Fiorina, Carly

<h3 class="special-section"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></h3><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 920</font></div><div><div class="header-list-style" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h2 class="entry-title grid-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; letter-spacing: 1px;">f<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/former-trump-2016-republican-rival-carly-fiorina-to-back-biden/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0px;">ormer Trump 2016 Republican rival Carly Fiorina to back Biden</a></h2><div class="grid-post-box-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 12px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px;"><span class="author-italic author vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-size: inherit;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-size: inherit;">September 20, 2020</span></div></div><div class="item-content entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;">WASHINGTON – Carly Fiorina, a formal rival of Donald Trump for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, plans to cast her vote for Democrat Joe Biden in November.”I’ve been very clear…</p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><h4 class="yiv1406286325null" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1447950990138_180926" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Opaque payment streams for two top consultants to Fiorina groups</font></h4><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br style="color: rgb(96, 96, 96); line-height: 22.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="color: rgb(96, 96, 96); line-height: 22.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For two consultants working to help put Carly Fiorina in the White House, the legal firewall between campaign and super PAC must look more like a mirror. As one moves, so does the other; as one takes thousands of dollars in salaries and sets up a skeletal business entity to receive even more, the other does, too. The two, Stephen DeMaura and Frank Sadler, are both Republican consultants who have ...</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://opensecrets.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa7cf182bf7041258bb250f9d&id=e564e9d230&e=44dfb36771" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(62, 114, 181); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 22.5px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">read more</a><span style="color: rgb(96, 96, 96); line-height: 22.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p style="line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Three Republican presidential candidates have responded to California Gov. Jerry Brown's challenge to offer their stance on climate change.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In response, Sen. Ted Cruz from Texas said that the earth's climate has been changing forever; former executive of Hewlett-Packard Co. Carly Fiorina said it "may well be true" that climate change has worsened California's drought; and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said we need to talk about new water management policies.</font></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-syndicated-from field-type-link-field field-label-hidden" style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article31237517.html" style="color: rgb(0, 100, 0); text-decoration: none; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Read original story</font></a></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">she's baaaack 5/15</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">F <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">also </span><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/04/06/carly-fiorina-on-the-calif-crisis-thats-a-classic-case-of-liberals-being-willing-to-sacrifice-other-peoples-lives-and-livelihoods/" target="blank" style="line-height: 25.2px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">blamed the drought in California</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">on “liberal environmentalists,” saying they “prevented the building of a single new reservoir or a single new water conveyance system over decades during a period in which California’s population has doubled.” She called it a “classic case of liberals being willing to sacrifice other people’s lives and livelihoods at the altar of their ideology.” She didn’t explain where the water for the reservoirs or conveyance systems was going to come from.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/09/inhofe-fiorina-hoax/  fang</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Today on Capitol Hill, Americans for Prosperity, the corporate front group founded and funded by <a href="http://pr.thinkprogress.org/2009/12/pr20091208" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">David Koch</a> of the oil conglomerate Koch Industries, hosted an event to urge the passage of Sen. <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/08/murkowski-flashback-redtape/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Lisa Murkowski’s</a> (R-AK) resolution to <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/01/21/lincoln-murky-democrat/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">gut</a> the Clean Air Act’s power to regulate carbon emissions. Several Republican Senators came to the AFP event to encourage support for the resolution, which was <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/08/murkowski-flashback-redtape/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">drafted</a> by lobbyists from the coal and oil industry.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After the event, ThinkProgress spoke to one of the speakers, <b>Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), about his support for Carly Fiorina (R-CA), the U.S. Senate candidate to emerge from the primary last night. Inhofe gave Fiorina an <a href="http://climateprogress.org/2009/11/23/inhofe-endorsement-carly-fiorina-challenges-climate-science-unlike-hewlett-packard-hp/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">early endorsement</a>, and his <a href="http://www.strategicperceptioninc.com/fred.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">nephew</a>, Fred Davis, created the<a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1960405,00.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">infamous</a> “demon sheep” ads for Fiorina’s campaign.</b></font></p><span id="trigger-slidedown" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22.44px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 22.44px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Inhofe, who has been described as Washington’s “<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/27/AR2009102702845.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">the last flat-earther</a>” for his strident denial of climate change, said Fiorina “is supporting what I am supporting.” He elaborated that Fiorina both supports eviscerating the EPA’s ability to enforce the Clean Air Act, and that she is supportive of his beliefs “in terms of the whole global warming hoax.” He then added that he is “very proud of her”:</font></font></font></font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 3em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 22.44px; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline;">TP: I was wondering if Carly actually supports this effort to change the regulatory power of the Clean Air Act that you’re talking about today?