Coal industry paid astroturfers $50 to wear pro-coal t-shirts at EPA hearing

[kpete]

In Chicago and Washington Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency held the first of its hearings on a carbon pollution standard for new power plants. The coal industry, which objected to standards curtailing mercury and other toxic emissions imposed on power plants earlier this year by the EPA, decided to show "grassroots" support in opposition to the proposed standard. So it put the above ad on Craigslist seeking people to attend the hearing wearing a t-shirt "in support of an energy project." No mention of coal.
MORE:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/25/1094835/-Coal-industry-paid-astroturfers-50-to-wear-pro-coal-t-shirts-at-EPA-hearing

[Octafish]

1. Money IS Free Speech.

And the more money you have, the more who will hear what you have to say. Works especially great with governmint. Undemocratic as hell, but, again...

[uppityperson]

14. MIRT ppr'd, is cleaning up. thanks.

[Octafish]

26. 10-cents a post.

Quantity over Quality and Substance and Truth must pay good.



One question is: Who on earth would be EVIL enough to do such a thing?

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. MIRT team, clean up on aisle 3

[kdmorris]

13. They work fast for Memorial Day!

All gone now!

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. I can still see a couple of them

[kdmorris]

17. All gone!

I assume all the juries were 6-0 to hide it.

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. Thank you MIRT team.

Nice, quick work!

[uppityperson]

21. I counted 65-1 Hide-Leave ratio of the ones I saw.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1244&pid=30860

[kdmorris]

23. Is that a link to the MIRT forum?

I am not worthy! (according to what happens when I click on it)

Thanks for the statistics, though

[uppityperson]

28. You have to be a member of MIRT to see it. Sorry. I counted the numbers from what was posted here

also.

[proud2BlibKansan]

25. I want to know why the one voted to let him stay

[onehandle]

12. Go get back on top of your sister/mother. nt

[MrScorpio]

15. I always have to wonder about strident homophobes...

They're always driven to talk more about gay sex than most gay people.

[onehandle]

18. How dare you judge their sexuality!

They are All Man. Things of men are on their minds constantly.

Men working on their cars. Men chopping wood. Men digging ditches. Men playing ball. Men hosing themselves down...

...maybe shirtless... ...with a friend... ...on a hot day... ...washing the sweat of manly things off of each other...

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. We shut one up on a local forum

Posted an article that said a study showed that many homophobes were actually gay. This guy had been a regular for years on that forum but as soon as that article was posted, he went away and has not come back.

[MrScorpio]

22. I just made this for whenever more of them pop up:

Everyone can use this as needed.

[nxylas]

24. It's always good to link to this Onion story too

http://www.theonion.com/articles/why-do-all-these-homosexuals-keep-sucking-my-cock,11150/

[Octafish]

27. Bookmarked.

I'm sending it to Rick Santorum.

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. Rahm Emanuel did the same thing in Chicago at public hearings on school closings

And Rex Sinquefield (millionaire conservative activist) did this in MO as well. He sent African American families to state senate hearings on school choice wearing matching t-shirts. Each family was paid and given a free ride to the capital as well as lunch. And all they had to do was take their kids out of school for a day and put a silly t-shirt on them.