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Re: Toxic cleanup must come before freight
Author: BOB2
Date: 05-06-2009 - 23:49
Yeah check out their website, then find out who pays their bills? Maybe her intentions are good but her arguments were goofy.
If I had a dollar for every front group that I've run across that sounded okay on the surface, I'd have retired a lot sooner. We have phoney transit riders groups funded by secret contributions who seem mostly to oppose transit, we have phoney environmental groups that front for lawyers, we have phoney libertarians who claim to support competition, funded by monopoly oil companies. There are the "pure" groups who won't take corporate contributions directly, only those same funds laundered through another "non-profit". These have become almost a cottage industry, and some of these folks even have multiple organizations, already incorporated that they'll rent out to you. Then there are the ones set up by PR firms. Welcome to bought and paid for world of astroturf politics.
I look a the arguments and the accomplishments of groups, then figure out who's paying the bills, and finally decide on the merits? This spin sure appears aimed at emulating the Novato shake down attempt on NCRA, with the same lines of nonsense about the railroad, otherwise, they'd be doing a superfund application and getting something cleaned up.
If I had a dollar for every front group that I've run across that sounded okay on the surface, I'd have retired a lot sooner. We have phoney transit riders groups funded by secret contributions who seem mostly to oppose transit, we have phoney environmental groups that front for lawyers, we have phoney libertarians who claim to support competition, funded by monopoly oil companies. There are the "pure" groups who won't take corporate contributions directly, only those same funds laundered through another "non-profit". These have become almost a cottage industry, and some of these folks even have multiple organizations, already incorporated that they'll rent out to you. Then there are the ones set up by PR firms. Welcome to bought and paid for world of astroturf politics.
I look a the arguments and the accomplishments of groups, then figure out who's paying the bills, and finally decide on the merits? This spin sure appears aimed at emulating the Novato shake down attempt on NCRA, with the same lines of nonsense about the railroad, otherwise, they'd be doing a superfund application and getting something cleaned up.
