C. Gene Whisnant
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C. Gene Whisnant is a state legislator in Oregon. He is a Republican who has represented District 53 since 2003 in the State Assembly. He is the Co-Chair of the House General Government and Consumer Protection Committee.[1]
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Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council
Whisnant is the Oregon State Chairman of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) as of 2011.[2] In August 2011, he was given ALEC's 2011 Legislator of the Year Award.[3]
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In July 2009, during the height of the anti-Obama health care reform backlash, Whisnant signed onto an ALEC letter opposing the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act, which would be signed into law in early 2010.[4]
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- ↑ Oregon State Legislature, Representative Gene Whisnant, legislative biography, accessed July 9, 2011
- ↑ American Legislative Exchange Council, State Chairmen, organizational website, accessed July 9, 2011
- ↑ American Legislative Exchange Council, "Solutions for the States," 38th Annual Meeting agenda, on file with CMD, August 3-6, 2011
- ↑ American Legislative Exchange Council, Letter to Senator Reid and Speaker Pelosi, July 29, 2009
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