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[JonLP24]

45. It affects much more than advertising money

op Senate Recipients Funded

Recipient Amount
Mitch McConnell $248,259
John Cornyn $184,809
Lisa Murkowski $126,850
Orrin G. Hatch $126,600
John Barrasso $101,000
Ted Cruz $99,500
Rob Portman $90,750
Cory Gardner $81,707
David Vitter $78,950
Roy Blunt $78,050

http://maplight.org/us-congress/interest/E1110

An internal GOP memo was leaked over a decade ago I believe similarly saying deny global warming & recruit scientists sympathetic to their POV which should alone put global warming denial to bed so it started with basically calling it nonsense to "it isn't man made", Palin actually answered yes and didn't stumble when asked that in the Couric interview. In Alaska, you can easily measure the methane coming from the ground but when she was asked the VP debate after her handlers coached & trained her stumbled on the man made question, hit a wall but managed a no out of it all. It was so absurd, the whole transition.

Recently it evolved to "I'm not a scientist" though there were was a ridiculous Senate vote over whether global warming is fact or fiction which some of the Republicans I suspect as to smarter than that still either pretended to or officially believe it to be a hoax. I'd mention Inhofe bringing in the snowball but he likely believes that it isn't real & also factoring in Bernie Sanders conceding him as an idiot.

When Sanders was a guest on Real Time, Bill Maher mentioned the global warming rhetoric indicates they're idiots which Sanders quickly countered that they are very smart referenced the big money contributions which has affected both the parties and when Maher said, "What about Inhofe" Sanders said, "He is a very nice man who believes what he says" Maher than said, the Republican party "a coalition of the greedy cynical & the truly stupid" which sums it up perfectly.

Regarding why they do all this, it is so obvious as to why. It threatens a penny the oil & gas industry won't make because of potential public support for regulations to cut back on the factual truth that the oil & gas industry is the primary source of the emissions. Everything from producing it, storing it, transporting it all of it releases the emissions.

I think overall Republicans receive either 82% or 88% of the overall contributions from oil & gas.