Stephanie
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- Jul 11, 2004
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Well well. the Democrat party, the federal Government and now some State Governments SHOW themselves not to be OUR FRIENDS. people need to wake up. and they are using your TAXDOLLAR for this type of Propaganda to be USED against YOU/US. demand they Defund this EPA, IRS, BLM etc. this government has become a Monster
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Documents Reveal Dem Efforts to Discredit EPA Critics
Emails and talking points memos detail ways to ‘sow doubts about our opponents motives’
Emissions from a coal power plant / AP
BY: Lachlan Markay
October 7, 2015 5:00 am
Supporters of a controversial Environmental Protection Agency regulation commissioned Democratic pollsters to plot ways to attack the motives and credibility of the regulation’s critics, documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon reveal.
Aides to a dozen Democratic governors and the Democratic Party’s gubernatorial advocacy arm circulated talking points and political messaging memos on EPA’s new power plant regulations that laid out ways to “sow doubts about our opponents [sic] motives,” in the words of one of those memos.
The previously unreported documents, obtained by the Energy and Environment Legal Institute through an open records request and shared exclusively with the Free Beacon, provide a window into the Democratic messaging machine’s approach to an issue that its own pollsters acknowledge is a hard sell among its target voter demographics.
The Democratic polling firm Hart Research Associates conducted research on voter attitudes about the regulation, which has faced intense criticism since the EPA unveiled its proposed rule last year. Hart found that voters generally shared the concerns of Republican critics of the regulation.
“Research indicates that many voters’ default belief is that electricity bills will go up” as a result of the regulation, according to a Hart talking points memocirculated by an employee of Advocacy Advisors, a political consulting firm that, emails indicate, worked closely with the Climate Action Campaign, an initiative pushing EPA regulations.
“Denying [electricity] rate increases strains credulity with many audiences,” according to the memo.
Advocacy Advisors partner Melissa Roy sent that memo to aides to the governors of Oregon and Washington, and Ian Walton, the policy director of the Democratic Governors Association. Walton forwarded the memo to an email listserv titled “Democratic Governor’s Caucus Staff list.”
The Oregon staffer was Dan Carol, a top aide to former Gov. John Kitzhaber (D). Kitzhaber resigned in disgrace in February facing a criminal investigation into an influence-peddling scheme involving his fiancé, Cylvia Hayes. Carol secured Hayes a $118,000 fellowship, then landed the highest paying job on the governor’s staff–$67,000 more than Kitzhaber himself. Hayes’ fellowship involved environmental advocacy work while she was advising the governor’s office on clean energy issues.
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Documents Reveal Dem Efforts to Discredit EPA Critics
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Documents Reveal Dem Efforts to Discredit EPA Critics
Emails and talking points memos detail ways to ‘sow doubts about our opponents motives’
Emissions from a coal power plant / AP
BY: Lachlan Markay
October 7, 2015 5:00 am
Supporters of a controversial Environmental Protection Agency regulation commissioned Democratic pollsters to plot ways to attack the motives and credibility of the regulation’s critics, documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon reveal.
Aides to a dozen Democratic governors and the Democratic Party’s gubernatorial advocacy arm circulated talking points and political messaging memos on EPA’s new power plant regulations that laid out ways to “sow doubts about our opponents [sic] motives,” in the words of one of those memos.
The previously unreported documents, obtained by the Energy and Environment Legal Institute through an open records request and shared exclusively with the Free Beacon, provide a window into the Democratic messaging machine’s approach to an issue that its own pollsters acknowledge is a hard sell among its target voter demographics.
The Democratic polling firm Hart Research Associates conducted research on voter attitudes about the regulation, which has faced intense criticism since the EPA unveiled its proposed rule last year. Hart found that voters generally shared the concerns of Republican critics of the regulation.
“Research indicates that many voters’ default belief is that electricity bills will go up” as a result of the regulation, according to a Hart talking points memocirculated by an employee of Advocacy Advisors, a political consulting firm that, emails indicate, worked closely with the Climate Action Campaign, an initiative pushing EPA regulations.
“Denying [electricity] rate increases strains credulity with many audiences,” according to the memo.
Advocacy Advisors partner Melissa Roy sent that memo to aides to the governors of Oregon and Washington, and Ian Walton, the policy director of the Democratic Governors Association. Walton forwarded the memo to an email listserv titled “Democratic Governor’s Caucus Staff list.”
The Oregon staffer was Dan Carol, a top aide to former Gov. John Kitzhaber (D). Kitzhaber resigned in disgrace in February facing a criminal investigation into an influence-peddling scheme involving his fiancé, Cylvia Hayes. Carol secured Hayes a $118,000 fellowship, then landed the highest paying job on the governor’s staff–$67,000 more than Kitzhaber himself. Hayes’ fellowship involved environmental advocacy work while she was advising the governor’s office on clean energy issues.
all of it here:
Documents Reveal Dem Efforts to Discredit EPA Critics
