Virginia has become the first state to crack down on billionaire Michael R. Bloomberg’s effort to embed within the attorney general’s office privately funded lawyers dedicated to pursuing climate change litigation.
The Republican-controlled General Assembly inserted an amendment in the 2019 biennial budget requiring those working for the attorney general to be state or federal government employees — with certain exceptions — and paid solely with public funds.
Last week’s addition to the $100 billion budget bill, which goes to Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, for his signature, would appear to nix any effort by Attorney General Mark Herring to bring on climate lawyers paid for by the Bloomberg-funded State Energy & Environmental Impact Center at the New York University School of Law.
Cheering the amendment was Chris Horner, senior fellow at the free market Competitive Enterprise Institute who hailed Virginia as the first state to take action against what he has called “private mercenaries” engaged in “law enforcement for rent.”
“Sunday’s vote is a statement from Virginia’s elected representatives that Bloomberg’s money can’t buy a donor’s way into Virginia law enforcement,” Mr. Horner said in a social media post. “We applaud this vote while wondering what’s wrong with the rest of these legislatures.”
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Total BS that it's allowed to be done in the first place,corruption.
ReplyDeleteHe is a Bloomberg.
ReplyDeleteCome on. One of the families.
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing he gets around like Gore, DeCaprio, Michael Moore, AOC and all the other blowhards. Wouldn't look to good when given scrutiny.
In addition to Oregon and Virginia, the other jurisdictions that have been accepted to receive Bloomberg-funded prosecutors are Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington and the District of Columbia, according to the center.
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