Astroturf

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• Astro-turfers Targeting Matheson, Add Your Voice

  
  The SideTrack — Authority: 117
  Matheson seems to be listening to them too. Utah Health Policy Project in the inbox: Congressman Matheson and his colleagues will be called to the House floor for a rare Saturday vote on the most far-reaching health care reforms in more than 40 years! Call Congressman Matheson TODAY and urge him to support H.R. ...
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• what does he mean -- "We work with the police... you dont have to be arrested unless you want to..."

  
  the moon's favors — Authority: 135
  
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• Michele Bachmann’s Astroturfing Teabaggers: A Rally for NO Solution

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 574
  Bachmann urged her followers to "scare" members of Congress, saying, "Nothing scares members of Congress more than freedom-loving [...]
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• you too can be a corporate lobbyist! how the grassroots got to Bachmanns Nov 5 news conference

  
  the moon's favors — Authority: 135
  Wow! You dont have to be a billionaire! A $25 love gift and you get a ride to the Nations Capital! And FREE DOUGHNUTS! stay tuned for their "grassroots" Hot Air Tour exposing Global Warming... AFP buses coming to Washington DC Nov. 5 google news. buses paid for by Americans For Prosperity trip to DC, ...
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• Bonners Independent Ethics Adviser Backs Out Over Ad Flap

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 782
  The "independent" ethics adviser that astroturf lobbyist Jack Bonner told Congress hed retained in the wake of the flap over those forged letters to lawmakers has backed out of the role, citing the TPMmuckraker-driven fallout over an ad he placed this week praising Bonner. James Thurber, a long-time political ...
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• Americans for Prosperity Brings Tea Partiers to Washington

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  It was widely reported that the corporate-funded, small-government, anti-health care reform group Americans for Prosperity was helping to organize Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-Minn.) Tea Party at the Capitol today. ThinkProgress has video of AfP workers handing out signs and talking points to the Tea Partiers the ...
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• Astroturf In Action: Right-Wing Billionaire David Koch Pays For 40 Buses To Haul In Protesters

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 844
  Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the corporate front group founded in the 1980s by Koch Industries billionaire David Koch, worked closely with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) to orchestrate the anti-health reform rally today. As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, AFP has been encouraging right-wing activists to board ...
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• The Superbowl of Freedom

  
  The Contrarian — Authority: 132
  How heinous is Rep. Michelle Bachmann ? Let us count the ways. For one, the most noxious member of the House of Representatives has organized what she’s calling “High Noon for Health Care,” which aims to assemble a large group of “Real Americans” on my city to try to prevent expanding health care options ...
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• University Probing Ad Placed By Bonners "Independent" Ethics Adviser

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 782
  American University is investigating the ad praising astroturf lobbyist Jack Bonner that ran in Roll Call yesterday in the name of one of the schools departments. "The university is aware of the ad and is looking into the facts of the situation," a university spokeswoman told TPMmuckraker. "The university does ...
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• Independent Advisor Praises Jack Bonner in Unrelated Newspaper Advertisement

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 498
  This seems awfully fishy : When he was hauled before Congress last week for sending those forged letters to lawmakers on climate change, astroturf lobbyist Jack Bonner pledged to make sure that no similar event ever happened again. As a centerpiece of that effort, Bonner announced that his firm had hired James ...
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• Working Families Win in U.S. House Elections

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 651
  Northeast New York Central Labor Council President Betty Lennon, New York State AFL-CIO President Denis Hughes and union members get out the vote for Bill Owens.   New York State AFL-CIO President Denis Hughes and Rep.-elect Bill Owens   Last night, on opposite ends of the country, union members ...
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• Newsweek And Oil Lobby Team Up To Host Climate Change Event For Lawmakers

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 782
  Newsweek magazine is teaming up with an oil-industry lobbying group to host an invitation-only event on climate-change and energy issues for lawmakers, just as the Senate gets set to take up legislation on the subject. The panel discussion, entitled "Climate and Energy Policy: Moving?", will feature Jack Gerard, ...
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• NAMI and Pharma: New Revelations

  
  Hooked: Ethics, Medicine, and Pharma — Authority: 406
  For a good while, Sen. Grassley and his team seemed focused on one specific area of Pharma--outing academic docs who are on the take for big bucks, and who may not have fully disclosed their takings to their institutions or to NIH. Now, it seems, the good Senator is after astroturf. We read that he sent letters last ...
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• Chemical Industry Front Group Fades Away

  
  Center for Media and Democracy - Publishers of PR Watch — Authority: 574
  A freshly-minted front group , which proclaimed that it promoted "balanced chemical safety reform that protects public health, innovation, and economic growth”, has had a shorter than planned life. Richard Denison, a scientist with Environmental Defense , noted that "nowhere does the website reveal who runs or is ...
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• House Panel Calls Out Energy Astroturfers for Corrupting Democratic Process

  
  Center for Media and Democracy - Publishers of PR Watch — Authority: 574
  The House Global Warming Committee conducted a hearing to investigate the astroturf lobbying firm Bonner and Associates , which last summer sent phony letters on forged stationery to members of Congress on behalf of their energy-industry clients who oppose a climate change bill. At the hearing, Bonner and ...
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• Letter from Hawthorn Group to Bonner and Associates Giving Instructions to Generate Letters to Congress

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 546
  Kate Sheppard : In an email to Bonner headed “Ready to Rumble,” Hawthorn lists seven key Democratic targets it believed could be pressured to vote against the bill. Hawthorn also named specific interest groups it hoped would write letters opposing the legislation—especially organizations “representing the ...
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• Blowing the Whistle on Astroturfing

  
  Action Factory DC Blog — Authority: 488
  Hey Bonner & Associates- we can play that game, too. Today’s Congressional hearing to bring to light the fraudulent letters sent to three congressmen on behalf of Bonner & Associates just days before the vote on the House energy bill (ACES) this past summer was focused around one central theme: ...
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• Could Coal Lobby Chief Be Probed For Perjury?

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 782
  Could apparently false statements made by the head of a coal-industry lobby group before Congress this morning end up being referred to the Justice Department for a criminal perjury probe? Congressional investigators arent ruling it out. As we reported , Steve Miller, the director of the American Coalition for ...
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• During Forged Letter Investigation Hearing, Coal Industry Lies Under Oath About Its Lobbying History

  
  Think Progress — Authority: 844
  Today, the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held a hearing investigating fraudulent letters forged by Bonner & Associates on behalf of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) to attack the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454). As the Wonk ...
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• Testimony of Representatives Ed Markey and Tom Periello on Fraudulent Letters Sent to Congress

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 546
  Here is Chairman Markey’s testimony: markeyOpening - Here is Rep. Periello’s testimony: periello -
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