Did the GOP Dirty 8, AKA the Cap-and-Tr8ors, Receive Green to be Green?
Just out of curiosity I began digging on the past and current donations of the 8 Benedict Arnold’s of the Republican Party who voted in favor of cap-and-trade.
As I began to investigate who donated significant amounts to each candidate’s piggy bank, I noticed there was a common trend; these 8 GOPers all had enviro-groups, unions, & alternative energy companies putting money in their coffers.
As an interesting aside, there is a PAC called the Tuesday Group PAC and for all intents and purposes, it may as well be called the RINO PAC ~ 6 out of the 8 tr8ors were funded by this PAC.
Those same 6 are also funded by the Republican “Main Street” Partnership PAC ~ another RINO group.
Recall that GE and Honeywell at one point tried to merge – Honeywell has contributed to almost all of these 8 candidates and GE to some as well. GE is predominantly Democrat, so that should tell you something and at times GE has contributed for the 2010 campaign but did not contribute prior to that… Could the “eight” be getting a deal from both? GE and Honeywell are advocates of global warming and the cap-and-trade system.
Mary Bono Mack:
Mary Bono Mack is part of the energy and commerce committee, headed by none other than, Henry Waxman, of the Waxman-Markey notoriety. One could surmise that she was promised something by Waxman and Pelosi and possibly wanted to make her “boss” proud. However, I was also interested to find out who donates to her.
In 2008 the following contributed:
General Electric (enough said) ~ $4.5K
Edison International/Edison Electric Institute ~ $10.75K
PG&E Corporation ~ $3.5K
Calpine Corporation ~ $2.5K
Sempras Energy ~ $2.5K
Excel Energy, FirstEnergy Corp, Electric Power Supply Assn, American Electric Power, Constellation Energy, etc. ~ $10K
SEIU (union is for a cap-and-trade system) ~ $10K
B&D Consulting/Lobbying ~ $3.5K
Honeywell International ~ $10K
And What about 2010?
General Electric (enough said) ~ $1K
Edison International ~ $5K
B&D Consulting/Lobbying ~ $3K
Honeywell International ~ $1K
Mike Castle:
Mike Castle is part of the Education and Labor Committee and is backed by a lot of trade/labor unions – most of which support a cap-and-trade system. He is also part of the Financial Services Committee, which I also question…
Contributions in 2008:
PEPCO Holdings, Inc. ~ $2.5K
Koch Industries (supported by EPA) ~ $1K
Operating Engineers Union ~ $5K
Other AFL-CIO Unions ~ $8.5K
National Education Assn ~ $10K
SEIU ~ $6K
Financial Institutions ~ $371.9K
League of Conservation Voters & Sierra Club ~ $770
Honeywell International ~ $10K
Contributions in 2010:
The Operating Engineers Union (In ’08 wrote a memo to the senate thanking them for attempting to bring cap-and-trade back) ~ $5K
NRECA (for cap-and-tax) ~ $1K
Heavily Funded by Financial Institutions (kick-backs were put into the cap-and-trade bill for financial companies/mortgages ~ $44.5K
Mark Kirk:
Mark Kirk is on the Appropriations Committee and has been a long-time RINO from Illinois.
Contributions in 2008:
Exelon Corporation (put out press release congratulating the House reps for passing cap-and-trade on Friday). ~ $34.1K
Financial Institutions ~ $136.5K
National Education Assn ~ $19K
Goldman Sachs ~ $15.7K
Honeywell International ~ $5K
League of Conservation Voters ~ $1K
Ocean Champions ~ $4K
Republicans for Environmental Protection ~ $4K
Solar Energy Industries ~ $2K
Peabody Energy(Coal Mining company that thinks Waxman-Markey is cup half full legislation)!? ~ $2.5K
Edison International ~ $2K
Westinghouse Electric ~ $2K
Operating Engineers Union ~ $6K
PMA Lobbying Group (under investigation) ~ $2K
Microsoft Corp. ~ $1.5K
Contributions in 2010:
GE ~ $1K
Honeywell International ~ $1K
Operating Engineers Union ~ $10K
Leonard Lance:
There isn’t much information prior to Mr. Lance’s election in 2008, however, he currently sits on the Financial Services committee.
