The White House and environmental groups are turning up the heat on the Chamber of Commerce, and some of its member companies are feeling the burn.
At a National Press Club event last week, seven different reporters tried to ask the chairwoman of Royal Dutch Shell how her oil company could push for climate legislation while maintaining its membership in the Chamber.
Toyota has been inundated with calls and e-mails from Prius owners, pushed by MoveOn.org to demand an explanation of how the automaker’s membership in the Chamber squares with the green vibe it wraps around its hybrid cars.
And New York-based Mohawk Fine Papers — “the largest premium paper manufacturer in North America” — pulled out of the Chamber this week. It was the seventh company to resign over the business lobby’s opposition to climate change legislation.
“For us to advocate for a sensible climate change policy, for us to champion that cause, is completely inconsistent with paying dues to an organization that takes a position on the issue like the Chamber,” says George Milner, Mohawk’s vice president for environmental affairs.
The Chamber is pushing back, sending top officials out to make its case on TV and in print interviews and blaming Democrats and liberal interest groups for trying to coerce it into changing its position. - Politico Story
My question is, why is everyone bowing in to the almighty Obama. If you disagree with the man and his politics then tell him to go fly a kite. Don't let him and his mafia bully you into falling in line with him.
If you genuinely agree with him then so be it. That is OK too. I am just flat out flabbergasted that no one his calling him and his team on their bully tactics. This is the leadership that we want our youth looking up too. If you don't get your way you blame it on someone else and then bully everyone until you do?
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