Bill --

I know water quality was/is a priority for Gov. Vilsack.  I know the Iowa
Environmental Council played a key role in moving the bill forward.
However, the bill that was "written" by Senator Bartz, as I understand it,
was (or in very similar form) on the ALEC website.  I think Lyle Krewson
first pointed this out and later Linda Appelgate of the IEC noted it at our
meetings.  Lyle can correct me if I'm wrong.  Senator Bartz wrote an op-ed
about his (this) bill that was printed in the Des Moines Register at that
time.

Yes, you and others in the House did put up a superb battle to improve the
bill.

Jane Clark

----- Original Message -----
From: William Witt <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: ALEC news
>
> Please check your memory again regarding the water quality initiative of
> three years ago.  It was Governor Vilsack's top environmental priority,
and
> the Iowa Environmental Council played a key role in moving it forward.
> Former Sen. Bartz, Farm Bureau, and the ABI strongly influenced its form
> coming out of the Senate, but we put up a superb battle in the House and
> made it a good bill in the end.
>
> --Bill Witt
>
> Subject:        ALEC news
>
> Last week in the Des Moines Register, there was an article about three
Iowa
> legislators who skipped the last day of the session for a trip to Vegas
> where they would attend the ALEC Convention.  The article below refers to
> just a few of the positions ALEC takes on issues we care about.  I seem to
> recall that the "clean water bill" passed in Iowa two years ago was based
on
> a sample bill from ALEC.  The three Iowa legislators who attended the
> meeting are Sen. Sandy Greiner (R), Sen. McKibben (R) and Rep. Delores
Mertz
> (D).
> Jane Clark
> [log in to unmask]
>

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