Environmental wackos spend big bucks on Dems

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Mark Tapscott:

Officials of a dozen top Big Green environmental groups contributed more than $14.5 million to congressional and presidential candidates in 2008 and through the second quarter of 2010 with 96 percent of the total going to Democrats, according to an Examiner analysis of federal campaign data.

The data was compiled from the Federal Election Commission and included only donations by individuals who listed one of the 12 groups as their employer or listed themselves as an officer or director of one or more of the groups. This analysis does not include contributions by individuals who did not list an employer.

The groups included the Audubon Society, Clean Water Action, Defenders of Wildlife, the Environmental Defense Action Fund, Friends of the Earth, League of Conservation Voters, Natural Resources Defense Council, Nature Conservancy, Ocean Champions, Sierra Club, the Trust for Public Land and the Wilderness Society.

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He gives the breakdown. The money went directly to the Democrats in most cases, but there were also large expenditures either against Republicans or for Democrats. I suspect this explains the anti energy agenda of this administration.

See also this, this, this, and this.  The latter is an update of the above article.  The Examiner expose of Big Green should get a Pulitzer if that prize were not reserved for liberals.
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  1. Unknown6:32 PM

    Since the PrairePundit didn't see fit to give us a link, I'll provide it here: Big bucks contributions can be given to environmental whackos at http://cleanwater.org But only if you are part of that fringe group that has unrealistic expectations of having clean, safe water.

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