Liveblogging The SPN Conference’s Global Warming Forum

2:26: Paul Chesser’s up offering some background on his own “eye-opening” find about a liberal advocacy organization’s stealth campaign to influence state laws without looking like it’s doing so. The basic model: the group will approach the executive branch and urge them to pressure federal authorities (even seeking international agreements) while claiming to be an objective consultant; they seek a “study commission” that the group can run, do all the work from A-Z and bring the money with them; they then stack the commission to get a predetermined outcome seeking drastic action.

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