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<div>=</div><div>6/16</div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Let’s take a quick stroll through the resume of Jim Murphy, hired Monday by Donald Trump’s campaign as national political director, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/06/us/politics/trump-hires.html?_r=0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;">according to the New York Times</a>:<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px 1.1rem; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; list-style-position: outside; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Former adviser to Bob Dole and Mitt Romney’s presidential bids.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Frequent donor to GOP political campaigns and PACs.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Managing partner and then president of the DCI Group from 2002 to 2012, at a time when the Washington, D.C., lobbyists represented ExxonMobil and assisted in attempts to sow doubt about the scientific consensus on climate change … Oh boy, here we go.</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">The Daily Beast <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/07/from-big-oil-to-big-hair-meet-donald-trump-s-controversial-new-man.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">points out</a> <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/07/from-big-oil-to-big-hair-meet-donald-trump-s-controversial-new-man.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">that in addition to representing repressive military regimes and using fake “volunteers” to push for privatization of social security</a>, DCI has gone to bat for both Big Tobacco and Big Oil. The firm has represented Exxon since 2005 according to the <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmsum.php?id=D000021952" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">most recent data</a> available from the Center for Responsive Politics. That collaboration, according to <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/320999-heartland-exxon-clean-air-act-mtg-2006.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">documents</a>, involved working with the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heartland_Institute#Exxon_funding" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Exxon-funded</a> Heartland Institute and conservative think tanks to counter greenhouse gas regulations, promoting a climate denial website called called <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tech_Central_Station" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Tech Central Station</a>, and using Exxon money to <a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/nation/2006/08/03/Where-did-that-video-spoofing-Gore-s-film-come-from/stories/200608030477" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">produce</a> a parody of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. IMG penguin<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2612021&page=1" style="font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;">sent Exxon a letter</a> in 2006 demanding it “end any further financial assistance” to groups “whose public advocacy has contributed to the small but unfortunately effective climate change denial myth.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Droid Serif', Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">DCI has also had dealings with the coal industry; from 2013 to 2014, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity paid some $5 million to the firm for its lobbying services. And earlier this year, both DCI and the Competitive Enterprise Institute were <a href="http://www.climateinvestigations.org/dci_group_subpoena_exxon_climate_fraud" style="font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(190, 76, 0); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;">served subpoenas</a> from the U.S. Virgin Islands U.S. attorneys’ offices as part of an investigation into companies — particularly Exxon — and organizations accused of funding of climate change denial. That’s quite a resume.<div></div></div>