Contributions in 2010:
League of Conservation Voters ~ $250
Honeywell (believes in cap-and-trade) ~ $1K
Public Service Enterprise Group ~ $1K
National Education Association ~ $1K
Financial Institutions ~ $49.7K
Frank LoBiondo:
Contributions in 2008:
Public Service Enterprise Group ~ $6.5K
Honeywell International ~ $3.5K
Labor Unions ~ $235.8K
Sierra Club/League of Conservation Voters ~ $1.3K
Contributions in 2010:
Labor Unions ~ $53.2K
John McHugh:
Contributions in 2008:
Constellation Energy ~ $10.8K
Honeywell International ~ $10K
Operating Engineers Union ~ $10K
PMA Group ~ $10K
Electric Companies (heavily funded by them incl. Exelon, Edison, FirstEnergy, Progress Energy, etc.) ~ $34K
Environmental Services (MWH Americas) ~ $1K
Labor Unions ~ $133.5K
Contributions in 2010:
Operating Engineers Union ~ $10K
Honeywell International ~ $5K
Labor Unions ~ $11K
Dave Reichert:
Contributions in 2008:
It appears that Dave is an enviro-nut RINO. He was on the Space Committee and receives a lot of funding from Microsoft.
Microsoft ~ $48.2K
National Education Assn ~ $10K
Avista (support cap-and-trade) ~ $1.3K
Puget Sound Energy ~ $7.9K
Financial Institutions ~ $121.5K
Illinois Tool Works gave to Mark Kirk which is understandable but why also to a rep. from Washington state? ~ $2K?
Contributions in 2010:
GE ~ $1K
Honeywell International ~ $3K
Operating Engineers Union ~ $5K
Labor Unions ~ $4.5K
Chris Smith:
Contributions in 2008:
Operating Engineers Union ~ $10K
Laborers Union ~ $10K
National Education Assn ~ $3K
SEIU ~ $5K
Other Labor Unions ~ $92K
League of Conservation Voters ~ $250
Contributions in 2010:
Operating Engineers Union ~ $10K
Other Labor Unions ~ $13K
The Washington Examiner had a brief article on some of the campaign contributions that various members of the GOP 8 were a part of, many of which are already captures here – but as a source you can go here.
I believe there is a lot more investigation that will need to be done in order to fully grasp what these 8 were promised from Waxman and Pelosi, rather than just reviewing their campaign contributions. I also have suspicions regarding the New Jersey 3 as to where many of these green companies and technologies reside. New Jersey has its very own clean energy initiatives/policies for its state and a long list of companies who are involved.
I hope we can get to the bottom of it and find out what it takes to sell out your party, your constituents, but worst of all; your country.
More Obama Cover-Ups, At This Point What’s New?
Obama has become quite good at covering up incidents, but I guess you have to be good if you want to be engaged in the Chicago Political MachineMafia… That’s why the latest cover-up by the EPA for recent emails regarding some interesting findings regarding GloBull Warming, and the latest Obama administration cover-up of the canning of the bio-ethics panel for embryonic stem cell research, come as no surprise.
The EPA must be aware that something fishy is going on with the global warming alarmism. Why else would they cover up recent emails, found by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, that voiced the opposite concerns of what Democrats, the UN, and the EPA would have you believe?
CEI is submitting a set of four EPA emails, dated March 12-17, 2009, which indicate that a significant internal critique of EPA’s position on Endangerment was essentially put under wraps and concealed. The study was barred from being circulated within EPA, it was never disclosed to the public, and it was not placed in the docket of this proceeding. The emails further show that the study was treated in this manner not because of any problem with its quality, but for political reasons.
