Ellen Tauscher

<div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Ellen O'Kane Tauscher</b>&nbsp;(November 15, 1951 – April 29, 2019<sup id="cite_ref-TB_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-TB-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">[1]</a></sup>) was an American businesswoman, diplomat, and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Democratic Party</a>&nbsp;politician who was the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">U.S. representative</a>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_10th_congressional_district" title="California's 10th congressional district" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">California's 10th congressional district</a>&nbsp;from 1997 to 2009. From 2009 to 2012, she served as the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Secretary_of_State_for_Arms_Control_and_International_Security_Affairs" title="Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs</a>. She then served as Special Envoy for Strategic Stability and Missile Defense at the State Department.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">While in Congress, Tauscher was a leading centrist Democrat, and the chair of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Democrat_Coalition" title="New Democrat Coalition" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">New Democrat Coalition</a>, a caucus of moderate Democrats in the House of Representatives. She also served as vice-chairwoman of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council" title="Democratic Leadership Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Democratic Leadership Council</a>&nbsp;from 2001 to 2005.</p><div>...</div><div><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.375; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Political_views">Political views</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-family: sans-serif; user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 0; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ellen_Tauscher&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Political views" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-wrap: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A leading&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Way(centrism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Third Way (centrism)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">centrist</a>&nbsp;Democrat, Tauscher was the chairwoman of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Democrat_Coalition" title="New Democrat Coalition" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">New Democrat Coalition</a>, a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_caucus" title="Congressional caucus" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">caucus</a>&nbsp;of moderate Democrats in the House. She also served as vice-chairwoman of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council" title="Democratic Leadership Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Democratic Leadership Council</a>&nbsp;from 2001 to 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-content.time.com_9-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-content.time.com-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">[9]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tauscher received an 11% lifetime rating from the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Conservative_Union" title="American Conservative Union" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">American Conservative Union</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">[22]</a></sup>&nbsp;and a 95% rating for her 2008 voting record from&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Democratic_Action" title="Americans for Democratic Action" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Americans for Democratic Action</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">[23]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">While in Congress, she supported&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care" title="" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">universal health care</a>&nbsp;and, in particular, covering&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance_in_the_United_States" title="Health insurance in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">uninsured</a>&nbsp;children through the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Children%27s_Health_Insurance_Program" class="mw-redirect" title="State Children's Health Insurance Program" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">State Children's Health Insurance Program</a>&nbsp;(SCHIP).<sup id="cite_ref-tauscher_24-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-tauscher-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">[24]</a></sup>&nbsp;She also supported scaling back the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_tax_in_the_United_States" title="Estate tax in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">estate tax</a>, tightening&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_in_the_United_States" title="Bankruptcy in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">bankruptcy</a>&nbsp;rules, and expanding&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_trade" title="Free trade" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">free trade</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-washingtonpost.com_8-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-washingtonpost.com-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">[8]</a></sup></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Abortion">Abortion</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 0; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ellen_Tauscher&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Abortion" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-wrap: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tauscher was strongly&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-choice" class="mw-redirect" title="Pro-choice" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">pro-choice</a>. She received a 100% positive rating from&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NARAL_Pro-Choice_America" title="NARAL Pro-Choice America" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">NARAL</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-issues_25-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-issues-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">[25]</a></sup>&nbsp;She voted against bans on&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late-term_abortion" class="mw-redirect" title="Late-term abortion" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">late-term</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intact_dilation_and_extraction" title="Intact dilation and extraction" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">partial-birth abortions</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; font-size: 11.2px; text-wrap: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She also supported federal funding of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell_controversy" title="Stem cell