This week, on a very special Adventures of Wayne Tracker: a judge gave Exxon until the end of the month to “find” emails that should’ve been included in the company’s response to New York AG Eric Schneiderman's requests. They also need to explain why those emails weren’t included in the first place.
No doubt Exxon will come up with a good excuse for excluding the eight years of emails from Rex Tillerson’s alias, and an even better one for the year-long period from September 2014-2015 in which it apparently lost track emails from the Tracker account. (A time that, as Bloomberg points out, covers the period when Exxon and Russian state oil company Rosneft had to stop drilling in the Arctic to comply with sanctions.)
Poor, beleaguered Exxon and its downtrodden former-CEO-turned-secretary-of-State. Who will step up and defend them from these heinous attacks?
Enter Maine Representative Larry Lockman (R-Amherst), who has proposed a bill to protect one’s climate policy preferences at the same level as race, religion and sexual orientation. It would specifically prohibit the state from pursuing the RICO case against Exxon, and ensure that purchasing and hiring decisions don’t take climate policy preferences into account.
The AP’s coverage provides a little context about the kind of person Lockman is: “He once dressed as a vampire outside a federal building in Bangor to protest the Internal Revenue Service. He also once accused liberals of assisting the AIDS epidemic, saying they assured ‘the public that the practice of sodomy is a legitimate alternative lifestyle, rather than a perverted and depraved crime against humanity.’"
Charming.
The Daily Caller talked to their buddy Marc Morano about the proposed legislation who said that, “If just about every other group in America gets to enjoy special ‘rights’ isn’t it about time climate skeptics joined that community?”
Because no one’s discriminated against quite like those defending one of the most profitable companies in human history and whose CEO just became secretary of State, a job he didn’t want but was forced to accept at his wife’s insistence.
Poor, poor Rex Tillerson. Our heart bleeds for you, Wayne Tracker, international man of mysterious emails.
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