{"id":78467,"date":"2021-06-22T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78467"},"modified":"2021-06-21T09:08:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T14:08:14","slug":"minnesota-government-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78467","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota: Government For Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I talked about this on the show on Saturday. Climatelitigationwatch.com has evidence that progressive plutocrats with deep pockets – the Rockefeller Foundation, Michael Bloomberg – are not only pouring money into Minnesota elections (as is their First Amendment right), but apparently paying for two attorneys in Keith Ellison’s Attorney General’s office to run the office’s “climate” litigation<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New documents obtained under state open records laws
reveal important details about the expanding, and arguably
improper, deployment of law schools by or on behalf of donors
in the climate litigation industry. That latter, national effort,
which we now know is being coordinated by donors out of
New York, enlists local activist groups, faculty, and attorneys
general to bring lawsuits in state courts against traditional
\u201cfossil fuel\u201d energy companies, as well as others involved in
energy production and transport. As described by the plaintiffs\u2019
lawyers and advisors, these suits have been brought to impact
public policy and to find new sources of revenue for activists
and state budgets.
Numerous schools including public universities now have
donor-funded faculty advising the tort firms and AGs. They enlist
students to assist, and they serve in the media to support the
litigation campaign, often without disclosing relationships with
the litigants or their funders. Law schools are described as a
\u201csecret weapon\u201d1
in the litigation campaign targeting companies.
The roster of schools assisting the donor-driven campaign
has expanded beyond elite universities, to public institutions
in jurisdictions where the national coordinator has arranged
for an allied state attorney general to target industry. Newly
obtained documents show a much broader group of faculty
quietly assisting this litigation industry.2
They also show faculty
being quietly advised and guided by activist attorneys engaged
by financiers of this campaign. This extends even to allowing
the activist attorneys \u2014 described as \u201cthe lawyers advising the
Rockefeller family fund [sic]\u201d \u2014 to ghost co-author supposedly
academic pieces published on university letterhead, apparently
in violation of rules governing these public institutions<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

You’d think there’d be a law against people buying executive branch officials. And you’d probably be right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what are you going to do – go to the Attorney General’s office?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minnesota’s level of corruption is creeping toward Chicago levels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Government is run by those who show up” – apparently with a checkbook. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I talked about this on the show on Saturday. Climatelitigationwatch.com has evidence that progressive plutocrats with deep pockets – the Rockefeller Foundation, Michael Bloomberg – are not only pouring money into Minnesota elections (as is their First Amendment right), but apparently paying for two attorneys in Keith Ellison’s Attorney General’s office to run the office’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2,320,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-minnesota-politics","category-mndfl","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78468,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78467\/revisions\/78468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}