controversy" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">stem cell research</a>, voting in favor of both&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_Cell_Research_Enhancement_Act" title="Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Stem Cell Research Enhancement Acts</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; font-size: 11.2px; text-wrap: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Gun_rights">Gun rights</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 0; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ellen_Tauscher&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Gun rights" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-wrap: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tauscher was in favor of more extensive gun control. She expressed her support for the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Second Amendment to the United States Constitution" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Second Amendment</a>, but has also said that "we should keep guns out of the hands of criminals and those with history of violence." She called for "common sense gun safety legislation that strikes a balance between Second Amendment protections and protections for the public."<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; font-size: 11.2px; text-wrap: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">While in Congress, she supported arming commercial&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviator" class="mw-redirect" title="Aviator" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">pilots</a>, requiring&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_check" title="Background check" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">background checks</a>&nbsp;of legal gun owners, and banning&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_night_special" title="Saturday night special" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Saturday night specials</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">[26]</a></sup>&nbsp;She received an F rating from the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association" title="National Rifle Association" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">National Rifle Association</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">[27]</a></sup></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Iraq_war">Iraq war</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 0; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ellen_Tauscher&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Iraq war" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-wrap: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In October 2002, Tauscher voted in favor of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Resolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraq Resolution" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Iraq Resolution</a>, approving the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="2003 invasion of Iraq" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">use of military force in</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Iraq</a>. However, she later became a critic of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Iraq War</a>, while continuing to vote for funding for the War (see HR 1585<sup id="cite_ref-HR_1585_Iraq_War_Funding_28-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-HR_1585_Iraq_War_Funding-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">[28]</a></sup>). In December 2005, Tauscher led a group of twenty-two other House Democrats in sending a letter to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">President</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">George W. Bush</a>&nbsp;urging him to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_of_U.S.troops_from_Iraq(2007%E2%80%932011)" class="mw-redirect" title="Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq (2007–2011)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">withdraw U.S. troops</a>, expressing the hope that the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Iraq" title="Politics of Iraq" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Iraqi government</a>&nbsp;takes increased responsibility" for its political and security needs.<sup id="cite_ref-iraq_29-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-iraq-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">[29]</a></sup>&nbsp;She later voted to redeploy troops out of Iraq within 90 days<sup id="cite_ref-issues_25-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-issues-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">[25]</a></sup>&nbsp;and even to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_to_impeach_George_W.Bush" class="mw-redirect" title="Movement to impeach George W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">impeach President Bush</a>&nbsp;over the war.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">[30]</a></sup></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="LGBT_issues">LGBT issues</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 0; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ellen_Tauscher&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: LGBT issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-wrap: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tauscher was an early proponent of same-sex marriage, publicly stating in 2004 in response to President George W. Bush's call for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, "It is clear to me that this is the civil rights issue of the 21st century, and it is unambiguous in my mind that the government cannot discriminate by gender the rights conferred by the state in marriage."<sup id="cite_ref-marriage_31-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-marriage-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">[31]</a></sup>&nbsp;In 2006, she voted against the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Marriage_Amendment" title="Federal Marriage Amendment" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Federal Marriage Amendment</a>, which would have&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Constitution" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">constitutionally</a>&nbsp;defined marriage as being between a man and woman.