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*AK_ Lisa Murkowski – R/I;
*AL_ Jeff Sessions – R; *AL_ Richard Shelby – R;
*AR_ John Boozmen – R;
*AZ_ John Kyle – R (Ret.); *AZ_ John McCain – R;
*FL_ Marco Rubio – R;
*GA_ Johnny Isakson – R; *GA_ Saxby Chambliss – R;
*IA_ Chuck Grassley – R;
*ID_ James Risch – R; *ID_ Mike Crapo – R;
*IN_ Dan Coats – R; *IN_ Richard Lugar – R (Ret.);
*KS_ Jerry Moran – R; *KS_ Pat Roberts – R;
*KY_ Mitch McConnell – R; *KY_ Rand Paul – R;
*LA_ David Vitter – R;
*MO_ Roy Blunt – R;
*MS_ Roger Wicker – R; *MS_ Thad Cochran – R;
*NC_ Richard Burr – R;
*ND_ John Hoeven – R;
*NE_ Mike Johanns – R;
*NH_ Kelly Ayotte – R;
*NV_ Dean Heller – R;
*OH_ Rob Portman – R;
*OK_ James Inhofe – R; *OK_ Tom Coburn – R;
*PA_ Pat Toomey –R;
*SC_ James DeMint – R (Ret.); *SC_ Lindsey Graham – R;
*SD_ John Thune – R;
*TN_ Bob Corker – R; *TN_ Lamar Alexander – R;
*TX_ John Cornyn – R; *TX_ Kay Bailey Hutchinson – R (Ret.)/Ted Cruz - R;
*UT_ Mike Lee – R; *UT_ Orin Hatch –R;
*WI_ Ron Johnson – R;
*WV_ Joe Manchin – D;
*WY_ John Barrasso – R; *WY_ Mike Enzi – R;
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U.S. Legislative Br.-(R) Senator Mitch McConnell-08666C, (Republican U.S. Senate Minority Leader 2006-2012 – Kentucky, *KY), Votes 100% For Big-Oil Corps; All GOP Senators & A Couple Blue Dogs; 44 Senators on Oil Mafia Payroll, Tar Sands, Keystone XL Approval Amendments inserted repeatedly into numerous “Unrelated Bills without E.P.A. Environmental Impact Study, just an Oil Industry Funded “Study” ::
Shale Gas, Hydraulic Fracking, Poisonous Stew of Chemicals Injected Into Bedrock, Toxic Sludge Blasted into Groundwater ::
{“44 Senators Behind Keystone Bill Took $22.3 Million In Campaign Cash Form Big Oil” ~ Adam Smith, Public Campaign Action Fund, {Subscriber Supported}, 01-30-12}
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"Keystone pipeline bill gets 44 senators’ approval"
~ Darren Goode - PoliticoPro, {Subscribe}, 01-30-12 :: BB Link/URL
< http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/72148.html
>_^_"The Keystone XL Pipeline"/"The Trouble with Tar Sands"
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"Tar Sands: A Costly Consideration"
~ USCAN Climate Action Network, {Subscriber Supported} :: Link/URL
< http://www.usclimatenetwork.org/tar-sands
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DONORS TRUST CABAL
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Corp Wolf P.A.C. Warlord-0666B01, Corp’s Pandemic “Donors Trust” Cabal, ##
Virginia "Right-Wing Charity;" Increase in dark money donations ::
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Dark Money Org. does not disclose donors funding Climate Change Denial after the Koch Brothers and Exxon slow donations to disclosing P.A.C.’s ::
"Since 1999, the nonprofit charity Donors Trust has handed out nearly $400 million in private donations to more than 1,000 right-wing and libertarian groups." ::
"The most detailed accounting to date shows Donors Trust funds a wish list of right-wing causes, prompting Mother Jones magazine to label it ‘the dark-money ATM of the right.’" :: “…months-long investigation into the Donors Trust called ‘Donors Use Charity to Push Free-Market Policies in STATES.’"
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"Donors Trust: Little-Known Group Helps Wealthy Backers Fund Right-Wing Agenda in Secret"
~ John Dunbar - The Center for Public Integrity, Amy Goodman – Democracy Now, {Subscriber Supported News}, 02-19-13, Video, 12+ Min :: Link/URL*^*< http://www.democracynow.org/2013/2/19/donors_trust_little_known_group_helps
>_^_ The Center for Public Integrity, Politics ::
"KEY FINDINGS:
1.) Donors Trust is a VA-based charity ...$400 million from private donors to free-market causes since 1999.
2.) Dozens of major conservative philanthropies hold Donors Trust accounts ...Charles Koch (Tea Party).
3.) Donors Trust has funded at least 51 state-level, free-market think tanks since 2007.
4.) A conservative media outlet called the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity drew 95 percent of its revenue from Donors Trust in 2011." ::
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"In 2009, a network of online media outlets began popping up in state capitals across the nation, each covering the news from a clearly conservative point of view." ::
"One Donors Trust grant to Mackinac Center was earmarked for “statehouse reporting” efforts. Mackinac put the money toward a media machine of blogs and research studies making the case for the state’s new “right-to-work” law." ::
"Conservative foundations and individuals use Donors Trust to pass money to a vast network of think tanks and media outlets that push free-market ideology in the states — $86 million in 2011 alone." ::
"Nonprofit group lets donors fly 'totally under the radar'"
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"Donors use charity to push free-market policies in states"
~ Paul Abowd - The Center for Public Integrity, {Subscriber Supported}, 02-14-13 :: Link/URL
< http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/02/14/12181/donors-use-charity-push-free-market-policies-states
>_^_ Mother Jones Exposes Tax Records of Donors Trust ::
IRS Tax Form 990: Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax - Under section 501(c), 527, or 4947(a)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code - 2011 - $39,267,594 taken in ::
"list of all of Donors Trust's 2011 grants:" ~ Right-Wing-Recipient Orgs.
"Bankrolls the Heartland Institute, a shrill flag-bearer for climate-change denialism; the American Legislative Exchange Council, the right-wing bill mill; ...slew of think tanks and advocacy shops promoting an anti-union, free-market agenda. As The Nation's Ari Berman recently reported, Donors Trust is also the sole funder of the Project on Fair Representation, ...gut the Voting Rights Act."
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"Exclusive: Donors Trust, The Right's Dark-Money ATM, Paid Out $30 Million in 2011"
~ Andy Kroll - Mother Jones, {Subscriber Supported}, 02-11-13 Link/URL
< http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/02/donors-trust-2011-dark-money-heritage-cato-unions
>_^_ Right-Wing Attacking Voting Rights, The Nation ::
"bipartisan consensus that supported the VRA for nearly fifty years has collapsed, and conservatives are challenging the law ...Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to Section 5 of the VRA, which compels parts or all of sixteen states with a history of racial discrimination in voting to clear election-related changes ...The case will be heard on February 27. The lawsuit, originating in ...Alabama, is backed by leading operatives and funders ...along with Republican attorneys general in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, South Carolina, South Dakota and Texas. Shelby County’s brief claims that 'Section 5’s federalism cost is too great'"
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"Why Are Conservatives Trying to Destroy the Voting Rights Act?"
~ Ari Berman - The Nation, {Subscriber Supported}, 02-05-13 :: Link/URL
< http://www.thenation.com/article/172685/why-are-conservatives-trying-destroy-voting-rights-act#
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