They could have just posted it on here. I'm sure some of you would have done it for free.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/05...a-hearing/

Quote:Apparently unable to find real activists, the coal industry paid astroturfers $50 to wear pro-coal t-shirts at an Environmental Protection Agency hearing yesterday.

The EPA hearings, held yesterday in Chicago and Washington, D.C., were focused on the agency’s first-ever carbon standards for new power plants. The industry has adamantly opposed these standards, as well as standards on mercury — a pollutant that even Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) admits is harmful.

This year, coal is throwing around its weight by spending tens of millions of dollars on media advertising and political contributions.

Coal is also engaging in fake advocacy campaigns, known as astroturfing. In a Craigslist ad found by the Environmental Law & Policy Center in Chicago, a coal group promised participants $50 to “wear a t-shirt in support of an energy project.” Upon further digging, the Sierra Club blog pieced together much of the deleted Craigslist ad:

People needed to attend a public meeting (Tinley Park /Chicago)

Reply to: px6mq-3031150602@gigs.craigslist.org (email address no longer valid)

Looking for people THIS THURSDAY, MAY 24 who want to make a couple of dollars for a few hours of your time.

All you need to do is wear a t-shirt in support of an energy project for two hours during the public meeting. We will be departing the Tinely Park convention center at 8:15 am for the meeting and we will be back by 1:30 pm. For your time we will pay you $50 cash and provide you lunch once we return to the convention center.

haha that's an awesome idea

That's YOUR interpretation. I'm going with 99%ers, posing as conservatives, run the ad, give out the t's then leak it to media. IT'S A SETUP!

I could see it happen either way.

(05-25-2012 01:00 PM)Brookes Owl Wrote:  That's YOUR interpretation. I'm going with 99%ers, posing as conservatives, run the ad, give out the t's then leak it to media. IT'S A SETUP!

SOAF, when did you change your screen name?

(05-25-2012 01:01 PM)UCF08 Wrote:  I could see it happen either way.

Huh? Is it THAT hard to detect sarcasm here?

(05-25-2012 12:55 PM)Max Power Wrote:  They could have just posted it on here. I'm sure some of you would have done it for free.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/05...a-hearing/

Quote:Apparently unable to find real activists, the coal industry paid astroturfers $50 to wear pro-coal t-shirts at an Environmental Protection Agency hearing yesterday.

The EPA hearings, held yesterday in Chicago and Washington, D.C., were focused on the agency’s first-ever carbon standards for new power plants. The industry has adamantly opposed these standards, as well as standards on mercury — a pollutant that even Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) admits is harmful.

This year, coal is throwing around its weight by spending tens of millions of dollars on media advertising and political contributions.

Coal is also engaging in fake advocacy campaigns, known as astroturfing. In a Craigslist ad found by the Environmental Law & Policy Center in Chicago, a coal group promised participants $50 to “wear a t-shirt in support of an energy project.” Upon further digging, the Sierra Club blog pieced together much of the deleted Craigslist ad:

People needed to attend a public meeting (Tinley Park /Chicago)

Reply to: px6mq-3031150602@gigs.craigslist.org (email address no longer valid)

Looking for people THIS THURSDAY, MAY 24 who want to make a couple of dollars for a few hours of your time.

All you need to do is wear a t-shirt in support of an energy project for two hours during the public meeting. We will be departing the Tinely Park convention center at 8:15 am for the meeting and we will be back by 1:30 pm. For your time we will pay you $50 cash and provide you lunch once we return to the convention center.

Oh yea the left *never* pays people to protest

http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/69...-hypocrisy

The story highlights the hypocrisy of unions. In this case, these protesters are not union members, they are hired from a temp agency, make minimum wage and have had their hours cut from five days a week to three. Of course, the union boss says, “If Wal-Mart were doing the right thing, we wouldn’t need picketers.”

No, I mean I could see either side doing that exact thing. It's not above any extremist (not that their views are extreme, but their passion for them might be) to do what it takes to further their agenda.

It's a SCANDAL I tell you!!

max jumped the shark long ago.

no interest in real life, no interest on message boards.

It could be worse, they could be occupying something, demanding high paying jobs and their college loans forgiven.