The day after she blew by student organizers on her way into a $2,500/plate fundraiser with energy lobbyists, Lisa Murkowski suddenly expressed her new found appreciation of protestors.
On a Chamber of Commerce conference call, Senator Murkowski responded to a compliment from coal baron and noted asshole Robert Murray* by boasting about her very “own group of protestors”:
I actually had an event here in Washington last night and I had my own group of protestors show up, and I guess you know you’ve arrived in politics when you generate your own group of protestors against you.
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In case you missed it yesterday, here’s the video of Murkowski “meeting” her “fan club” before heading to meet her actual biggest fans, lobbyists representing Big Oil and Dirty Coal:
* In addition to his general disdain for our planet and all that inhabits it, is it possible that Mr. Murray’s current antipathy to the EPA is related to its opposition of his recent proposal to build a new toxic coal slurry impoundment?
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