Subject: [big campaign] IOWA IS LIVE: **RELEASE** ALEC Exposed in Iowa: New Report Details the Impact of Right-Wing Organization in Iowa Legislature
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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:14:48 -0400
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Three cheers to all who put so much work into the Iowa ALEC report and
today's roll out (please pile on like crazy y'all).

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From: Matt Sinovic <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:04 PM
Subject: **RELEASE** ALEC Exposed in Iowa: New Report Details the Impact of
Right-Wing Organization in Iowa Legislature
To: [email-masked]

*For Immediate Release  Contact: Matt Sinovic
March 12th, 2013  (515) 423-0530

ALEC Exposed in Iowa: New Report Details the Impact of Right-Wing
Organization in Iowa Legislature

Read the full report online: http://bit.ly/aleciniowa

Des Moines, Iowa -- A new report was released today, entitled ALEC Exposed
in Iowa: How Corporate Influence Subverts our Democratic Process. The
report provides research about the background of the American Legislative
Exchange Council, or ALEC, and details the organization’s influence on Iowa
lawmakers and the legislative process in Iowa. The report was jointly
issued by Progress Iowa, Center for Media and Democracy, Common Cause,
People for the American Way, and ProgressNow.

“ALEC is directly influencing Iowa’s elected officials and cutting citizens
out of the process,” said Matt Sinovic, executive director of Progress
Iowa. “We encourage every Iowan to read the report, then contact their
elected representatives to ask that they cut ties with ALEC immediately.”

Key findings in the report include:

   - The secretive nature of ALEC’s taxpayer-funded membership in Iowa due
   to a lack of transparency in the Iowa legislature -- including the fact
   that many legislators may be members without their knowledge
   - A detailed listing of the more than $500,000 in campaign donations
   from ALEC member corporations to ALEC members in Iowa, including more than
   $200,000 to Governor Terry Branstad, a founding member of ALEC
   - Examples of several ALEC ‘model’ bills, written side by side with
   corporate interests, then introduced by Iowa legislators
   - Recommended actions to be taken by citizens, reporters, and
   legislators to further expose ALEC’s influence in Iowa

ALEC Exposed in Iowa was released at an event held in the state capitol
today, featuring local and national leaders speaking out about the
organization. Lisa Graves, the executive director of the Center for Media
and Democracy and publisher of ALECexposed.org, Senator Joe Bolkcom, chair
of the national Progressive States Network, and Peter Fisher, research
director for the Iowa Policy Project, all participated on an expert panel
about ALEC, a group that has been described as “stealth lobbyists” for its
clandestine pursuit of a corporate agenda across the country.

To read the full report released today, visit: http://bit.ly/aleciniowa

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