Here’s an interesting item from an environmentalist group opposing the Pebble Mine project in Alaska. They’re running a road show, not in Alaska, but in mainland cities to try and stir up the masses. Here’s a bit from their blog post about Monday’s Seattle event…
Monday night marked the kick off of the Save Bristol Bay Road Show in Seattle at the classic Leif Erikson hall in Ballard. Nearly 300 Washington residents including fishermen, Alaska Natives, and sportsmen turned out to watch the award-winning film, Red Gold, and get engaged in the campaign to stop Pebble mine.
I met countless commercial fishermen last night who live in Washington but make their income from fishing in Bristol Bay – I think every one of them signed a thank you letter to Senators Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray for their support of the fishing industry.
…On the up side, plenty of people won great prizes in our gear giveaway and maybe you were one of the lucky ones who got a gift card to The Fly Shop or a cedar plank for cooking salmon. Congratulations to Maren Chapman who won an Orvis fly rod and reel worth $500.
What they fail to mention that all those ‘Road Show’ attendees were asked to sign letters to Sens. Murray and Cantwell in exchange for entry into the prize drawing. The Facebook pictures of the event spill the beans on that scam.
The caption reads: “Folks signed letters to Washington Senators Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray,which entered them in the gear giveaway.”
For the anti-Pebble crew this kind of faux populism is par for the course, as the entire operation (to the tune of tens of millions of dollars ([example 1, example 2]) is financed by Robert Gillam, CEO of McKinley Capital Management, the richest man in Alaska.
The Save Bristol Bay Road Show is heading to many of the #Occupy cites this month and will surely be attended by the #OWS types, who will be blissfully unaware that the whole campaign is being funded by one of the %1…
Update: At about the 3:30 minute mark in the video below, you’ll hear event organizers tell the audience that they really do need to sign a letter to their representative to get entered in the raffle for a thousand dollars of donated goods.
