Remember when Senator Barack Obama ran for president promising that the days of lobbyists setting the agenda are over? Good times.
Now executive branch agencies are apparently helping the lobbying groups lobby.
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The EPA press office just emailed out a bunch of lobbying groups' statements in favor of new #climate regs. That's … not normal.
— Jim Tankersley (@jimtankersley) June 2, 2014
@jimtankersley EPA did that with auto light duty, heavy duty CAFE, truck regs
— davidshepardson (@davidshepardson) June 2, 2014
Apparently when you like lobbyists, you call them "stakeholders". #EPA
— Jim Tankersley (@jimtankersley) June 2, 2014
Ah, that makes it ok.