Doesn’t government have anything better to do with its time than try to regulate your beer? Apparently Ohio legislators have too much time on their hands.

Ohio Senate bill 48 was introduced Feb. 20 of this year and sent to the House on March 21. It received a single hearing by the House, which amended it, it was then approved by the House and Senate and sent to Ohio Governor John Kasich for signature. He signed the bill into law on April 23.

At first glance it appears to be fairly benign, setting up a two-tiered system for licensing which would allow smaller breweries to sell retail directly and bypass wholesale distributors. But digging deeper shows a completely different story. From Thurber’s Thoughts:

It does a number of others things, but one aspect generated some controversy: it prohibits large brewers from owning a distributor.

And that was a problem for many, but especially Anheuser-Busch InBev which has numerous options to purchase, or determine the purchaser, of distributorships throughout the state. So they objected to the terms of the bill – and the rapid process with which it was passed.

Now, the Ohio legislature is trying yet again to unnecessarily intervene in the free market and pick winners and losers in the marketplace.

Anheuser sent this letter to Ohio Speaker Batchelder :

“The buying and selling of distributorships is the natural movement and realignment of a vibrant, competitive marketplace. MillerCoors wants you to abandon a long-held principle that government has no business picking winners and losers in the private marketplace, and instead is asking you to put a heavy thumb on the scale in their favor to compensate for MillerCoors’ own business decisions.”

MillerCoors does not, as a part of its business strategy, purchase distributorships, yet it is asking the government to prohibit other competitors from doing so. From Anheuser’s letter comes more:

“MillerCoors has elected as a part of its business strategy not to purchase and own distributorships in Ohio despite being free to do so. Anheuser Busch has utilized a different strategy…now MillerCoors, presumably because its strategy isn’t working, asks you to change the rules.”

Specifically, MillerCoors wants the government to force Anheuser Busch to divest itself from distributors that it already owns. In a letter from Paul Lucas of MillerCoors to the Ohio Senate president Keith Faber:

“This further expansion represents a major threat to the health of MillerCoors in Ohio and could create a permanent, statutory competitive disadvantage for the company and its independent MillerCoors wholesale distributors.”

In reality, MillerCoors is asking for the Ohio legislature to side with them and intervene in the free marketplace; the government should not be picking sides or winners and losers. See Anheuser’s fears:

“MillerCoors’ adds insult to injury, knowing that if it gets you to side with its business, the two Anheuser Busch distributorships in question will be substantially devalued because the marketplace will know that Anheuser Busch is being forced by law to sell. This kind of intrusion into private business should not be the job of the government.”

So the bottom line is there are two separate issues here. The first one is the original bill, SB 48, which prohibits brewers from buying distributors. Anheuser Busch was against it, since they own distributorships. MillerCoors was for it, since they don’t own any and it’s not part of their business model.

The second issue is the one we’re dealing with now. Distributorships already owned by Anheuser Busch, including one in Canton (the one in question here) were grandfathered in under the bill, and Anheuser Busch is trying to buy more before the legislation takes effect.

MillerCoors is basically asking the government to force Anheuser Busch to sell the distributorships that they already own and prohibit them from buying more before the law takes effect, claiming an unfair competitive advantage.

The irony is that the only reason it’s an “unfair advantage” is because MillerCoors pushed for the law in the first place. They’re essentially using the Ohio legislature as their company’s legal arm, trying to change the rules.

Evidently legislators in Ohio are not in favor of a free market where beer companies are allowed to purchase distributorships if they so please.

An open letter on the Senate immigration bill.

We write to express our serious concerns regarding the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill, S. 744. We oppose this bill and urge you to vote against it when it comes to the Senate floor. No matter how well intentioned, the Schumer-Rubio bill suffers from fundamental design flaws that make it unsalvageable. Many of us support various parts of the legislation, but the overall package is so unsatisfactory that the Senate would do better to start over from scratch.

We have a variety of concerns; some of us share only one, others share all. Among these concerns are that the bill:

• Is bloated and unwieldy along the lines of Obamacare or Dodd-Frank;
• Cedes excessive control over immigration law to an administration that has repeatedly proven itself to be untrustworthy, even duplicitous;
• Legalizes millions of illegal immigrants before securing the borders, thus ensuring future illegal immigration;
• Rewards law breakers and punishes law enforcement, undermining the rule of law;
• Hurts American job-seekers, especially those with less education;
• Threatens to bankrupt our already strained entitlement system;
• Expands government by creating new bureaucracies, authorizing new spending, and calling for endless regulations;
• Contains dangerous loopholes that threaten national security;
• Is shot through with earmarks for politically connected interest groups;
• Overwhelms our immigration bureaucracy, guaranteeing widespread fraud.

