As you may have read elsewhere on our blog, we tried to attend the “Energy Citizens” rally in Houston yesterday but were turned away. Even far-right teabaggers, brought out to the event by FreedomWorks and a promise of a free meal, weren’t allowed in, despite actually being sympatico with Big Oil’s agenda. The offending item [...]
Archive for August 19th, 2009
Why Does Big Oil Hate Our Freedom?
Posted in Campaign Finance, Global Warming, tagged #FrontGroupFAIL, ACES, API, astroturf, Big Oil, cap and tax, cap and trade, citizen sarah, climate change, crap and trade, Energy Citizens, Global Warming, Public Citizen, Texas, waxman-markey on August 19, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Houston’s Energy Citizens Company Picnic
Posted in Global Warming, tagged ACES, API, astroturf, Big Oil, cap and tax, cap and trade, citizen sarah, climate change, crap and trade, Energy Citizens, Global Warming, Public Citizen, Texas, waxman-markey on August 19, 2009 | 20 Comments »
Yesterday the Public Citizen Texas team drove down to Houston to crash the American Petroleum Institute’s Energy Citizen event. Billed as a “grassroots” rally against the cap and trade bill currently before Congress, this event was nothing more than a company picnic. About 2500 energy employees were brought by charter bus to the Verizon Wireless [...]
Big Oil Astroturf rally in Houston more company picnic than grassroots campaign
Posted in Campaign Finance, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, tagged ACES, API, astroturf, Carbon Dioxide, climate change, Coal, Energy, Energy Citizens, Global Warming, green jobs, houston, Public Citizen, public citizen texas, Texas, waxman-markey on August 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Your intrepid friends at Public Citizen tried to attend the astroturf “Energy Citizens” rally yesterday in Houston. We’re busy pulling together our bloggings and all the footage we shot, but keep checking back here for updates throughout the day. We were not allowed in the meeting, as we did not work for an energy company, [...]
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