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Triana

(22,666 posts)
Sun Dec 7, 2014, 01:26 PM Dec 2014

Republicans Have Been Working With Energy Companies In Secret Conspiracy Against Obama




A secret alliance of Republican officials and energy companies has been working together to conspire to thwart executive actions taken by President Obama.

The New York Times reported on a letter that had been written by an energy company and copied by state government stationery then sent to Washington,

The email exchange from October 2011, obtained through an open-records request, offers a hint of the unprecedented, secretive alliance that Mr. Pruitt and other Republican attorneys general have formed with some of the nation’s top energy producers to push back against the Obama regulatory agenda, an investigation by The New York Times has found.

Attorneys general in at least a dozen states are working with energy companies and other corporate interests, which in turn are providing them with record amounts of money for their political campaigns, including at least $16 million this year.

They share a common philosophy about the reach of the federal government, but the companies also have billions of dollars at stake. And the collaboration is likely to grow: For the first time in modern American history, Republicans in January will control a majority — 27 — of attorneys general’s offices.


What The Times uncovered is an example of something that the majority of Democratic voters don’t understand. State elections are in some ways more important than federal elections. State elections in midterm years really matter.


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onethatcares

(16,168 posts)
2. do some background on the one in Florida
Sun Dec 7, 2014, 01:50 PM
Dec 2014

where the energy company named Duke has just done away with conservation measures, and any tax rebates for solar energy telling
the citizens there is not enough "sun" in the sunshine state for solar to work.

The AG is named Pam Bondi.

Hell, she just got the National Republican Attorney General post.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
4. They should be convicted of conspiracy but they won't be as our Department of Justice is either to
Sun Dec 7, 2014, 02:10 PM
Dec 2014

afraid of them or does not have the evidence.

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
6. an essential part of getting any of their agenda done is their invisible weapon
Sun Dec 7, 2014, 03:12 PM
Dec 2014

the same one they always use to create made to order constituencies to push or overturn legislation, the always-ignored buzz machine, republicon radio.

barbtries

(28,789 posts)
7. yep.
Sun Dec 7, 2014, 03:53 PM
Dec 2014

pretty much all of mass consumed media. i am so sick of it. our democracy is falling by the wayside.

RiverLover

(7,830 posts)
9. They paid $16 million in campaign donations to own these attorney generals, in an attempt
Sun Dec 7, 2014, 09:18 PM
Dec 2014

to continue to max profits while raping the earth, poisoning the earth, & accelerating climate change.

I got your hate right here.

geretogo

(1,281 posts)
12. Franco , Pinochet , and Mussolini are clapping in their graves watching their followers take over
Mon Dec 8, 2014, 07:21 PM
Dec 2014

America . All in the name of Liberty and Freedom of course .

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