Reply #398: NV ALEC and NPRI Outsider Influence in Nevada in the Nevada View Aug 25 - LIST of NV ALEC Members [View All]

Where does the GOP get all this great and fabulous anti-teacher and anti-public school legislation? Do you think the Nevada conservatives are sitting around preparing for the next legislative session right now? Does the Nevada GOP write this conservative legislation for our state based on their constituency and the peoples’ needs in Nevada?

Naw, they aren’t that bright, they must be getting it from somewhere else, but where?

I’m kind of thinking they are getting these great ideas from outside of Nevada. I think it’s coming from a place far away named ALEC or American Legislative Exchange Council- the place of “model conservative legislation”. ALEC writes it up and inserts their corporation friendly, business based ideas into our Nevada law with the aid of the Nevada GOP who belong to ALEC.

Powerful Nevada GOP legislators have belonged or currently belong to ALEC.
Bill Raggio even won an award.
Barbara Cegavske loves ALEC. She even fought Ben Kieckhefer for a big job in ALEC.
Dean Rhoads is being watched.
Greg Brower hangs out with ALEC too.

Here is another list of Nevada politicians involved in ALEC (LINK to older ALEC Report from 2006):
http://alecwatch.org/members.PDF

ALEC makes old-fashioned lobbying obsolete. Once legislators return to their state with corporate-sponsored ALEC legislation in hand, the legislators themselves become “super-lobbyists” for ALEC’s corporate agenda, cutting out the middleman. Yet ALEC enjoys a 501(c)(3) classification, which allows it to keep its tax-exempt status while accepting grants from foundations, corporations, and other donors.
Recently one such ALEC lobbyist was actually using Nevada as an example on video – he doesn’t live here, but he most likely writes our laws (in effect lobbying from afar). Like we didn’t have enough problems with ALEC . . . we also have a nasty little legislative NON-PROFIT lobbying machine NPRI. They are a branch of State Policy Network, a national group that creates legislation elsewhere and imports it into Nevada. They are fully funded and even had a special summer program for Koch fellows.

Both ALEC and NPRI get their legislation from “Outsiders”, most of whom haven’t never even stepped foot inside Nevada.
They aren’t people who live in Nevada. They don’t know us. They don’t have children attending our schools. What business do they have, coming up with laws for my state? Especially laws that hurt our public schools. How is anything they write going to be good for Nevada? They don’t live here or work here.