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It looks like our friends at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have mostly succeeded in alienating local members in their airwave war against West Virginia. This AP item appeared in today's Huntington Herald Dispatch:
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- The ads may have left the airwaves, but the backlash continues against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its campaign attacking West Virginia's courts.
The Charleston Regional Chamber of Commerce became the latest offshoot of the national business group to complain, earlier this month.
"The tone of these advertisements has a negative impact on our ability to recruit new businesses to the state," Chairman James M. Sturgeon Jr. wrote to U.S. Chamber President Tom Donahue. "We also doubt that these ads will aid in achieving improvements in the legal system."
There's plenty more to the article, including a scathing review of U.S. Chamber propaganda by FactCheck.org.
El Cabrero has mixed emotions here. Part of me wants them to just pipe down and the other wants them to spend lots of money for nothing...
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