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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 »