Activists Brag About Getting California AG and Legislators into RICO Climate Campaign
Tuesday June 28, 2016
If there was ever any doubt that the climate RICO campaign is about politics rather than the exercise of the law, look no further than the Democratic National Committee’s incorporation of investigations into oil and gas companies’ work on climate science into is official platform.
Of course, it will come as no surprise that the same activists who spearheaded that effort are the ones working hand in glove with the Attorneys General launching investigations into ExxonMobil. Leading the charge is Bill McKibben, co-founder of the Rockefeller-funded 350.org, who presidential candidate Bernie Sanders actually handpicked to sit on the DNC platform committee to make these decisions. McKibben has written numerous op-eds in favor of investigating ExxonMobil and he also attended that closed-door meeting at the Rockefeller Family Fund in January, which was held so activists could brainstorm how to establish “in the public’s mind that Exxon is a corrupt institution.”
RL Miller of Climate Hawks Vote – who was also pushing for climate investigations into oil and gas companies to be included on the DNC platform – has bragged that she was the reason California Attorney General Kamala Harris joined in the climate RICO effort. From her blog post:
“Climate Hawks Vote has been leading the call to investigate and prosecute Exxon, having written the first petition to the Department of Justice and continuing petitions to state attorney generals including Kamala Harris (California), Brian Frosh (Maryland), Tom Miller (Iowa), and more. (And we endorsed Kamala Harris for US Senate after she responded to a Los Angeles County Democratic Party ...