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Texas Public Policy Foundation Rushes to Defend ALEC
Texas Public Policy Foundation Rushes to Defend ALEC
Phillip Martin - May 17, 2012
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is in crisis communications mode, and they've managed to bring in the Texas Public Policy Foundation - their home away from home in Texas - to their defense. Read more about the close ties between these two corporate bill factories below. Read More »
Related Topics: ALEC,ALEC Exposed
Let's be honest about insurance rate hikes
Let's be honest about insurance rate hikes
Mark Corcoran - May 16, 2012
Thanks to President Obama and the Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare, Texans should be protected from unfair and unjustified insurance rate hikes. The Affordable Care Act calls for the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) to automatically review any insurance rate hike 10% or more to determine whether or not it's a justified increase... Read More »
Related Topics: Texas Well and Healthy,ACA
Sen. Hutchison Struggles With Facts About Judicial Nominations
Sen. Hutchison Struggles With Facts About Judicial Nominations
Mark Corcoran - May 14, 2012
Earlier this month U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison got into a back-and-forth debate via letters to the editor (LTE) in the Forth Worth Star-Telegram with Glenn Sugameli (Staff Attorney, Defends of Wildlife) regarding the issue of judicial nominations. It appears from the back-and-forth that Sen. Hutchison either doesn't understand the issue ... Read More »
Related Topics: Judicial Nominations,TFJ,Kay Bailey Hutchison

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This one’s in the Wall Street Journal via Joshua Treviño at the Texas Public Policy Foundation: “We at the Texas Public Policy Foundation are members of the American Legislative Exchange Council, otherwise known as ALEC, and we’re proud of it.” ALEC’s been under fire in recent months and actually retreated from social issues just as several... Read More »
Progress Texas Responds to TPPF op-ed defending ALEC
From Matt Glazer, Executive Director of Progress Texas: "We want good jobs and a strong economy for Texas families, critical to economic freedom, which is why Progress Texas joins 14 corporations and 43 elected officials to reject TPPF and ALEC's harmful and out of touch corporate agenda." "In 2010, Texas Public Policy Foundation received over a... Read More »
Texans to join in lobbying for up-or-down votes on judicial nominations
Chris Elliott, a shareholder in Austin’s Dougherty, Hearon & Moody, will be among four Texas lawyers and 150 others from 27 states descending on the nation’s capital on May 7 to participate in what organizers are calling “a day of discussions,” about unfilled judicial vacancies, according to a statement the group released May 3. The lawyers... Read More »