Reforming our immigration system is an important priority. But S.744 is such a defective measure that it would do more harm than good. We urge you to vote against it and against any cloture vote to bring up the bill. Only then can a constructive, measured debate take place on how to improve America’s immigration policy.

Signed (affiliations are included for identification purposes only):

List of Gang of 8 Coalition Opposition Letter Signers 

National Conservative Leaders

Barbara Anderson, Citizens for Limited Taxation

Gary Bauer, Campaign for Working Families 

Rev. C.L. Bryant, One Nation Back to God

Howie Carr, New England Talk Radio Host

Conn Carroll, Senior Editorial Writer, Washington Examiner

Ann Corcoran, Refugee Resettlement Watch

Monica Crowley, Ph.D., Nationally Syndicated Radio Host

Glynn Custred, Professor Emeritus CSU East Bay

Jim Eagan, Sumner United for Responsible Government (Tennessee)

Elaine Donnelly, Founder and President, Center for Military Readiness

John Eastman, former Dean Chapman University Law School

Ken Eldred, CEO, Living Stones Foundation

Erick Erickson, Editor of RedState

Maria Espinoza, Houston Eagle Forum, The Remembrance Project

T. Willard Fair, President & CEO, Urban League of Greater Miami, Inc.

John Fonte, Hudson Institute

David Frum, Frum Forum

Brigitte Gabriel, President and Founder, Act for America

Frank Gaffney, President Center for Security Policy

Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Donna Hearne, Constitutional Coalition, St. Louis, Missouri

John Hinderaker, Powerline.com

David Horowitz, David Horowitz Freedom Center

Laura Ingraham, Nationally Syndicated Radio Host

Micky Kaus, Columnist, Daily Caller, author The End of Equality

Roger Kimball, Encounter Books and The New Criterion

Cliff Kincaid, President, America’s Survival

Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies

Stanley Kurtz, Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center

Kelly Monroe Kullberg, Christians for a Sustainable Economy

Stanley Kurtz, Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center

Lars Larson, Radio Host Compass Media Networks

Mark Levin, Author and Radio Host

David Limbaugh, Lawyer and Author

Herb London, President of the London Center for Policy Research

Dr. Gina Loudon, Nationally Syndicated Radio Talk Show host

Michelle Malkin, author of Invasion and syndicated columnist

Ed Martin, Chairman Missouri Republican Party

Jenny Beth Martin, Co-Founder and National Coordinator, Tea Party Patriots

Ken Masugi, Senior Fellow, The Claremont Institute

Andy McCarthy, executive director, Philadelphia Freedom Center

Eric Metaxas, Author and Speaker

Paul Mirengoff, Powerline.com

Frank L. Morris, Sr., Ph. D.

Mike Needham, CEO Heritage Action

Peter K. Núñez, Former U. S Attorney Southern District of California, Former Assistant Secretary for Enforcement Department of the Treasury

Rev. Rick Scarborough; President of Vision America Action

Smart Girl Politics Action

Carol Swain, Professor of Political Science and of Law, Vanderbilt University

Tea Party Nation

Virginia Thomas, Liberty Consulting

Brad Thor, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author

Richard Viguerie

Former Congressman Allen West

Tom West, Professor Hillsdale College

Tim Wildmon, President of the American Family Association and American Family Radio

John O’Sullivan, Editor-at-Large, National Review

Daniel Pipes, President, Middle East Forum

Judson Phillips, Founder Tea Party Nation

Andy Ramirez, Law Enforcement Advocate and Journalist

Sandy Rios, Vice-President Family PAC Federal and Morning Host for AFR Talk

Phyllis Schlafly, President and Founder Eagle Forum

Grassroots Activists throughout the Country 

Alabama Federation of Republican Women

American Grizzlies United (Wisconsin)

Angela Bean, Coordinator South Atlanta Tea Party Patriots (Georgia)

Blanchard Tea Party (Idaho)

