Wyoming legislators with ties to ALEC

This list goes a long way toward explaining some of the more extreme laws proposed in this session of the Wyoming Legislature (last year's session, too). This is an updated list to the one we ran in August 2011. Thanks to Larry Kurtz at Interested Party for the update:

ALEC is not a lobby; it is not a front group. It is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, behind closed doors, corporations hand state legislators the changes to the law they desire that directly benefit their bottom line. Along with legislators, corporations have membership in ALEC. Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to approve “model” bills. They have their own corporate governing board which meets jointly with the legislative board. (ALEC says that corporations do not vote on the board.) They fund almost all of ALEC's operations.  

Participating legislators, overwhelmingly conservative Republicans, then bring those proposals home and introduce them in statehouses across the land as their own brilliant ideas and important public policy innovations—without disclosing that corporations crafted and voted on the bills. ALEC boasts that it has over 1,000 of these bills introduced by legislative members every year, with one in every five of them enacted into law. ALEC describes itself as a “unique,” “unparalleled” and “unmatched” organization. It might be right. It is as if a state legislature had been reconstituted, yet corporations had pushed the people out the door. Learn more at ALECexposed.org.

Wyoming Legislators with ALEC Ties

House of Representatives 

§  Rep. Peter Illoway (R-42), State Chairman
§  Rep. Allen Jaggi (R-18)
§  Rep. Lorraine Quarberg (R-28)
§  Rep. Richard L. Cannady (R-06), ALEC Civil Justice Task Force Member
§  Rep. Lisa A. Shepperson (R-58), ALEC Civil Justice Task Force Member
§  Rep. Carl R. Loucks (R-59), ALEC Civil Justice Task Force Member
§  Rep. Dan Zwonitzer (R-43), ALEC Telecommunications and Information Technology Task Force Member
§  Rep. Rosie M. Berger (R-51), ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force Member
§  Rep. Charles P. Childers (R-50), ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force Member
§  Rep. Bryan K. Pedersen (R-07), ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force Member
§  Rep. Tim Stubson (R-56), ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force Member
§  Rep. Lorraine K. Quarberg (R-28), ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force Member
§  Rep. Thomas E. Lubnau, II (R-31), ALEC International Relations Task Force Member
§  Rep. Kathy Davison (R-20), ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force Member
§  Rep. Thomas Lockhart (R-57), ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Member
§  Rep. Matt Teeters (R-05), ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Alternate and Education Task Force Member
§  Rep. John Eklund, Jr. (R-10), ALEC Education Task Force Member
§  Rep. Allen M. Jaggi (R-18), ALEC Education Task Force Member
§  Rep. Pete S. Illoway (R-42), ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force Member
§  Rep. Jon A. Botten (R-30), ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force Member
§  Rep. Clarence J. Vranish (R-49), ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force Member
§  Rep. Sue Wallis (R-52), ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force Alternate
§  Rep. Amy L. Edmonds (R-12)^[16], ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force Alternate
§  Rep. Pat Childers (R-50), ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Alternate  

Senate 

§  Sen. Grant Larson (R-17), ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Member

§  Sen. Bruce Burns (R-21), ALEC Civil Justice Task Force Member

§  Sen. Stan Cooper (R-14), ALEC Telecommunications and Information Technology Task Force Member
§  Sen. Curt E. Meier (R-03), ALEC Telecommunications and Information Technology Task Force Member
§  Sen. John M. Hastert (D-13), ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force Member
§  Sen. Eli D. Bebout (R-26), ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force and International Relations Task Force Member
§  Sen. Leslie Nutting (R-07), ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force Member
§  Sen. Dan Dockstader (R-16), ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force Member
§  Sen. James Anderson (R-02), ALEC Education Task Force Member
§  Sen. Cale Case (R-25), ALEC Telecommunications and Information Technology Task Force Alternate and International Relations Task Force Member
§  Sen. Henry H. Coe (R-18), ALEC Education Task Force Alternate