Subject: [big campaign] Iowa: TODAY: Local, National Leaders to Discuss ALEC's Influence in the Iowa Legislature
From: Aniello Alioto <[email-masked]>
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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:54:53 -0400
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Get ready for the pile ons y'all... Iowa is about to become a lot more fun
today!

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From: Matt Sinovic <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 9:21 AM
Subject: TODAY: Local, National Leaders to Discuss ALEC's Influence in the
Iowa Legislature
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***New Research Report -- ALEC Exposed in Iowa -- to be released at Noon
event today*
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For Immediate Release  Contact: Matt Sinovic
March 12th, 2013  (515) 423-0530

ALEC Exposed in Iowa: Local, National Leaders to Discuss ALEC’s Influence
in the Iowa Legislature

New research report to be released at Noon, detailing ALEC’s impact in Iowa

Des Moines, Iowa -- Local and national leaders will speak out today about
the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, and its influence on
Iowa’s legislative process. 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, will attend and
participate 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.

In partnership with Center for Media and Democracy and Common Cause, the
event will feature a screening of the Bill Moyers program “United States of
ALEC” and a new research report entitled “ALEC Exposed in Iowa,” scheduled
for release on Tuesday. Key findings in the report include:

   - 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
   - The secretive nature of ALEC’s taxpayer-funded membership in Iowa due
   to a lack of transparency in the Iowa legislature
   - Examples of ALEC ‘model’ bills, written by and for corporate
   interests, then introduced by Iowa legislators
   - Ongoing efforts to shed light on the influence of ALEC in Iowa

WHO: Lisa Graves; Executive Director of Center for Media and Democracy
(ALECExposed.org)

 Joe Bolkcom; State Senator and Chair, Progressive States Network

 Peter Fisher; Research Director, Iowa Policy Project

 Matt Sinovic; Executive Director, Progress Iowa

WHAT: Screening of “United States of ALEC” Bill Moyers program

 Expert panel available to discuss ALEC in Iowa

WHERE: Iowa State Capitol, Room 22

 Des Moines, Iowa

WHEN: TODAY, Tuesday, March 12th, 12:00 - 1:00 PM

ALEC is a Washington DC based group funded almost entirely by corporations,
big business associations, insurance companies, and the super-rich. ALEC
was formed in 1973 by a group of conservative activists who came together
to advance a national corporate agenda in state legislatures across the
country. Among the founders of ALEC was now-Governor Terry Branstad.

ALEC is made up of more than 300 corporate and 2,000 legislative members,
the overwhelming majority of them Republicans, who work outside of the
public view to approve ‘model’ legislation to increase corporate profits at
public expense and promote a conservative national agenda.

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