{"id":14293,"date":"2015-09-19T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=14293"},"modified":"2015-08-30T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T22:14:10","slug":"zephyr-archives-peaceful-uprising-a-l-e-c-complicated-adversaries-jim-stiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/19\/zephyr-archives-peaceful-uprising-a-l-e-c-complicated-adversaries-jim-stiles\/","title":{"rendered":"(Zephyr Archives) \u2018PEACEFUL UPRISING\u2019 & \u2018A.L.E.C.\u2019\u2026 COMPLICATED ADVERSARIES \u2014Jim Stiles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"bondermanb&w\"<\/a>In part, PeaceUp wrote:<\/p>\n

\u201cALEC produces model legislation written by corporations and major industry lobby groups, then dishes out these bills to legislators from around the country…ALEC doesn\u2019t only influence environmental policy, of course\u2014it successfully pushes laws that suppress voter turnout, encourage racial profiling, and bust unions, just to name a few of ALEC\u2019s favorite causes. But ALEC has done a tremendous amount of environmental harm with its dozens of anti-environmental bills\u2026.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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But here\u2019s how complicated the \u2018ALEC Issue\u201d can be. Note that one of ALEC\u2019s members is Energy Future Holdings, based in Texas. According to SourceWatch.org<\/a>, \u201cEFH is a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Sano Blocker, an EFH lobbyist and Senior Vice President of Public Affairs, represents EFH on ALEC\u2019s corporate board as of 2011.\u201d<\/p>\n

EFH is owned in part by TPG Capital, a massive venture capital company whose founding partner is David Bonderman. Bonderman\u2019s personal wealth is estimated at $2 billion. TPG is heavily invested in resource extraction around the world. (http:\/\/www.tpg.com\/portfolio<\/a>)<\/p>\n

On February 29, 2012, \u201cOccupy Dallas \u202a#\u200e<\/span>F29\u202c<\/span><\/a>\u2013Shut Down the Corporations..National Day of Action\u201d protested in front of Energy Future Holdings\u2019 main office in Dallas, Texas. On its facebook page, one comment read: \u201cHow about a sign that says, \u2018Energy Future Holding\u201d are Kochsuckers\u2026just a thought. LOL\u2026but seriously.\u2019 Yet the Koch Brothers, known for their conservative views and affiliation with the Republican Party, have nothing to do with EFH. Bonderman usually aligns himself with the Democratic Party..<\/p>\n

Bonderman is also regarded by many within the mainstream environmental movement as one of America\u2019s most influential conservationists. He donates millions of dollars to \u201cgreen\u201d groups; The Salt Lake Tribune calls him \u201ca major financier of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.\u201d And he sits on the boards of several environmental organizations, including the Wilderness Society and the Grand Canyon Trust (GCT). In addition to Bonderman, the Trust boasts a substantial number of bankers, venture capitalists and financiers on its board.<\/p>\n

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EXCERPT: In part, PeaceUp wrote: \u201cALEC produces model legislation written by corporations and major industry lobby groups, then dishes out these bills to legislators from around the country…ALEC doesn\u2019t only influence environmental policy, of course\u2014it successfully pushes laws that suppress voter turnout, encourage racial profiling, and bust unions, just to name a few of ALEC\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14294,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14293\/revisions\/14294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}