 2012:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/opinion/krugman-lobbyists-guns-and-money.html
The Story Behind the Score
http://www.stateintegrity.org/virginia_story_subpage
Laws Ghostwritten by Conservative Group, Activists Say, March 19, 2012:
http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/article/20120319/NEWS/703199997/1117/laws-ghostwritten-by-conservative-group-activists-say&template=fairfaxTimes
Conservative Group Scrutinized, January 3, 2012:
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2012/jan/03/tdmet01-conservative-group-scrutinized-ar-1582946/