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by Guy Page
As noted by Behind the Lines columnist Rob Roper (“Roper: More climate propaganda and left-wing bias from VT Digger“) and FYIVT researcher Dave Soulia (“Dark Money in Vermont: It’s Not Coming From AFP“) there has been widespread protest from many politicians and non-profit organizations about the decision by Americans for Prosperity to support efforts to reduce taxation and over-regulation in Vermont.
Until AFP came along, the Ethan Allen Institute was almost the only broadbased, organized effort to support Vermont taxpayers and energy consumers concerned that progressive policies are costing too much money. This 2013 video traces the impact of out-of-state money and policy initiatives in major legislation raising the cost of living, education, and energy. It shows how Vermont has been an easy punch for well-heeled interest groups with national agendas.
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Thank you
That is an excellent review of the role of outside money influencing Vermont policies. Thank you.
Some updates from enviro group 990s, which are available for free on guidestar:
CLF Conservation Law Foundation, Inc. 2022
Boston, MA|EIN: 04-6149986
Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) protects New England’s environment for the benefit of all people. We use the law, science, and the market to create solutions … ripple effects of climate change….
GROSS RECEIPTS
$17,477,824
ASSETS
$36,586,667
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Renewable Energy Vermont 2024
Gross receipts $ 491,414
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VPIRG 2023 — two different non-profits
Education Fund Gross receipts $ 1,305,212
The other VPIRG Gross receipts $ 1,510,476
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Energy Action Network 2023
Gross receipts $ 334,745
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Vermont Natural Resources Council 2022
Gross receipts $ 2,803,033
Endowment Funds: $4,039,897
Land, Buildings & Equipment: $2,181,710
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For comparison, my organization, Vermonters for a Clean Environment (vce.org), has an annual operating budget of averaging $130,000. You’re welcome to join us and support our work.
Excellent! This should be required in all High School Civics classes(if they still have them)! Yup, poor old Vt, like living in a Petrie Dish; either surrounded by a culture of bacteria or virus!
Thank you Ethan Allen Institute for this amazing eye-opening video and thank you Guy Page for resurfacing this – perfect timing and perfect message to help Vermont get back on track- very much appreciated.
Jeff Wennberg said; “We do need reform. But we must find a better solution… we can be the petri dish.”
Oh, really. The only concepts never mentioned in this old documentary are those of Free Enterprise. It seems to me that both sides of aisle are interested in one thing. Consolidating power. Be it Single Payer, the Clean Heat Standard, the public education monopoly, you name it; when are our politicians going to figure out that they’re not necessary to our individual success, other than to provide a judicial system that allows each of us to arbitrate our own lives under our common rule of law?
More importantly, when are we, the voters, going to figure this out?
Again, there’s nothing new here. We’ve seen and talked about Vermont’s circumstance for decades. And, still, no one is openly advocating for the one system that has proven best time and time again.
“The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.”
Posturing and projecting the left takes in dark money from dark places is performance art, conjecture, and deflection. If there were to be any fairness, honesty, or God forbid, ethics – admit billionaires on both sides of the fence buy seats and policies by funding the [s]elections. If anything, it appears the RNC and the GOP billionaires club doesn’t care about Vermont, (considered a lost cause I’m sure) and funnel their bank and attention elsewhere – our neighbor New Hamsphire cleans up nicely. All in all, if it isn’t Soros and Mike Bloomberg on the left, it’s Timothy Mellon and Sheldon Adelson on the right – C’mon man! Follow the money and see who wins, time and bloody time again. If the VTGOP can’t influence the big money to invest in our [s]elections, they can only ride the rickety fence, throw mud at the left, then proceed to play footsie with them. Since Snelling passed at the helm, they lost the only one who had enough business sense and influence to hold up the sinking ship from fullly capitulating and capsizing to the leftwits. Since he passed, the State has decended into a barely managed canatonic sh*#show.
Obviously, the well-heeled, well funded “think” tanks don’t think about the People, they think about which stooge will parrott their script of lies most effectively to get the most bang for their big bucks. Agenda 2030 – they are all in on it and they are all making bank off it regardless of their fake, false, phony narratives.
I’ve been aware for years of the importing of radical left people into Vermont in orderto sway local elections. They don’t even necessarily live here but are registered here. Sometimes registered outside of Vermont as well as in Vermont.