Fri 30 Oct 2009
House scrutinizes fake lobbyist letters
Posted by Ronit under Morgan Goodwin '08, Politics at 2:02 pm
Some readers may recall Morgan Goodwin ’08’s earlier protests about the naked fraud by lobbying firm Bonner and Associates. NPR had a story on the fraud today, featuring a photo of Morgan in an astroturf suit (click for larger), angry quotes from the chair of the House global warming committee, and a weaseling apology/denial of responsibility from the head of Bonner and Associates:
(h/t Andy Goldston)
Also, Stephen Colbert did a segment on this story a couple of weeks ago:
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Today, Morgan and other activists are conducting a sit-in at the Environmental Protection Agency to protest mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. Live-blog here.
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Morgan says:
Thanks for the update Ronit. The astroturf suits were a hit. And I was doing media support for the sit-in, so not actually inside myself. But it was worth using my day off to help the folks from WV try and get the EPA to stop mountaintop removal coal mining.
Jr. Mom says:
@Morgan
Well done.
Can you tell us a bit more about the suits? Who thought up the idea, how they were constructed, what they felt like, etc.?
JG says:
*LOVE* the astroturf suits. Thanks for all that you do!
Morgan says:
3 thrift store suits, and close to 100 square feet of the cheapest and most flexible astroturf. And then a hot glue gun to put them together – they were quite comfortable, although a little warm, and definitely required cleaning up after because they shed.
The coal lobbyists there looked less comfortable in that hearing, even though they didn’t have prickly plastic on their suits.
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