Jack and Joan Billman, Greencastle Defenders of Liberty, Greencastle, Indiana

Martha Brewer, Lamar County Tea Party Patriots (Alabama)

Canton T.E.A. Party (Georgia)

Sam Clovis, President Serious Civics for America, Inc. (Iowa)

Common Sense Campaign of South Alabama

Carroll County Tea Party Association (Georgia)

Darin Danielski, Lake County Area Defenders of Liberty, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin

Dyersville Tea Party (Iowa)

Kay Edmonds, Precinct Delegate, Clinton, MI, l9.12 Forum Steering Committee Member, Lenawee GOP Executive Committee Member, Veteran (Post Korea)

Empower Indiana (Indiana)

Hamilton County Patriots (Indiana)

Mark Herr,  The Midsouth Tea Party (Tennessee)

Dustin Inmman Society, Georgia

Bill & Prudence Fields, Eagle Forum Virginia

Friends of Idaho

Georgia Conservatives in Action

Kay Godwin and Pat Tippett, Co-Chairs, Georgia Conservatives in Action

Becky Gerritson, President Wetumpka TEA Party, Wetumpka, Alabama

Donna Goeddaeus, Northwoods Patriots Tea Party, Conover, Wisconsin

Green Bay (Brown County) Wisconsin TEA Party

Greencastle Defenders of Liberty (Indiana)

Ron Hei, Tea Party Patriots of Covington County

Wally Hauck, Ph.D., President of Optimum Leadership, Member of Milford, CT Republican Town Committee

Marcia Hora, Iowa Grassroots Coalition

Illinois Tea Party

Danny B. Joyner, Commander, Alabama Patriots, Brewton, Alabama

Dave Kramer, Dyersville Tea Party (Iowa)

Las Vegas Valley Tea Party (Nevada)

Janna Loar, State Leader Ohio Counts

Michigan Eagle Forum

Montgomery Tea Party (Alabama)

Lisa Nancollas, Mifflin County Tea Party Patriots and Pennsylvania State Coordinator Tea Party Patriots

Sara Jo Odom, Eagle Forum Oklahoma

Patriots of Liberty TEA Party, Auburn, Alabama

Bobbie Patray, President Eagle Forum Tennessee

Carol Payne, Eagle Forum Lubbock, Texas

Pennsylvania Coalition for Responsible Government

John Putnam, Chairman, Jasper County Republican Central Committee (Missouri)

Merre Putnam, State Committewoman, 32^nd Senatorial District

Steve Ramey and David Hancock, Gwinnett Tea Party (Atlanta)

Russell Ramland Park Cities/Preston Hollow Leadership Forum, Dallas, Texas

Jennifer Schubert-Akin, Activist Steamboat Springs, Colorado

Janet Smith, Local Coordinator, Greenfield Area Tea Party, Greenfield Indiana

Standpoint Tea Party Patriots (Idaho)

Rainy Day Patriots (Alabama)

Jeff Schwilk, San Diegans for Secure Borders Coalition

Kim Simac and Shirley Kufeldt, Northwood Patriots, Eagle River, Wisconsin

Todd Isaac “Ike” Skelton Lebanon Tea Party (Missouri)

Janet Smith, Greenfield Area Tea Party (Indiana)

Loretta and Ricky Short, Wetumpka TEA Party (Alabama)

Eunie Smith, President, Eagle Forum of Alabama

South West Pennsylvania Eagle Forum

Pam Stout, Idaho State Coordinator, Tea Party Patriots

Barbara Susco, Florida Eagle Forum

Taxed Enough Already Party, Barbour County, Alabama

Taxed Enough Already Party, Quitman County, Georgia

Tea Party North (Indiana)

Vanderburgh County Tea Party Patriots (Indiana)

Dawn Wildman SoCal Tax Revolt Coalition, Inc.

Don and Skeet Workman, Eagle Forum Lubbock, Texas

Sally Zelikovsky, Founder of Bay Area Patriots and Coordinator of San Francisco Tea Party

Dennis Zellaha, Tea Party Patriots and Iowa Grassroots Coalition (Iowa)

Please see the video below of Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) grilling former IRS Chief Steve Miller as the hearings yesterday. Excerpt of exchange below the video.

“If you think it’s uncomfortable sitting over there,” Kelly told former IRS Chief Steve Miller as he grilled him over revelations the IRS targeted “tea party” and “patriot” groups for heightened scrutiny on tax-exempt status applications, “you ought to be a private individual when the IRS is across from you asking you questions.

