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2/25/13,
"Tom Ridge: 'Climate change is a national security threat'," pennlive.com.
...
GOP clubhouse hack Tom Ridge
has been a paid board member of Exelon nuclear power company since 2005.
As a guest on MSNBC in 2010 Ridge advocated a green agenda starting with nuclear power.
He received over $200,000 from Exelon in 2011 alone.
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Has-been George Schultz is part of the Tom Ridge nuclear power/green/CO2 terror group noted above and very busy standing guard at the GOP clubhouse door:
7/13/12,
"George Shultz Endorses Carbon Tax – You Were Surprised?" GlobalWarming.org, Marlo Lewis
"This pattern is becoming boringly familiar....
There has always been a wing
of the GOP — the “establishment,” “Country Club,” or “Rockefeller”
Republicans — who care more about controlling the party than about
advancing liberty or even about winning elections. AEI’s Ken Green (a colleague of Hassett’s) hits the nail on the head. In a story on Shultz’s endorsement of carbon taxes, Green told Climatewire: (subscrip):
“There seems to be an eruption of conservatives — very moderate-seeming conservatives, non-tea party, old country club-style conservatives — who are suddenly enamored of carbon tax,” said Kenneth Green, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
“I think this is mostly vanity and egotism on the part of these people who are coming forward, to try and reassert the Republican establishment over the tea party revolution,” he added.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if we have more of these guys weigh in.”(begin parag. 11)...
As noted here,
earlier this week, former Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.) launched a new
institute with Rockefeller Family Fund backing
[oil money] to promote carbon taxes as a ‘Republican idea.’...
"Yes, that George Shultz,
President Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of State. But not everyone who
served with Reagan was a Reaganite. Reagan’s VP, G.H.W. Bush, famously
campaigned on a platform of “Read my lips: No New Taxes.” Not two years
later he raised taxes in a 1990 budget deal that torpedoed the economy
and sank his presidency.
Yesterday, in an interview puff piece penned
by two associates, Shultz, a distinguished fellow at Stanford
University’s Hoover Institution, called for a ‘revenue-neutral’ carbon
tax. This is unsurprising. As the article reminds us, in 2010, Shultz,
partnering with Tom Steyer, a Democrat, “led the successful campaign to
defeat Proposition 23, a California ballot initiative to suspend the
state’s ambitious law to curb greenhouse gases.”"...
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Nuclear power co. Exelon favored and stood to gain from cap and trade. Ridge is a paid director of Exelon, holds a lot of their stock.
Unfortunately for Ridge, the global warming party is over in the US. US CO2 emissions have plunged while other countries' haven't. Coal use will only increase for billions in China, India, for the Zetas in Northern Mexico and others. The contiguous US is only 1.5% of the planet. Even if our CO2 went to zero it wouldn't help the planet.
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Tom Ridge functioned as a lobbyist for the Albanian government but failed to register as such until two years after he won a big contract from them and was contacted by the US Dept. of Justice:
June 24, 2008, "Ridge lobbies for Albania, but doesn't report it,"pennlive.com, Brett Lieberman
"Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge registered
with the Department of Justice as a lobbyist for the government of
Albania nearly two years after winning an almost half-million dollar
lobbying contract, Roll Call reports this morning.
(Hat tip GrassrootsPa)
"I didn't think it was [necessary] to register," the Capitol Hill
newspaper quotes the former Pennsylvania governor and national co-chair
of John McCain's presidential campaign as saying.
"It was brought to my attention after the contract expired and my
lawyer said under the circumstances I probably should have filed," Ridge
said. Ridge registered after he was contacted by the Justice Department."
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Tom Ridge is a member along with Jeb Bush of the GOP establishment group "American Action Forum." Its 'sister' group American Action Network spent $590,000 running ads for Richard Lugar against Tea Party supported Richard Mourdock. Following are 3 citations about the group:
2/9/13, "Mitch McConnell Had Previously Floated Karl Rove Idea To Target Weak Tea Party Candidates," Huffington Post, Peter H. Stone
"The (American Action) Network has focused mainly on helping the GOP win House races,
but Malek pointed out that his group had also run ads in some Senate
primaries: The group ran ads to help Kelly Ayotte, who won in New
Hampshire, and Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, who lost his primary battle
to conservative darling Richard Mourdock, who went on to lose in
November.
“I wouldn’t hesitate to do it again in the future if we saw the need,” Malek said."
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4/19/12, "Senate Races 2012: Republican Establishment Tries To Tamp Down Tea Party Insurgency," Huffington Post, Paul Blumenthal
"Last week, the American Action Network, a conservative group with ties
to the Republican Party in Washington, D.C., launched a campaign of
negative ads against Mourdock, costing $590,000. Major donors, including
former fundraisers for President George W. Bush and McCain, are putting
money into pro-Lugar super PACs."...
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"The American Action Network," factcheck.org
"The American Action Network was formed in February 2010
by Norm Coleman, a former Republican senator from Minnesota, and
Rob Collins, a former chief of staff to House Minority Whip Eric Cantor....Prominent board members of the network also include Mississippi Gov.
Haley Barbour, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, and Ed Gillespie, a former
chairman of the Republican National Committee."...
