Jun 22, 2012
About 30 people – including Beth Henry who spoke about the impact of coal on the environment - and members of Occupy Charlotte, staged a “bad air day” to protest Bank of America’s financing of the coal industry. They dumped 500 pounds of coal and then cleaned it up with a “Citizen Clean-Up Crew”. Bank [...]
May 17, 2012
ALEC, though, is not the only “corporate bill mill” playing this game. “Taxpayer-subsidized stealth lobbyists” have upped the ante and skillfully advanced their agendas through bipartisan “trade associations” for state government officials – in particular, the Council of State Governments (CSG) whose multimillion-dollar budget is mostly funded by taxpayers. Through CSG and Friends, lobbyists exploit [...]