“I have to tell you,” Kelly said to Miller, who resigned on Wednesday at the request of the White House, “where you’re sitting, you should be outraged. But you’re not.

“The American people should be outraged, and they are,” he continued. “This reaffirms everything the American public believes. This is a huge blow to the faith and trust the American people have in their government. Is there any limit to the scope of where you folks can go?”

Kelly refused to accept the Obama administration’s defense, that the abuses were simply the actions of some rogue underlings in a Cincinnati office of the IRS.

“When the IRS comes in, you’re not allowed to be shoddy, you’re not allowed to be run horribly, you’re not allowed to make mistakes, you’re not allowed to do one d— thing that doesn’t come in compliance,” Kelly blasted. “If you do, you’re held responsible right then.”

When Kelly concluded with the words, “This is absolutely an overreach, and this is an outrage for all America,” the gallery erupted in applause.

In a follow-up message via Twitter, Kelly said he was “humbled” by the standing ovation.

This story has LEGS. Update 5-11-13 10:23 pm. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Boustany sends a letter to acting IRS Commissioner Steve Miller demanding ALL communication re: conservative groups be turned over by Wednesday, May 15, 2013. IRS KNEW Tea Party groups were being targeted as early as 2011 but continued.

Update May 11, 2013 10:04 pm.  Jewish group is filing a lawsuit against IRS for saying they were under “additional scrutiny” because they were connected to Israel.

In February of 2012 I was asked to be part of a team to investigate the IRS slow-walking of tax exempt status requests and what soon became the apparent harassment of Conservative groups and Tea Parties.

As the demand letters from the IRS poured in asking for voluminous information such as group members, copies of Facebook pages, who speakers were, copies of website pages, etc. it appeared these groups had been targeted in an election year probably to deplete funds and time. The IRS has been used for political purposes for years but this raises the question whether and if any person or group disagrees with the federal government could they be targeted for audit or worse.

Interestingly enough the IRS letters originated from the same office and were signed by the same personnel no matter what state the liberty group was in: HI, OH, KY, TX, VA, NJ and more. And that office was in Cincinnati, Ohio.

My last entry is here and one can backtrack to the beginning. Leading the charge was former Ohio Liberty Council (now Ohio Liberty Coalition) president Tom Zawistowski. Through the efforts of many Tea Party leaders and with the assistance of crack liberty defender Jay Sekulow and his American Center for Liberty and Justice the ball started rolling with Congressional representatives including Darrell Issa and Jim Jordan sending “demand letters* to the IRS asking them to respond to these unusual intrusions and questions asked by the IRS. The Congressional representatives gave the IRS the same amount of time to respond as *they* gave the Tea Parties and other liberty groups: about two weeks and using the same language as the IRS.

The Ohio Liberty Coalition stated to the IRS they would not comply with the demands and finally got their tax exempt status in December of 2012. About one month after the election. Coincidence maybe, but: Out of the blue on May 10 of this year IRS agent Lois Lerner, who heads the tax-exempt unit, issued an *apology* to these liberty groups:

At a lawyers’ conference in Washington, Lois Lerner, a senior IRS career employee who overseas tax exempt organizations, admitted that agency employees singled out particular groups for extra scrutiny using key words with political overtones. ”They used names like tea party or patriots. And they selected cases simply because the application had those names in the title. That was wrong. The IRS would like to apologize for that,” said Lerner.

But this contradicts testimony of former IRS Chief Douglas Schulman who stated:

“There’s absolutely no targeting. This is the kind of back-and-forth process that happens when people apply,” said Shulman.

Tom Zawistowski issued this statement via email:

Tom Zawistowski, Executive Director of the Portage County TEA Party and recent Past President of the Ohio Liberty Coalition, which first refused to comply with the IRS demands for information in February of 2012, said “We will accept Ms. Lerner’s apology as being appropriate, because what the IRS did was wrong and we proved it was wrong.  However, we can not accept her statement that this attack on our organizations and our liberty was orchestrated by low-level IRS employees in the Cincinnati office. We have proof that the same questions were being asked of groups from Virginia to Hawaii.  We have further proof that agents admitted that they were being told by “higher ups” not to process applications from “TEA Party Groups”.  Our legal representatives, the American Center for Law and Justice, has information from groups all over the nation that substantiate this pattern of abuse.”

