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To: KLP who wrote (338876)	12/23/2009 7:31:11 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

Does anyone in San Fran know what their $6.6 BILLION has bought?? One of the things its bought - ------ San Francisco City Government Outspends Exxon on Climate Advocacy February 20, 2008, 11:52 am A bunch of media outlets credulously ran a Greenpeace press release as a news story last year, hammering on Exxon for donating a cumulative $2 million dollars to "skeptical" climate researchers. Never mind that no one could explain what was so ominous about an American company exercising its free speech rights. I and other pointed out that this $2 million was a trivial amount of spending compared to the billions that had been routed to global warming activists. This week, we get a great example. While over a period of a decade, the great Satan ExxonMobil spent $2 million on climate issues, it turns out one city government, in San Francisco, spends this much each year on global warming activism: In his quest to make San Francisco the greenest city in the nation, Mayor Gavin Newsom recently created a $160,000-a-year job for a senior aide and gave him the ambitious-sounding title of director of climate protection initiatives. … But officials in the Newsom administration say that even 25 people working on climate issues is not enough and that having a director in the mayor’s inner circle is necessary to coordinate all the city’s climate initiatives."... coyoteblog.com