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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-29-11 09:54 AM Original message |
Nuclear Energy Institute spent $545k lobbying in first quarter |
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ensho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-29-11 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
1. kick |
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txlibdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-29-11 10:12 PM Response to Original message |
2. If your OP claimed to be anything but an anti-nuke smear campaign... |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-30-11 05:31 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. The Nuclear Energy Institute is a sleazy propaganda organization whose purpose is to mislead |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-30-11 05:08 AM Response to Original message |
3. Total nuclear industry spending was $645 million over 10 years as of 2/2010. |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-30-11 11:28 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. There's a chart that goes with that story |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-30-11 11:59 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Thank you very much. |
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SpoonFed (801 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-30-11 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
5. Is this one of those times? |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-01-11 06:43 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. Yes, your numbers are off by an order of magnitude |
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SpoonFed (801 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-01-11 09:16 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Dude, your country is falling apart... |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-01-11 11:16 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. How do you propose to stop a legal industry from doing legal lobbying? |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-01-11 11:17 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Certainly hand-wringing on DU isn't going to change much... |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-01-11 11:52 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. You start with making the cash exchanges public. |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-02-11 12:06 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. I thought the problem we were talking about was the lobbying itself. |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-02-11 12:45 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. You are once again trying to protect the nuclear industry. |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-02-11 01:14 AM Response to Reply #23 |
26. You're the policy wonk, not me. |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-01-11 09:44 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Nuclear Energy's Comeback Is Fueled By Lobbying Dollars, Not By Safer or Better Technology" |
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txlibdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-01-11 08:10 AM Response to Original message |
8. Those terrible nuclear industry jerks: spent less than 3% of total lobbying |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-01-11 03:26 PM Original message |
triple replication deletion |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-01-11 03:26 PM Original message |
triple replication deletion |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-01-11 03:26 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Thank you. |
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txlibdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-01-11 04:53 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Honesty, truth, fair comparisons -- let's argue with those as our guiding principles |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-01-11 06:50 PM Response to Original message |
12. So what? |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-01-11 09:46 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. You miss the point. |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-01-11 11:12 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. So how do you propose to stop them from lobbying? |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-01-11 11:50 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Is transparency too much to ask? |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-01-11 11:55 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Transparency is fine. All information should be free. |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-02-11 12:46 AM Response to Reply #21 |
24. I care about the nuclear industry buying energy policy right now, |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-02-11 01:10 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. OK, so what do you propose to do about it? |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-02-11 12:01 PM Response to Original message |
27. This is what their money buys... |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-02-11 12:24 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. So how do we stop them from spending money this way? |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-02-11 12:31 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. You should rephrase that. |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-02-11 12:54 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. It's our money? I was sure lobbying was funded by the industry itself. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-02-11 01:00 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Deleted message |
GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-02-11 05:12 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. "Surreptitiously"? |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-02-11 07:20 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Yes, surreptitiously. |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-02-11 08:17 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. Not quite. |
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kristopher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-02-11 08:47 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Active, yes; overt, no. |
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