Thursday, September 09, 2010

Steve Stivers --- backed by anti-environmentalists

*  Students at Ohio State will be interested in knowing that Republican Steve Stivers, a former bank lobbyist, is the anti-environment, anti-stem cell research, pro-bank, pro-Wall Street candidate, who wants to repeal several Amendments to the Constitution. That will make him very unpopular on campus!

***  Koch Industries, the company owned by the the anti-environment Koch Brothers, has  contributed $6000 to the campaign of Republican candidate, Steve Stivers, a former bank lobbyist (see Open Secrets).  Now the Koch Brothers are astroturfing with a group called RallyforJobs, which stages anti-environment, anti-green jobs, and pro-oil fake rallies.  According to Rachel Maddow, a recent "rally" was held in Canton with oil company employees who were bused in for the event.  The Akron Beacon Journal ran a story on the fake rally, and ThinkProgress exposed the true identity of some of the speakers.  Besides being anti-environment, they claim that global warming is a hoax. ( Now you see why Stivers has received the financial backing from the Koch Brothers.)