<sup id="cite_ref-issues_25-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-issues-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">[25]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On March 3, 2009, Tauscher introduced the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Readiness_Enhancement_Act" title="Military Readiness Enhancement Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Military Readiness Enhancement Act</a>&nbsp;of 2009 to the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">House of Representatives</a>, which would have repealed Don't Ask, Don't Tell. The bill eventually passed in a slightly different form in 2010 after Tauscher had left the House, repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; font-size: 11.2px; text-wrap: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She was opposed to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America_membership_controversies" title="Boy Scouts of America membership controversies" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">banning gays from the</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America" title="Boy Scouts of America" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Boy Scouts</a>. She had a 100% rating from the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Campaign" title="Human Rights Campaign" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Human Rights Campaign</a>, the largest&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_United_States" title="LGBT rights in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">gay rights</a>&nbsp;advocacy group in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">United States</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-issues_25-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-issues-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">[25]</a></sup></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.375; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Career_after_politics">Career after politics</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-family: sans-serif; user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 0; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ellen_Tauscher&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Career after politics" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-wrap: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After leaving the State Department, Tauscher assumed a number of publicly held corporate and non-profit board positions, including serving on the boards of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_International" title="Edison International" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Edison International</a>/<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_California_Edison" title="Southern California Edison" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Southern California Edison</a>&nbsp;(EIX) in Rosemead, California, and eHealth (EHTH) in Mountain View, California. She served on the Board of Advisors of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX" title="SpaceX" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">SpaceX</a>&nbsp;and the Board of Directors o<b>f&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Systems" title="BAE Systems" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">BAE Systems</a></b>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invacare" title="Invacare" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Invacare</a>&nbsp;Corporation, and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaWorld_Entertainment" class="mw-redirect" title="SeaWorld Entertainment" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">SeaWorld Entertainment</a>. She was a member of the Board of Governors of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Club_of_California" title="Commonwealth Club of California" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The Commonwealth Club of California</a>. She served as vice chair of the&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/programs/brent-scowcroft-center" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?30a3a") right center / 0.857em no-repeat; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-right: 1em;">Atlantic Council's Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security</a>&nbsp;and was a member of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California_Board_of_Regents" class="mw-redirect" title="University of California Board of Regents" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">University of California Board of Regents</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She also served as chairman of the Board of Governors for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Alamos_National_Security" title="Los Alamos National Security" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Los Alamos National Security</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Livermore_National_Laboratory" title="Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Lawrence Livermore National Security</a>, a member of the board of directors of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Comprehensive_Cancer_Network" title="National Comprehensive Cancer Network" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">National Comprehensive Cancer Network</a>, and was chairman of the board of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Foundation.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; font-size: 11.2px; text-wrap: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In August 2013, the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_Bangladesh_Worker_Safety" title="Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety</a>&nbsp;elected Tauscher as independent chairperson.<sup id="cite_ref-chairperson_2013_32-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-chairperson_2013-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">[32]</a></sup>&nbsp;The Alliance is a coalition of some of the largest clothing retailers and brands in North America, including Wal-Mart, Target, the Gap, Costco, and VF Brands. The Alliance is working with the government of Bangladesh, factory owners, and international organizations to improve worker safety for Bangladeshi garment workers.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tauscher was also a strategic advisor to the Washington, D.C. law firm of Baker Donelson on matters of defense, transportation, energy, and health care.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; font-size: 11.2px; text-wrap: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tauscher was a member of the ReFormers Caucus of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issue_One" title="Issue One" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Issue One</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; text-wrap: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Tauscher#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">[33]</a></sup></p></div><div>
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/03/environmentalist-lawyer-fighting-protect-big-oil-litigation-astroturf-phil-goldberg-map/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.motherjones.com/environment<b>/2022/03</b>/environmentalist-lawyer-fighting-protect-big-oil-litigation-astroturf-phil-goldberg-map/</a></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">i</font><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">n the spring of 2019, Phil Goldberg, a lawyer and hired gun for a front organization serving some of America’s most powerful oil firms, spotted an opportunity to serve his masters.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The University of Hawaii was holding a conference about a wave of lawsuits against the oil industry, and Goldberg was alarmed the event failed to include representatives from the energy business. So the day before the symposium, he fired off an email to the university demanding that big oil be heard alongside its critics</span>.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The event was to interrogate the oil industry’s decades-long cover-up involving the climate crisis. But a one-sided debate, Goldberg wrote, “does students and the general public a significant disservice.” He insisted the meeting be postponed.