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Arizona Republic Columnist Lends a Hand to Koch Brothers'
Campaign against EPA Climate Plan
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Arizona Republic Columnist Lends a Hand to Koch Brothers'
Campaign against EPA Climate Plan
Blog
April 8, 2015 2:22 PM EDT
ANDREW SEIFTER
Media Matters for America
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/04/08/
arizona-republic-columnist-lends-a-hand-to-koch/203211
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/k4odrou
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Arizona Republic columnist Doug MacEachern clearly didn't like former
Arizona Corporation Commission chair Kris Mayes' April 7 op-ed, which
alerted the Republic's readers to the Koch brothers' deceptive multi-state
campaign against the EPA's Clean Power Plan. But MacEachern's complaints,
as detailed in an April 8 column, don't stand up to basic scrutiny.
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In her op-ed, Mayes addressed a March 22 Republic op-ed by Tom Jenney, the
Arizona state director of Americans for Prosperity and the Americans for
Prosperity Foundation. Mayes pointed out that Jenney was peddling
"baseless" attacks on the EPA's plan to address climate change by reducing
carbon pollution from power plants, and that Jenney cited an
industry-funded study that has been "thoroughly debunked."
MacEachern began his response by smearing Mayes as an "EPA propagandist."
With that out of the way, MacEachern proceeded to admit to his ignorance
about the fossil fuel interests behind Jenney's op-ed, writing:
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I don't know this for a fact, but I am going to go ahead and guess
that in one way or another Jenney's organization, Americans for
Prosperity, gets some money from the Koch brothers. Whether it's true or
not, what the heck. Let's just put that on the table.
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MacEachern may not know that Americans for Prosperity has been funded by
the oil billionaire Koch brothers, but it's an easily verifiable fact. He
could even have learned it from David Koch himself, who once boasted that
"my brother Charles and I provided the funds to start the Americans for
Prosperity." More to the point, the Koch brothers not only funded but
co-founded the organization that later became the Americans for Prosperity
Foundation, as David Koch alluded to, and it's been well-documented in the
media that AFP is, in Politico's words, "the Koch brothers' main political
arm."
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Next, MacEachern attempted to dismiss Mayes' "obsessive Koch-loathing,"
alleging that AFP's relationship with the Kochs is no different than the
money that "green-minded philanthropic groups" give to "green causes." The
crucial difference, of course, is that MacEachern failed to provide a
shred of evidence that any of the environmental donors he mentioned have a
personal financial stake in promoting the environmental policies they are
supporting. By contrast, the Center for Public Integrity has documented
that oil is the "core of the Koch business empire," and that it is in the
Koch brothers' "commercial interest" to oppose policies -- such as the
Clean Power Plan -- that would reduce America's dependence on carbon-based
energy sources.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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