http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/22/1331630/-Google-chairman-on-ALEC-They-re-just-literally-lying?detail=email
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said Monday that the company's participation in, and funding of, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) was a "mistake," and that the organization's fight against climate legislation and in promoting denial of global warming is "making the world a much worse place."
my friends you might have noticed a lot of orgs. and businesses are abandoning republican and right wing entities and sighting their deceptive practices as why i suggest they knew from the beginning but they to embraced those practices they now decry, IMO because "we the people" are making some noise here and there think what might happen if we did it everywhere?Google Chairman Eric Schmidt indicated in an interview Monday with NPR's Diane Rehm that Google would drop its ALEC membership "in the future," but did not specify a date."We funded them as part of a political [campaign] of something unrelated," Schmidt said in response to a caller asking if Google "is still supporting" the influential conservative organization. "I think the consensus within the company was that that was some sort of mistake, and so we're trying to not do that in the future."Rehm then asked Schmidt why Google first involved itself with ALEC."Well, the company has a very strong view that we should make decisions in politics based on facts—what a shock," Schmidt said. "And the facts of climate change are not in question anymore. Everyone understands climate change is occurring, and the people who oppose it are really hurting our children and our grandchildren and making the world a much worse place. And so we should not be aligned with such people—they're just, they're just literally lying."