WASHINGTON- Ahead of an impending report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), the Internal Revenue Service today disclosed that it had targeted certain tax-exempt organizations for their political beliefs. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio., requested the IG look into allegations of political retaliation last June. In response to the today’s disclosure and apology by IRS, Issa and Jordan issued the following statement: “The fact that Americans were targeted by the IRS because of their political beliefs is unconscionable. The Committee will aggressively follow up on the IG report and hold responsible officials accountable for this political retaliation.”

This story which broke on a Friday afternoon in the midst of the Benghazi debacle made more headlines, with the AP, CBS and even NBC picking it up than it did when the original complaints originated last year.

Crossposted at Unified Patriots and Grumpy Elder

Myths from Gasland:

MYTH: “What I didn’t know was that the 2005 energy bill pushed through Congress by Dick Cheney exempts the oil and natural gas industries from the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act…and about a dozen other environmental regulations.”

THE FACTS:

· The oil and natural gas industry is regulated under every single one of these federal laws — under provisions of each that are relevant to its operations.

· The 2005 energy bill was supported by nearly three-quarters of the U.S. Senate, including then-Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. In the U.S. House, 75 Democrats joined 200 Republicans in supporting the final bill.

MYTH “Fracking chemicals are considered proprietary.”

THE FACTS:

· The entire universe of additives used in the fracturing process is known to the public and the state agencies that represent them.

· Not only do individual states mandate disclosure, the federal government does as well. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) mandates this information be kept at every wellsite, and made readily available to response and medical personnel in case of an emergency.

MYTH: “The fracking itself is like a mini-earthquake…. In order to frack, you need some fracking fluid — a mix of over 596 chemicals.”

THE FACTS:

· The fracturing process uses a mixture of fluids comprised almost entirely (99.5%) of water and sand. The remaining materials, used to help deliver the water down the wellbore, are typically found and used around the house. The average fracturing operation utilizes fewer than 12 of these components, according to the Ground Water Protection Council — not 596.

· Over the course of its history, fracturing has not only been used to increase the flow of oil and natural gas from existing wells, but also to access things like water and geothermal energy. It’s even been used by EPA to clean up Superfund sites.

GENERAL MYTHS ABOUT FRACKING:

MYTH: Flaming water is the result of natural gas drilling

THE FACTS:

Colorado regulators issued a detailed refutation of the alleged link between shale drilling and flammable well water portrayed in the flawed documentary, “Gasland.” They noted that naturally occurring biogenic methane, unrelated to drilling, was the cause of flammable well water.

ProPublica explained, “Drinking water with methane, the largest component of natural gas, isn’t necessarily harmful. The gas itself isn’t toxic — the Environmental Protection Agency doesn’t even regulate it — and it escapes from water quickly, like bubbles in a soda.”

Methane-borne water is actually a naturally occurring phenomenon with which even Gen. George Washington experimented in 1783 when he ignited New Jersey’s Millstone River.

MYTH: Drilling is contaminating groundwater

THE FACTS:

Claims of groundwater contamination have been so deeply flawed that even Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson has publicly and categorically refuted them.

 In no case have we made a definitive determination that [hydraulic fracturing] has caused chemicals to enter groundwater.

 “I’m not aware of any proven case where [hydraulic fracturing] itself has affected water.”

THE FACTS:

Michelle Bamberger, an Ithaca, New York, veterinarian, and Robert Oswald, a professor of molecular medicine at Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine, published an article suggesting a link between hydraulic fracturing and illness in food animals.

The piece is decidedly unscientific, providing neither data nor independent corroboration to support their assertions.

Energy In Depth notes that Dr. Ian Rae, a professor at the University of Melbourne in Australia and Co-chair of the Chemicals Technical Options Committee for the United Nations Environment Programme, called the paper “an advocacy piece” that suffers from poor referencing, and the authors themselves “cannot be regarded as experts” in the field in which they are commenting.

MYTH:  Natural gas drilling as a process that’s laced with harmful chemicals

THE FACTS:

Even while states are moving to join those which already require disclosure of substances used in hydraulic fracturing, the industry routinely uses the online database FracFocus.org. Any visitor to the site can find out additives are being used at any well site in the database.

Typically, water and sand account 99.5 percent of the mix. One of the most frequently used substances in the other one-half of one percent is guar gum, a food thickening agent found in everything from ice cream to pudding.

