BAD NEWS UPDATE: Senators Sold Out to ALEC and COS on Con-Con Vote
BAD NEWS UPDATE: Senators Sold Out to American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)
and Convention of States (COS) on SJR 7 & SJR 9 Con-Con Vote
*** Exposing the ALEC Members of the Arkansas Senate ***
(listed below)
Senator Jason Rapert passed his Article V convention resolutions (SJR 7 and SJR 9) out of the full Senate today, February 28th, 2017! He worked viciously (especially with other ALEC members) for the eighteen votes in the Senate to get the number he needed for both bills to pass, and sadly, it worked. He’s worked on applying for an Article V convention for YEARS.
The resolutions ran under the guise of “marriage” and “right to life” amendments! They will be considered in the House soon. We must get to work contacting all Arkansas State Representatives and telling them to VOTE NO on SJR 7 and SJR 9 — and all other Article V convention legislation, or the State of Arkansas will be one of the states applying to Congress for a Constitutional Convention!
In case you didn’t know it, the non voting ALEC members sit on the sidelines waiting to cast the final vote to pass bills, and they take turns “taking a hit” on votes. They know how to work their manipulative strategy…
- Click here for the official vote count on SJR 7. The Yeas and Not Voting are a vote against the people! (Thirteen out of eighteen were American Legislative Exchange Council ALEC members. Five out of the eight non-voting were ALEC members.)
- Click here for the official vote count on SJR 9. The Yeas and Not Voting are a vote against the people. (Thirteen out of nineteen were American Legislative Exchange Council ALEC members. Three out of the seven non-voting were ALEC members.)
Shown directly below are the Subtitles of each bill and how each legislator voted for each bill.
SJR 7 AN APPLICATION TO CONGRESS TO CALL A CONVENTION FOR PROPOSING AN AN AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION CONCERNING THE DEFINITION OF “ MARRIAGE”
The legislators designated in RED below are American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) members.
Yeas
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Yeas: 18 |
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Nays
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Nays: 9 |
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Non Voting
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Non Voting: 8 |
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SJR 9 AN APPLICATION TO CONGRESS TO CALL A CONVENTION FOR PROPOSING AN AN AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION PROVIDING THAT EVERY HUMAN BEING IS ENTITLED TO THE RIGHT TO LIFE.
Yeas
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Yeas: 19 |
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Nays
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Nays: 9 |
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Non Voting
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Non Voting: 7 |
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The list below shows past and current ALEC Arkansas Senators; current ALEC Senators are listed in red font, and past ALEC Senators are listed in black font. IF WE’VE MADE A MISTAKE in the lists below, be sure to reply to this email, and let us know so we can correct it.
Current Senators:
- Sen. Cecile Bledsoe (R-3) Benton County; ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force
- Sen. Ronald Caldwell (R-23) Cross, Jackson, Lee, Monroe, St. Francis, White, and Woodruff Counties; ALEC Energy, Environment & Agriculture Committee
- Sen. Alan Clark (R-13) Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, and Saline Counties; ALEC Education Task Force
- Sen. Linda Collins-Smith (R-19) Fulton, Independence, Izard, Randolph and Sharp Counties; Served as ALEC Former State Chairman when she was a Representative. Currently ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force
- Sen. John Cooper (R-21) Craighead County; ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force
- Sen. Jonathan Dismang (R-28) Arkansas, Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie, White, and Woodruff Counties
- Sen. Jane English (R-34) Pulaski County; Served as ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force. Currently ALEC Education Committee
- Sen. Jake Carter Files (R-8) Sebastian County; ALEC Communications and Technology Task Force
- Sen. Jimmy Hickey (R-11) Hempstead, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Sevier Counties; ALEC International and Federal Relations Task Force
- Sen. Jeremy Young Hutchinson (R-33) Pulaski and Saline Counties; ALEC Civil Justice Task Force
- Sen. Melissa Irvin (R-18) Baxter, Cleburne, Faulkner, Fulton, Marion, Searcy, Stone, Van Buren and White Counties; Served as ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force
- Sen. Bryan King (R-5) Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson, Madison, Sebastian, and Washington Counties; Served as ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force. Currently Justice Performance Project
- Sen. Jason Rapert (R-35) Faulkner and Perry Counties; Insurance and Economic Development Task Force
- Sen. Terry W. Rice (R-9) Crawford, Franklin, Scott, and Sebastian Counties; Served on the ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force as a Representative
- Sen. Bill Sample (R-14) Garland and Saline Counties; Served as ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force. Currently Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force
- Sen. Greg Standridge (R-16) Boone, Carroll, Newton, Pope, and Van Buren Counties; Commerce, Insurance, and Economic Development Task Force
- Sen. Gary Stubblefield (R-6) Environment and Agriculture Task Force
- Sen. Eddie Joe Williams (R-29) Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski, and White Counties; Served as ALEC Education Task Force (Was fined by Arkansas Ethics Commission) Currently ALEC State Chair
Former Senators
- Former Sen. Jim Argue (D-32)
- Former Sen. Gilbert R. Baker (R-30); Civil Justice Task Force
- Former Sen. Barbara Horn (D-21), former State Chairman
- Former Sen. Jimmy L. Jeffress (D-24); Education Task Force
- Former Rep. and Sen. Jim Keet, 2010 Republican candidate for Governor
- Sen. Johnny Key (R-1) (Was fined by the Arkansas Ethics Commission) Currently Arkansas Department of Education Commissioner appointed by Gov. Asa Hutchinson
- Sen. Michael Lamoureux (R-4), member of ALEC Board of Directors, State Chairman,Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force member, and 2014 State Legislator of the Year. Was fined by the Arkansas Ethics Commission. Resigned as Chief of Staff to Arkansas Governor Hutchinson
- Former Sen. Stanley Russ, Senate Majority Leader, listed in "1999 ALEC Leaders in the States"
- Former Sen. Jerry Taylor (D-23)
Special Note: One of ALEC's highest priorities is to amend the U.S. Constitution via a Convention under Article V of the United States Constitution. There remain many unanswered legal questions about how a convention is triggered. If a constitutional convention IS triggered, it is unclear that it could actually and constitutionally be confined to just ONE amendment
Also please boycott all ALEC corporate members. This list may be a little outdated, but you will get the message.
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