Comments on: Government buys billboards urging more power for government https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/04/government-buys-billboards-urging-power-government/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 06 Apr 2016 13:53:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: David C https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/04/government-buys-billboards-urging-power-government/comment-page-1/#comment-335061 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 03:55:35 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=58471#comment-335061 “The EPA says it concluded What’s Upstream has not broken prohibitions on lobbying with federal funds because it has not advocated for or against specific legislation. ”

That’s laughable. It would be one thing if they were encouraging farmers to obey the law. But they complain about UNregulated agriculture. That’s clearly taking a position in favor of more regulations.

And it’s one thing for the EPA or an affiliated group to tell Congress that they recommend certain regulations. It’s quite another thing to spend taxpayer money to put up billboards to convince the public.

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