We’re used to railing against the use of corporate cash as a determinant of Congressional behavior, but we think the use of faux-grassroots groups (now being known, appropriately enough, as ‘astroturf’ groups) to sway politicians may be equally disruptive to the democratic process. This somewhat cynical* phenomenon is being enthusiastically copied by the oil & gas industry from the playbook of Big Health, as an American Petroleum Institute (API) memo recently leaked to Greenpeace USA showed.
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And you thought the town hall meetings on health care reform were bad…