{"id":19388,"date":"2013-11-11T16:13:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T21:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19388"},"modified":"2013-11-11T16:15:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T21:15:14","slug":"shady-environmental-extremist-may-have-succeeded-in-buying-the-virginia-governor%e2%80%99s-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19388\/shady-environmental-extremist-may-have-succeeded-in-buying-the-virginia-governor%e2%80%99s-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Shady Environmental Extremist May Have Succeeded in Buying the Virginia Governor\u2019s Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, I wrote a piece <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/10\/08\/tom-steyer-the-shady-billionaire-with-millions-of-reasons-to-kill-keystone-xl\/\" target=\"_blank\">exposing the shady dealings<\/a> of sleazy environmental activist and billionaire Tom Steyer. If you haven\u2019t been following <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19099\/meet-the-sleazy-environmentalist-who-could-make-millions-by-standing-in-the-way-of-keystone-xl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steyer\u2019s shenanigans<\/a>, he has poured millions into a media campaign and a PAC in hopes of preventing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>While Steyer claims his efforts are rooted in his environmentalism, it turns out his opposition to Keystone are entirely economically motivated. <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19099\/meet-the-sleazy-environmentalist-who-could-make-millions-by-standing-in-the-way-of-keystone-xl\/\" target=\"_blank\">As I pointed out<\/a>, Steyer stands to make millions of dollars because of his investment in the TransMountain pipeline. Without Keystone in the way TransMountain would have a monopoly in transporting oil from Alberta to refineries and shipping terminals in the U.S. and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Politico released an article today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/11\/tom-steyer-virginia-election-2013-climate-change-99611.html?hp=t1\" target=\"_blank\">outlining Steyer\u2019s role<\/a> in the recently concluded Virginia governor\u2019s race between scandal-plagued Clinton crony Terry McAuliffe and Republican Ken Cuccinelli. Steyer poured $8 million of his personal fortune into McAuliffe\u2019s campaign, perhaps making the difference in a race decided by just 3 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>Steyer\u2019s campaign \u201cinvestment\u201d appears to be just another in his continuing effort to fill the top rungs of government in Washington and beyond with environmental loons and lawmakers who will offer tax breaks and other deals that benefit his investments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, I wrote a piece exposing the shady dealings of sleazy environmental activist and billionaire Tom Steyer. If you haven\u2019t been following Steyer\u2019s shenanigans, he has poured millions into a media campaign and a PAC in hopes of preventing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. While Steyer claims his efforts are rooted in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2172,3293,4371,4315,704],"class_list":["post-19388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-ken-cuccinelli","tag-keystone-xl","tag-terry-mcauliffe","tag-tom-steyer","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19390,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19388\/revisions\/19390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}