CEI hereby requests that EPA make this study public, place it into the docket, and either extend or reopen the comment period to allow public response to this new study. We also request that EPA publicly declare that it will engage in no reprisals against the author of the study, who has worked at EPA for over 35 years.
The emails, attached hereto, consist of the following:
1) a March 12 email from Al McGartland, Office Director of EPA’s National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), to Alan Carlin, Senior Operations Research Analyst at NCEE, forbidding him from speaking to anyone outside NCEE on endangerment issues;
2) a March 16 email from Mr. Carlin to another NCEE economist, with a cc to Mr. McGartland and two other NCEE staffers, requesting that his study be forwarded to EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, which directs EPA’s climate change program. The email notes the quantity of peer-reviewed references in the study, and defends its inclusion of new research as well. It states Mr. Carlin’s view that “the critical attribute of good science is its correspondence to observable data rather than where it appears in
the technical literature.” It goes on to point out that the new studies “explain much of the observational data that have been collected which cannot be explained by the IPCC models.” (Emphases added); [Read More Here.]
This data will never reach the media, and even if it did, most far left media outlets will not disclose the information anyway. Nobody wants to destroy the scheme that has been built up over the last few years. The jig is up Democrats, but they have too much money to make from cap and tax and passing Green legislation. They would rather pad their pockets than release this information to the American public.
The latest firing and cover-up happens to involve the bio-ethics panel for embryonic stem cell research. Bush implemented this panel for opposing views and ethics regarding that specific type of research. The panel expired in September and only had one other meeting before that time, however, Obama fired he panel before allowing them to expire appropriately when their time was up. This sounds very familiar to the IGs who happened to disagree with Obama or were investigating his cronies. He fired those IGs and now this panel before their contracts expired. I’m not sure why Obama feels it so difficult to allow the law to reign supreme and just not renew the contracts when time is up. There is something extremely suspicious about all of this.
The White House has dismissed the members of the President’s US Council on Bioethics just a few months before their mandate expires, indicating their services are no longer required by the President and that he is looking for a more “practical” advisory board.
So, if you don’t agree with Obama and his agenda count yourself on the enemy list – you are bound to get fired or savaged by his media minions.
President Bush Was Enviro Friendly After All
President Bush was actually good to the environment. In the following report of statistical data collected by the Environmental Protection Agency, pollution levels have decreased under 6 Republican Administrations.
According to statistics calculated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the United States is in much better shape today than they were several years ago.
Americans have reduced toxic releases by more than 50 million tons since 1970. If that many tons were deposited in dump trucks, the trucks would stretch from Baltimore to Dallas (all the way around the world) if lined up bumper-to-bumper.
- Currently, it would take 20 of today’s new automobiles to release the same number of emissions as a 1960s model.
- Carbon monoxide emissions (CO) have decreased by 33 percent. Forty-one fewer tons are being produced per year as a result of current efforts. Much of these emissions are from cars, trucks, buses, lawn and construction equipment.
- Large utility and industrial boilers and other mechanical devices are producing 12 percent less nitrogen oxide emissions. This is 3.3 million tons fewer each year. Nitrogen oxide is a contributing factor to ozone formation.
- Sulfur dioxide emissions have reduced by 38 percent or 13 million tons per year. These emissions are typically associated with large boilers. Acid rain has been a product of these emissions in the past.
- Dropping 14 million tons per year, volatile organic compound emissions have decreased by 42 percent. VOC emissions are a factor in the formation of the ozone layer.
- Particulate matter emissions reduced by 9 million tons per year, or a 75 percent reduction.
- Decreased by 98 percent, lead emissions have reduced by 217 thousand tons per year.
- The EPA statistics indicate that the decrease in emissions is about 48 percent across the board, reducing pollution by 109 million tons of toxic fumes.
President Bush’s positive effects on the environment are further detailed here by AEI (the same venue Vice President Cheney spoke after President Obama’s Guantanamo Detention Facility speech).