In a related story, Yoko Ono, Matt Damon and Sean Lennon have gone on the warpath against fracking in New York. Their group called Artists Against Fracking is being investigated on lobbying violations at the request of The Independent Oil and Gas Association. This sign has been erected in New York by the pro-fracking group “Frack Nation”:

Crossposted at Unified Patriots and Grumpy Opinions

Image at right from Watchdog.org.

Once you get yourself in quicksand and start flailing around, the harder it is to extricate yourself.

That’s exactly what seems to be happening with the campaign of Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate and former DNC Chair Terry McAuliffe.

McAuliffe’s troubles began in 2009 with a failed Virginia gubernatorial run. He then became chairman of a car company called Green Tech which was supposed to manufacture golf-cart size cars, as shown in picture above, which run on electricity.

But he didn’t plan to build the plant in Virginia, but instead in Mississippi after then Mississippi republican Governor Haley Barbour promised to grant $5 million in public loans to build the plant. McAuliffe was questioned as to why he didn’t plan to build the plant in his home state of Virginia, and his excuse was Virginia didn’t want to bid on the program. However news outlets later discovered Virginia claimed they never received enough information from McAuliffe in order to proceed. Not only did Virginia claim they didn’t receive enough information, apparently worries began in the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) not only did McAuliffe have a risky business model but the real goal  was to use the company to sell wealthy foreigners business visas under the U.S. EB-5 program.

NRO reveals internal communications within VEDP:

Sandi et al. Even if the company has investors “lined up”, I maintain serious concerns about the establishment of an EB-5 center in general, and most specifically based on this company. Not only based on (lack of) management expertise, (lack of) market preparation, etc. but also still can’t get my head around this being anything other than a visa-for-sale scheme with potential national security implications that we have no way to confirm or discount. . . .

This “feels” like a national political play instead of a Virginia economic development opportunity. I am not willing to stake Virginia’s reputation on this at this juncture.

Under the federal EB-5 program a foreigner must invest at least $1 million or $500,000 in a rural area. Many of the visa recipients come from China. While the visa centers cannot sell visas, they can direct an investor on the procedure and projects available to obtain them.

Gulf Coast Funds Management LLC is a company which handles EB-5 projects and it’s interesting one of their clients is Green Tech. The plant has never been built and in February of 2013 it was revealed McAuliffe had stepped down as chairman with nary a peep to anyone outside the company. Not only is he no longer chairman but the company is reportedly being hit with a large tax bill of $17,000 in Tunica Cty Mississippi which was due February 1 and was delinquent for 3 months. Green Tech is exempt from property tax for 10 years, however this tax bill was for small start-up office space.

So no plant, no jobs and no cars. As of yet. Supposedly they will be available late 2013 or in 2014.

McAuliffe’s opponent, Virginia Republican and present Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli had this to say about McAuliffe’s failure to inform the public he had stepped down from Green Tech:

Terry McAuliffe on Saturday claimed he wasn’t being shady by silently stepping down as Chairman of GreenTech. In fact, he went as far as to say that he, “told everyone who asked,” he no longer held the position.

Why would anyone ask?

Not only did numerous news articles go uncorrected, but he continued to speak as if he was chairman and was referred to as “chairman” in a GreenTech release after his resignation.

Bottom Line: McAuliffe deceived the people of Virginia. What else is Terry hiding?

And this came to light yesterday. Green Tech is suing Watchdog.org for alleged libel, complaining they were responsible for an $85 million loss by the company after reporting on Green Tech’s troubles:

“Specifically, as a direct and express result of the articles published by Defendants … investors are wavering in their commitment to provide $25 million in investments already promised to GTA,” the lawsuit said. “GTA…intended to raise $60 million in capital, (and) is now in significant danger as a direct result of the loss of investor confidence in GTA arising from the publication of Defendants’ articles.”

Watchdog claims there is no basis for the suit.

Perhaps Cuccinelli should shoot one over the bow for this found on McAuliffe’s website. Notice the bolding:

But maybe Cuccinelli can relax a bit. McAuliffe is using the mega progressive/Democrat fundraising site of ActBlue in his campaign. As of yesterday McAuliffe has raised only a measly $12,000:

“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when we practice to deceive.” 

Crossposted at Unified Patriots and Grumpy Opinions