A Washington grassroots lobbying firm has acknowledged forging anti-climate bill letters purporting to be from a local NAACP chapter and a Latino advocacy group to a Virginia lawmaker, and a congressional committee said it was launching an investigation.The office of freshman Democratic Rep. Tom Perriello discovered that a half-dozen letters it received had nearly identical language signed by a made-up person at Creciendo Juntos, the Latino group, and five fake members of the Albemarle-Charlottesville branch of the NAACP. The lobbying firm, Bonner & Associates, apologized to the groups.
The firm blamed the faked letters on a temporary employee who, it says, has been fired.
But one of the climate bill's primary sponsors, Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., said Friday that his Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming would investigate the matter.
"This fraud on Congress shows that some opponents of clean energy have resorted to forgery and theft to block progress," Markey said in a statement, calling it "an appalling abuse."
Of course, anyone that reads most of the right wing blogs or listens to right wing talk radio is not surprised that the right wing would lie about anything, if they thought there was money in it for them.
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"The firm blamed the faked letters on a temporary employee who, it says, has been fired."
ReplyDeleteOh crap they caught us! What to do, what to do... Let's hold a blamestorming session! We got any minimum wage temps around here to throw under the bus??
Yeah, that's the ticket!
So, some temp employee screws up majorly, and you think "right wingers" have to resort to "lying"? Pfft! No need to lie when the truth works MUCH better. :/
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ReplyDeleteWhat do you know of the truth, when you are one of the deluded birther conspiracy nuts?
And do you think these interns had the gumption to think of, plan out and implement this by themselves? They were doing it on orders.
I expect more than that from you, Kate.
1) Birther? Expecting the so called "transparency candidate" to be a "transparency president"? I keep expecting YOU, and every other person on the left, to demand to see all those documents that BO has spent a cool million to keep hidden. I have expected better from YOU!
ReplyDelete2) I will repeat: No need to lie when the truth works much better. What part of that was so incomprehensible to you?
Yeah, sure Kate, even though half the conservative rags admit it's genuine, even though it's been in court and found to be valid, you keep drinking your tea flavored Kool-Aid, dreaming of birth certificates on grassy knolls, or whatever.
ReplyDeleteDo you need some tinfoil for a new hat, to help keep all that truth from leaking out?
Your obsession with the certificate of live birth, which is NOT a certified copy of the birth certificate is amusing. I want to see the school records. And I've stated that repeatedly. If you'd pull your head of that electric kool aid, you might have noticed that.
ReplyDeleteTo be honest, as soon as I see it's another birfer thing, I skip it.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the conspiracy du jour? That he didn't go to school?
I expected better from you! Shame I keep thinking you have some sense. Shame you keep disappointing me.
ReplyDeleteACORN! They NEVER lie and throw their underpaid staff under the bus. Never!
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ReplyDeleteACORN has turned in their people that have forged registration cards, yes, but they never ordered them to forge them in the first place.
Not that that was on topic or anything.