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline;">INHOFE: No, Carly’s already taken a stand on this.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline;">TP: Oh, so she’s supporting this?</p><span id="trigger-slidedown" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline;">INHOFE: <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">She is supporting what I am supporting. In fact Carly made a statement yesterday that was the strongest statement I’ve heard yet in terms of the whole global warming hoax. So I was very proud of her.</strong></p></span></blockquote></span></span></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Not long ago, <font color="#ff0000">Fiorina believed in climate change and supported efforts to deal with carbon pollution</font>.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> On Fox News last year, Fiorina praised Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) for crafting bipartisan clean energy legislation to achieve “energy independence” and “</span><a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/86290/fiorina-and-climate-change-what-a-difference-eight-months-make" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">addressing climate change</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> as equally important goals.” Fiorina also campaigned for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in 2008 because he promised to “create a </span><a href="http://climateprogress.org/2010/03/16/flashback-carly-fiorina-said-cap-and-trade-will-both-create-jobs-and-lower-the-cost-of-energy/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">cap-and-trade system</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> that will encourage the development of alternative energy sources.”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fiorina has quickly dismissed her once-held climate change beliefs to satisfy the far right, science-denying wing of the conservative movement. She initially flipped, telling reporters that people need the “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carly_Fiorina" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">courage</a>” to question climate change science. Then, <b>she ran an ad mocking Sen. Barbara Boxer’s (D-CA) belief in climate change</b>, with the narrator claiming that the world’s catastrophic changes in temperature are simply due to the “<a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/06/carly-fiorina-calls-climate-change-the-weather/1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">weather</a>.” But now with Inhofe claiming Fiorina agrees fully with his belief that climate change is a “<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2008/12/23/34078/inhofe-650/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">hoax</a>” and that Congress must radically weaken the Clean Air Act, the metamorphosis of Fiorina into full right-wing sycophant is complete.</font></p><div class="post-update" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 1px 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); line-height: 22.44px; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h5 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 2px 8px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 6px; text-transform: uppercase; width: auto; float: left; background: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">UPDATE</font></h5><p class="timestamp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0px; border: 0px; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 11.5192px; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: uppercase; float: left; clear: left; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5em; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last night, Inhofe posted an interview in which he said the problem with the response to BP’s oil spill is “<a href="http://src.senate.gov/public/_files/radio/inhofeKFAQ060910.mp3" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">all these hearings we’re having</a>.” Does Fiorina support that view, as well?</font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><h3 class="special-section"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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<h4 id="page-title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Global warming doubter, coal industry donate to Fiorina campaign</font></h4>

<div class="meta"><span class="submitted"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">July 26, 2010 | <a href="http://www.californiawatch.org/user/lance-williams" title="View user profile.">Lance Williams</a></font></span></div>

<p style=" width: 304px;" class="image-insert"><span class="image-insert-description"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of Carly Fiorina's ads attacks Barbara Boxer for being "worried about the weather."</font></span>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina has obtained about $63,000 in donations this year from Appalachian coal-mining interests, much of the money from an outspoken Ohio mine owner who dismisses global warming as “hysterical global goofiness.”</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a cluster of transactions – most of them dated Feb. 4 – 64 donors associated with mining in Ohio, West Virginia and other coal-producing states made contributions to Fiorina, who is challenging incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Of that, nearly $25,000 came from employees and a political committee of Cleveland-based <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ohiovalleycoal.com/">Murray Energy Corp.</a>, the nation’s largest privately-owned coal producer. Other donations in the bundle came from Midwestern companies that sell mining equipment and supplies. Fiorina attended a fundraiser with coal-mining interests in Ohio earlier this year.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robert Murray, Murray Energy’s CEO, has clashed repeatedly with Ohio environmentalists, facing criticism for building mining tunnels beneath an old-growth forest and for pushing plans to expand a huge storage lake for water polluted with mining runoff, according to interviews and press reports.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Congress this year debated climate change legislation, Murray emerged as an aggressive critic of proposals to restrict the burning of coal, styling those efforts as a national “economic suicide note.”</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Murray’s press spokesman declined to comment. But Andrea Saul, spokeswoman for Fiorina, responded:</font></p>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Carly thinks we need to have the courage to examine the science of climate change, but knows that us acting alone will only put our companies at a severe competitive disadvantage in the global marketplace with no impact on the issue. First and foremost, Carly believes we need to expand and diversify our nation's energy portfolio – solar, wind, coal, natural gas – to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of oil.</font></p>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Murray has no known connection to Fiorina, the former Hewlett Packard CEO. But Murray has publicly butted heads with Boxer, who has boosted cap-and-trade legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In testimony at a 2007 Senate hearing that Boxer attended, Murray dismissed global warming as “global goofiness” and accused congressional Democrats of “attempting to export the draconian so-called ‘global warming’ measures already enacted in California … to the rest of America.”