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Tom Ridge and his friends represent K Street.
4/19/12, "K Street and Tea Party again fight for soul of GOP," Washington Examiner, Timothy P. Carney
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Tom Ridge on MSNBC in 2010 said Obama should go all out with his green agenda by first going big into nuclear power. Viewers were not told Ridge was a paid member of Exelon's executive board, Exelon being the largest nuclear co. in the US:
The Media-Lobbying Complex
2/11/10, "The Media-Lobbying Complex," The Nation, Sebastian Jones
The Media-Lobbying Complex
The Media-Lobbying Complex
"President Obama spent most of December 4 touring Allentown,
Pennsylvania, meeting with local workers and discussing the economic
crisis. A few hours later, the state's former governor, Tom Ridge, was
on MSNBC's Hardball With Chris Matthews, offering up his
own recovery plan. There were "modest things" the White House might try,
like cutting taxes or opening up credit for small businesses, but the
real answer was for the president to "take his green agenda and blow it
out of the box." The first step, Ridge explained, was to "create nuclear
power plants." Combined with some waste coal and natural gas
extraction, you would have an "innovation setter" that would "create
jobs, create exports."
As Ridge counseled the administration to "put that package together," he sure seemed like an objective commentator. But what viewers weren't told was
that since 2005, Ridge has pocketed $530,659 in executive compensation
for serving on the board of Exelon, the nation's largest nuclear power
company. As of March 2009, he also held an estimated $248,299 in Exelon
stock, according to SEC filings."...
seemed
like an objective commentator. But what viewers weren't told was that
since 2005, Ridge has pocketed $530,659 in executive compensation for
serving on the board of Exelon, the nation's largest nuclear power
company. As of March 2009, he also held an estimated $248,299 in Exelon
stock, according to SEC filings. - See more at:
http://www.thenation.com/article/media-lobbying-complex#sthash.s2OsUcVm.dpuf
President
Obama spent most of December 4 touring Allentown, Pennsylvania, meeting
with local workers and discussing the economic crisis. A few hours
later, the state's former governor, Tom Ridge, was on MSNBC's Hardball With Chris Matthews,
offering up his own recovery plan. There were "modest things" the White
House might try, like cutting taxes or opening up credit for small
businesses, but the real answer was for the president to "take his green
agenda and blow it out of the box." The first step, Ridge explained,
was to "create nuclear power plants." Combined with some waste coal and
natural gas extraction, you would have an "innovation setter" that would
"create jobs, create exports." - See more at:
http://www.thenation.com/article/media-lobbying-complex#sthash.s2OsUcVm.dpuf
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(Ed. note: Since the article below was written one or more of Ridge's lobbying assignments may have changed. His own firm "Ridge Global" appears to still be in business.)
6/13/11, ""A Laugher: Tom Ridge Says, "I'm Not a Lobbyist" on Colbert Report," prwatch.org, Steve Horn
"Tom Ridge, on the Thursday, June 9 edition of the Colbert Report, claimed he is "not a lobbyist." A quick glance at his resume shows that nothing could be further from the truth.
Ridge, now 65 years-old, has worn multiple hats throughout his
extensive political career.
Among them: first-ever head of the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under the
Bush Administration
from 2003-2005, former Governor of Pennsylvania from 1995-2001, and
former Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from from
1983-1995.
Upon leaving the DHS in 2005, Ridge started his career as a lobbyist, opening a lobby shop known as Ridge Global, located in Washington, D.C, which he still currently heads. Beyond this stint, though, Ridge is also a paid "consultant" (a.k.a. lobbyist) for the Marcellus Shale Coaltion, a "trade association" in disguise that in reality is a methane gas industry-funded lobbying group.
That aside, the Pennsylvania Department of State's lobbyist registry contains the real smoking gun evidence.
The registry shows that the Coalition has 11 lobbyists registered to advocate for fracking in the Marcellus Shale region, and in Pennsylvania in particular, among those listed include Coalition Executive Director Kathryn Klaber and Ridge. The registry also shows that their paychecks come from none other than Ridge Global. Open Secrets, a project of the Center for Responsive Politics, shows that since 2010, the Marcellus Shale Coalition has recieved $90,000 from Ridge Global. Open Secrets also shows that Ridge is currently a paid lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, chairing their National Security Task Force. Furthermore, he is the current recipient of a $900,000/year paycheck from the Marcellus Shale Coalition.
Yet though the evidence against his claim is quite damning, Ridge had the chutzpah to begin his June 9, 2011 interview on Stephen Colbert's Colbert Report by claiming he is "not a lobbyist."
Not a lobbyist? Yeah, right.
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1/6/11, "Secretary Tom Ridge to Chair U.S. Chamber’s National Security Task Force," uschamber.com
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10/13/2009,
"Exelon chief endorses bill on emissions He said a cap-and-trade system of controls would work best." philly.com, A. Maykuth
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2/26/13, "Tough Truths from China on CO2 and Climate," Andrew Revkin, NY Times, Dot Earth
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Coal mining is "more lucrative for Zetas than selling drugs."
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11/17/12, "Mexican druglords strike gold in coal," AFP via Gloucester City News
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