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research analyzed data collected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and concluded that levels of numerous gases linked with air pollution have fallen off since 2001.
Among the findings: Carbon monoxide decreased by 39 percent, ozone by 6 percent, and sulfur dioxide by 32 percent.
“Pick any category you want and pollution levels are generally lower than they were seven years ago,” said Steven Hayward, the policy analyst who authored the report, titled “Index of Leading Environmental Indicators,” for the conservative think tank.
“(Environmental groups) said air pollution was out of control, but this was always more about politics than it was fact,” Hayward said.
Environmental groups agree that tremendous progress has been made since the 1980s, when cities like Houston and Los Angeles were thick with smog and acid rain devastated lakes and forests across the U.S.
It in fact, it goes to show that policy decisions by a Republican led congress at the time had a positive impact on the environment, while protecting business interests at the same time. When sound judgment and policy are united good things do happen.
President George W. Bush drew the ire of environmental groups throughout his eight years in the White House, perhaps the loudest in 2003 when he announced that he would end a Clean Air Act program that required older power plants, refineries and industrial sites to install pollution control devices when they expanded their operations.
But in looking over the data on air quality from the Bush years, Hayward notes that levels of most air pollutants decreased at a faster rate than they did during the Clinton administration.
“Mostly of it’s technological change. Quite a bit of it’s been forced by regulation, but a lot of it has been the marketplace,” Hayward said. “The EPA has models that project an 80 percent decline in auto emissions. Nothing Bush could have done was going to change that.”
Another case in point is free markets, competition, and the need to change in order to keep up with global demands while protecting the environment made much of this possible. Taking away free market principles and mandating industry by government will set us back both economically but environmentally and safety wise (if Mr Obama gets his way with roller skate size soda cans for cars).
Jeff Holmsted, a high-ranking official at the EPA from 2001-2005 and now an attorney with the law firm Bracewell & Giuliani, acknowledged that the decrease in air pollution over the last eight years owes much to efforts of past administrations. But he called the statistics a vindication of Bush’s environmental policy, which he said did away with cumbersome regulations while still protecting the environment.
“I think among people who actually understand how the regulatory process works, they, in private, would acknowledge that we accomplished a lot,” Holmsted said.
Source:forums.gardenweb.com
Obama’s No.2 Post Pick for EPA Withdraws…
President Barack Obama’s pick for the No. 2 post at the Environmental Protection Agency abruptly removed himself from consideration Wednesday, saying the controversy surrounding a foundation he once belonged to would distract from the agency’s work.
Jon Cannon, a professor of environmental law at the University of Virginia and the former top EPA lawyer, said he was withdrawing as the nominee for deputy EPA administrator because the nonprofit America’s Clean Water Foundation had become the subject of scrutiny. Cannon once served on the now-defunct organization’s board of directors.
The EPA’s inspector general concluded in 2007 that the foundation mismanaged $25 million in EPA grants that it had received to help identify environmental risks on farms and to assist states and tribes in complying with water pollution laws. The report found that the foundation could not properly account for the money it had been granted.
Sounds like the Clean Water Foundation was dirty…
Can’t the democrats find anybody who has paid their taxes or hasn’t “mismanaged funds?” Mismanaging funds, I would think, in this administration, would get you a job right away – maybe $25M was not large enough… Trillions definitely would have gotten him in there!
Let’s take a look at the list of withdrawals:
Annette Nazareth, Treasury Department Deputy, withdrawn.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Surgeon General, withdrawn.
Tom Daschle, Health & Human Services secretary, withdrawn.
Gov. Bill Richardson, Commerce Secretary, withdrawn.
Sen. Judd Gregg, Commerce Secretary, withdrawn.
Nancy Killefer, Chief Performance Officer, withdrawn.
Charles Freeman, National Intelligence Council chair, withdrawn.
Jon Cannon, Deputy Administrator for the EPA, withdrawn.
Now let’s look at all the Hope and Change in his administration (List of Clinton Retreads):
RETREADS = 37



