(CNSNews.com) – "The idea that everything government unions do is political leads you to immediately look to the First Amendment to protect individuals who should not be compelled to fund speech that they disagree with," Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, told CNSNews.com.
On March 29, the Attorneys General of 19 states announced their intent to conduct concerted state regulatory action against the fossil fuel industry, the American Legislative Exchange Council, and unknown, unnamed others described as "climate change deniers." The announcement represents an alarming escalation of the Martin Act investigation against Exxon Mobil begun last fall by New York, and a similar investigation by California – both right on cue with the next presidential election season.
This time, seven AGs gathered behind an "AGs United for Clean Power" banner, along with their "rock star" celebrity spokesman, Al Gore, to level charges of fraud, deceit and racketeering about "what energy companies knew about climate change and when did they know it." Gore went so far as to attribute recent natural disasters such as Hurricane Sandy and a storm in the Philippines — and even the movement of the Zika virus and its impact on human reproduction – to climate change. Not to generate hysteria, or anything.
