Nofsdad
Joined: 06 Jul 2003
Posts: 8380
Location: Central CA
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 4:31 pm Post subject: Did Coal Companies Just Get Dirtier>
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The quote is an excerpt from an email feed from the Sierra Club.
I knew the pricks running big coal were crooks and miscreants to varying degrees but I've long lumped them in with all the other corrupt corporations who'll do just about anything to make a buck for the people who run them and the big shot Wall Street pirates that fund them.
Turns out, I may have been wrong. These guys and the lobbying firms that work for them may be the leading edge in dishonesty and the abandonment of ethical and moral standards... actual innovators instead of mere practitioners. Unless of course, it's something that ALL of the DC pimp brigade does on a regular basis and I suspect that's nearest the truth.
One thing is certain... they've got their share of fricking gaul. Now I've got to wonder how many OTHER companies practice this same low rent crap and how many congresscritters either fall for it or pretend to fall for it so they can justify voting against the real interests of the people who elect them. As usual, any emphasis added is my own.
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An investigation in Charlottesville, Virginia has exposed efforts by lobbyists to misrepresent community organizations' positions on the American Clean Energy and Security Act (1).
Congressman Perriello (D-5th/VA) received multiple letters purported to be from the NAACP and Creciendo Juntos, a local Hispanic Community network, voicing opposition to the legislation.
Neither organization actually opposes the legislation and neither group sent these letters to the Congressman.
Coal mining and utility companies have spent over $77 million on lobbying activities this year (2), we now must ask how much of that money went toward fraudulent activities like this?
Contact your Senator today and make sure they investigate to ensure they haven't received fraudulent letters opposing clean energy.
The alleged forgery of letters from organizations dedicated to protecting their communities forces one to question who is really behind the efforts to block America's progress towards a clean energy economy.
It is disturbing, to say the least, to think that some members of Congress may have, in good faith, voted thinking they were representing their communities when in fact they were not.
As this bill is soon to be debated in the Senate, it is vitally important that more be done to see what other kinds of dirty tricks are being used to give a false impression of grassroots opposition to clean energy.
Contact your Senator today and ensure they keep on the lookout for other fraudulent, dirty tricks of the coal and oil industries.
It's impossible to know at this point how many other members of Congress may have received forged letters like those found in Rep. Perriello's office.
The comprehensive energy and climate bill being discussed in the Senate right now should do more to build our clean energy economy and not let polluters get away with their same old dirty business-as-usual ways. |
So fricking many crooks, so little fricking time. This is hard for an old guy like me... who came up during a time when the country actually was what the political pimps in Washington try to claim it is today.
To wake up in the middle of the night and find that some egg sucking weasels have stolen your entire fricking country is not an easy thing to handle when the time when you could have actually gone out and kicked ass and took names is long past and you slept right through most of it.
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