Posts Tagged ‘astroturf’

Aug
07

AstroturfNow that things are starting to slow down a bit, I feel I can finally address the laughable charge and confront it head on. For those of you who do not know the back story, you can read Mary Katherine Ham’s piece in the Washington Examiner to catch up on the #dontgo movement story.

While the Washington Examiner story explains the #dontgo Movement from the GOP side of the story, I would like to take you into the much larger, much more privately organized “outside the beltway” part of the movement.

Indeed, far left groups and blogs are frothing at the mouths to proclaim this grassroots movement an “astroturf” campaign with strings being pulled by Republicans and Big Oil Companies. Continue Reading