</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Boxer then questioned Murray about mining safety, asserting his company had paid the “biggest fines” of any mine operator in Ohio.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“You are wrong!” Murray retorted, according to a transcript, also saying, “You don’t have the foggiest idea what a person does to pack a lunch and go to work or wear a hard hat.”</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since then, Murray has singled out Boxer for criticism on global warming issues. Last year, when he laid off 91 miners at a mine in eastern Ohio, Murray sought to blame President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats, including Boxer, saying in a press release that the “insanity” of proposed cap-and-trade legislation to fight global warming was reducing the demand for coal.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Murray is “very outspoken in his opposition to climate change legislation,” said Nachy Kanfer, a Sierra Club coal expert based in Columbus, Ohio. “He’s so outspoken, he almost revels in it.”</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With political donations, Kanfer said Murray was “targeting the champions of revitalizing our economy with clean energy – the Bob Murrays of the world rely on dirty energy to survive.”</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As late as 2008, when she spoke at the Republican National Convention that nominated John McCain, Fiorina advocated cap-and-trade measures for environmental protection.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“John McCain will create a cap-and-trade system that will encourage the development of alternative energy sources,” she said, as <a target="_blank" href="http://www.grist.org/article/2010-03-15-carly-fiorina-said-cap-and-trade-will-both-create-jobs-and-lower/">grist.org</a> has noted.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But since she began running for the Senate, Fiorina has backed away from the topic. In a TV interview during the GOP primary, Fiorina said “I’m not sure,” when asked whether climate change was occurring. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3opch_q4M0&feature=player_embedded">And in a TV commercial</a>, she mocked Boxer for asserting that climate change could pose national security issues for the U.S.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Terrorism kills, and Barbara Boxer is worried about the weather,” Fiorina said.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Murray, the mine owner, uses tough language about  proposals to check climate change.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In testimony before the Senate environment and public works committee last year, Murray contended that replacing coal-fired power plants would “kill American people” and cause perhaps 150,000 “premature deaths annually.” That’s because alternative energy sources are much more expensive, he said.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a 2009 essay for the West Virginia Gazette newspaper, Murray derided cap-and-trade legislation then pending before Congress as an “economic suicide note,” saying the measure would “destroy the nation’s coal industry,” cost taxpayers “over $2 trillion in just over eight years” and transfer wealth from the Midwest “to the West Coast and New England.”</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Murray won national attention in 2007 when a cave-in at a Utah mine co-owned by one of his companies killed six miners. In television interviews, Murray <a target="_blank" href="http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/833361">defended his company’s safety </a>record and contended the mine collapse was caused by an earthquake.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Ohio, he battled in court for years for the right to mine beneath an Ohio forest containing some of the only old-growth hardwood trees left in the state. In the end, a federal court rejected an environmentalists’ lawsuit and allowed tunneling to commence near the forest, called Dysart Woods.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ohio University owned the tract, but not the mineral rights. During the controversy, Murray was arrested on charges of assaulting environmentalists outside a hearing room, the Associated Press reported. Murray said the accusation was false and politically motivated, and he was eventually acquitted, the AP said.</font></p>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fiorina's billionaire backers</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Billionaire industrialists David and Charles Koch appear to be taking a particular interest in California politics this year.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">September 25, 2010|Tim Rutten</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">California, birthplace of the modern environmental movement, remains one of the greenest of blue states, even while it struggles to cope with levels of unemployment unseen since the Depression.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That makes the budding relationship between Republican senatorial candidate Carly Fiorina and billionaire industrialists David and Charles Koch all the odder. The Kochs own and run America's second-largest privately held company, Koch Industries — an amalgam of oil, gas, pipeline, chemical, fertilizer and wood products companies, including Georgia-Pacific. Lump them together, and the Koch brothers have the country's third-largest fortune — $35 billion — after Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to a New Yorker profile, the Koch brothers' father was one of the original members of the John Birch Society, and his sons embraced his conservative politics, ultimately drifting into the anarchist-inflected wing of the libertarian movement. They're currently major funders of the "tea party" and of conservative Republican candidates across the country.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Though one brother lives in Wichita, Kan., and the other in Manhattan, they seem to be taking a particular interest in California politics this year. They helped mount the campaign for Proposition 23, the ballot measure that essentially would gut AB 32, the state law mandating lower carbon emissions as a step toward addressing global warming. A Koch Industries PAC has also donated $5,000 to Fiorina, and the company was among the sponsors of a Washington fundraiser for her Thursday night.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After a good deal of back and forth, Fiorina — who also supports offshore oil drilling, another Koch favorite — recently endorsed Proposition 23, just as the Koch brothers' company pumped $1 million into its campaign. This month, Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Morain noted that, while the brothers' oil companies stand to profit mightily from Proposition 23's passage, they also have an interest in seeing that other states don't emulate California's attempt to reduce carbon emissions. Two years ago, this state adopted model air-quality regulations curbing cancer-causing emissions of formaldehyde in the forest products industry. Federal interest in adopting similar curbs is causing Georgia-Pacific no end of grief.</font></p>