ALEC All-Expenses Paid Vacations, and they incourage our legislators to bring their whole families..

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All-Expenses Paid Vacations


The Tampa Hyatt, site of ALEC's 1994 meeting
Corporations subsidize ALEC events at places like the New Orleans Marriot and the W Hotel in San Francisco -- sites of the 2011 and 2006 ALEC Annual Meeting. Some legislators receive scholarships from ALEC's corporate-funded coffers to attend, some receive "honoraria" from ALEC, and some pay their own way, but at a subsidized rate of almost 50% less than what corporate members pay. State lawmakers receive regal treatment and lush lodgings, and in the process are handed corporate-friendly model legislation to introduce in statehouses back home. Based on the ubiquity of ALEC bills in state governments across the U.S., it is as if a resort vacation and a room with a view are all it costs to secure the legislative favors of many state politicians.

ALEC held its 1992 Annual Meeting at the Broadmoor Resort (pictures below) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. A Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star winner for 50 consecutive years, the Broadmoor features "an award-winning day spa, fitness center, two swimming pools, three outdoor hot tubs, one lap pool; 54 holes of championship golf, six tennis courts with tennis camps; children's programs; 24-hour room service, valet parking" and 24 specialty retail shops. Then-President George H.W. Bush delivered a speech to ALEC members at the 1992 conference. The following quotes are excerpted from his remarks.


The Broadmoor Hotel & Resort, Colorado Springs, CO
"Now, the plan I've outlined today, a plan based on so many ideas that you've fit into the system, ALEC ideas, ALEC initiatives, is the strong, compelling action that our economy desperately needs. Quite frankly, I don't expect the other side to come forward and back their ideas, these pronouncements, back them with action. I think there's a Trojan horse lurking in the weeds, ready to pull a fast one on the American people, and I simply am not going to let that happen."http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/07/10877/alec-hotels


I'm not sure but are these vacations, considered gifts, and isn't this a no no...

[shanti]

1. for the haves and the have-mores

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