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Denise Antolini, associate dean at the university’s l<b>aw school who organized the conference</b>, said in her 23-year-career as a law professor, she had never received such demands. “Your request to disrupt our public event was quite surprising, especially coming from far across the continent, from someone I’ve never heard of, on behalf of a private client with an apparently direct financial interest in chilling debate about climate litigation,” she replied.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The conference went ahead, but Goldberg chalked up his intervention as a win. He had managed to pressure Antolini into reciting his objections to the conference in her opening statement. He also convinced the university to post his blogs on its website alongside a letter published by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser denouncing the meeting for daring to suggest there was a solid legal case against the oil companies.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Goldberg is part of a network of enablers working to preserve big oil’s power and reputation as it faces a barrage of litigation.</b>&nbsp;More than two dozen cities, states and municipalities allege the industry lied to Americans for decades by downplaying and outright denying that fossil fuels caused climate change. The lawsuits demand companies use some of their vast profits to help pay for the human toll of the climate crisis, including the damage brought by rising seas and increasingly severe weather disasters.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Big Oil “has this ability to really take command of the societal narrative on a whole level that the tobacco industry just didn’t.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Desperate to avoid costly settlements, the fossil fuel industry relies on front organizations to discredit the litigation and sway public opinion in its favor. So nearly three years ago, the friends of big oil turned to Goldber</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">g,&nbsp;a former Democratic congressional aide</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> and self-described “committed environmentalist,”</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;HIPPIE CHICK&nbsp;</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">to persuade Americans that the companies responsible for the growing climate disaster are now the ones to fix the problem.</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Though Goldberg heads an ostensibly independent initiative called the Manufacturers Accountability Project,&nbsp;</span>much of its funding comes from some of the biggest names in the oil business. MAP hired Goldberg to push back against litigation on the fossil fuel industry’s behalf,<b>&nbsp;allowing oil companies to keep their hands clean in the process.</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Goldberg is leading a charge in local media to&nbsp;<b>discredit those suing the fossil fuel industry as a “fringe litigation movement” conspiracy of opportunistic politicians, environmental extremists, and money-grasping lawyers who pose a threat to the American way of life. // ENTINE</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“There are two goals of this litigation—drive climate policy and wage a public relations campaign against the energy industry,” Goldberg told the Guardian. “It has no foundation legally and, more to the point, is not the right way to fight climate change.” LOMBORGIAN</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Karen Sokol, a law professor at Loyola University who specializes in climate litigation, likens the strategy to that pursued by the tobacco industry when it faced litigation over what it knew about cigarettes causing lung cancer. But, she said, the strategy may prove more successful for big oil.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">“The fossil fuel industry has this ability to really take command of the societal narrative on a whole level that the tobacco industry just didn’t because, although we were definitely a cigarette culture for a time, not everybody was so dependent on cigarettes in the same way we are on fossil fuels,” she said.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Kert Davies, founder and director of Climate Investigations Center,</b>&nbsp;is scathing about Goldberg’s part in that. “Phil Goldberg is a useful pawn on a much larger chessboard. If he doesn’t know that, it’s a shame,” Davies said. “If he does know his role, it’s worse.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Outwardly, Goldberg seems an unusual bearer of the torch to snuff out climate lawsuits. The New Jersey-born lawyer characterizes himself as a “progressive, pro-environmentalist” with a long commitment to Democratic causes. With that, he has positioned himself as a voice of reason as he leads the fossil fuel industry’s campaign to distract Americans from the scene of the crime and embrace big oil as a necessity in the struggle to contain global heating.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But Goldberg is also a former coal lobbyist now working as an attorney for a Kansas City law firm—<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Shook, Hardy and Bacon</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">—that made its name decades ago as the cigarette industry’s attack dog. The legal practice even gained public notoriety for inspiring the fictional law firm of Smoot, Hawking in the satirical book turned film, Thank You for Smoking.</span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“What a sad and disquieting chapter in the history of an honorable and often courageous profession.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Shook, Hardy pioneered a strategy toward avoiding corporate accountability—a denial strategy the oil companies followed not many years later</b>. Starting in the mid-80s, the firm convinced cigarette companies to shut down research into the dangers of nicotine, warning it could be used against them in court. It also hired specialists with advanced scientific degrees to cast doubt on the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer. The firm’s lawyers soon developed a reputation for probing the lives of people who dared to sue the tobacco firms and for using court procedure to draw out cases until plaintiffs ran out of funds.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">All of this so disgusted one federal<b>&nbsp;judge, Gladys Kessler, that in a damning 2006 civil judgment against the cigarette makers she said Shook,</b>&nbsp;Hardy and other firms played “an absolutely central role in the creation and perpetuation” of a 50-year campaign of deceit.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“They devised and coordinated both national and international strategy; they directed scientists as to what research they should and should not undertake; they vetted scientific research papers and reports as well as public relations materials to ensure that the interests of the (tobacco industry) would be protected,” she wrote.&nbsp;<b>“What a sad and disquieting chapter in the history of an honorable and often courageous profession.”</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The chapter cemented Shook, Hardy’s reputation for vigorously defending clients and drew other contentious industries to the firm. And since joining Shook, Hardy in 2003, Goldberg has lived up to its reputation for playing hardball.</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Throughout his career, Goldberg has developed an expertise at combatting public accountability lawsuits on the behalf of many embattled corporate clients, including<b>&nbsp;coal companies, the asbestos industry, and pharmaceutical companies accused of medical malpractice.</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Goldberg has also advised the American Legislative Exchange Council on drafting laws to make it harder to sue big corporations.</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Simultaneously over the last two decades, he has led a wing of the<b> Democratic think tank, the Progressive Policy Institute</b>, that works to protect corporations from lawsuits and to keep regulatory changes in the hands of politicians who can be influenced by industry money and lobbyists.</span>&nbsp;Goldberg has also advised the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council on drafting laws to make it harder to sue big corporations.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Goldberg’s current defense of the fossil-fuel industry is equally focused.<b>&nbsp;He deflects questions about Big Oil’s cover-up of its own scientific research on global heating by claiming that raking over the past is not going to help find solutions to the climate crisis. He also avoids answering questions about parallels with the tobacco industry’s actions.</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Instead, Goldberg has sought to nurture a progressive image with claims to be dedicated to the climate fight but concerned that suing oil companies is getting in the way of solutions. He goes out of his way to say that he “cares deeply about climate change” and, in his answers, returns repeatedly to “the important work that needs to be done on the climate.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This image was carried through to the Guardian‘s photographs for this article, which Goldberg agreed to pose for only while riding his bicycle. He declined to remove his helmet for any of the pictures.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Today, Goldberg is at the face of a PR campaign to squash climate litigation against Big Oil. He calls his strategy the “iron triangle defense.” One side of the triangle is dedicated toward shaping the public narrative, the second is for pressuring legislatures to write laws that discourage corporate accountability litigation, and the third side influences the judicial process with&nbsp;<b>amicus briefs</b>&nbsp;in cases that might have a bearing on those lawsuits.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A key part of the iron triangle strategy is that its beneficiaries should not be seen as the ones who are pulling the strings. Corporations fighting legal battles learned long ago that Americans are not particularly trustful of executives in suits. So major industries seek to influence public opinion and political action by&nbsp;<b>funding front organizations to work on the behalf of corporate interests,</b>&nbsp;but under a different name.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It was an obvious move for the fossil-fuel industry to turn toward front groups as it grew increasingly alarmed in recent years at a surge in lawsuits demanding compensation for damage caused by the climate crisis. Oil executives feared a repeat of the tobacco industry’s fate when public opinion turned sharply against the cigarette makers, forcing the largest civil settlement in US history.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Say a new locality files a suit … Suddenly the local press is infiltrated with Goldberg quotes. He fires out op-eds.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Major oil firms, including Exxon, Shell and Chevron, looked to the National Association of Manufacturers, one of the US’s most powerful business lobby groups, with a long history of creating front organizations at the behest of various industries, to help<b>&nbsp;“combat frivolous, politically motivated lawsuits&nbsp;</b>against energy manufacturers.”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Four years ago, NAM launched a group, the Manufacturers Accountability Project, to take the campaign in defense of big oil on to the streets and into the local media</b>. A year later, it recruited Goldberg to lead the initiative. While much of their strategy is an attempt to intimidate litigants through the legal process,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Goldberg’s role is to take the fight to local communities in an attempt to mold public opinion—and potential jurors—before the cases come to court.</span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>From local newspapers to NPR,</b>&nbsp;Goldberg pushes arguments designed to deflect from the fossil fuel industry’s responsibility for the climate crisis. “Those of us who care deeply about climate change, our economy, and our way of life must focus our elected leaders on&nbsp;<b>game-changing innovations, not these politically-driven litigations,</b>” he wrote in the New Jersey Globe after three&nbsp;<b>New Jersey senators pressed the state to sue Big Oil to pay up for the costs caused by their deceptions.</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Goldberg has pursued similar lines after the attorneys general of Vermont and Connecticut filed cases against the oil industry. “We should be fighting climate change instead of each other,”</span>&nbsp;he reasoned in the local press.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sokol, the law professor and climate litigation specialist, said she saw Goldberg’s intervention tactics everywhere there is a lawsuit against the fossil fuel industry. “Say a new locality files a suit… Suddenly the local press is infiltrated with Goldberg quotes.&nbsp;<b>He fires out op-eds,” she said. “It’s a concerted battle against this litigation, which in many ways is a testament to how powerful the industry suspects this could be if it’s allowed to have its day in court.</b>”</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Still, even in Goldberg’s home state, there are plenty who are not buying it. In 2020, three New Jersey state senators pressed the state to sue Big Oil to pay up for the past and present costs caused by their deceptions.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Rather than alert the public and help usher in the transition to clean energy, big oil took a page out of big tobacco’s playbook and funded and led a decades-long campaign to lie, deceive, and confuse the public about the science of climate change,” two of the senators, one Democrat and one Republican, wrote in USA Today. “It’s only fair that these fossil fuel companies who got rich while igniting the climate crisis are made to pay their fair share of the costs to our communities.”</font></div></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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