Kansas AFP director acknowledges informal contact with group behind energy mailings
A day after denying any connection to a direct mail campaign against the state’s renewable energy standards, the Kansas director of Americans For Prosperity said that he helped connect the group’s founder with an attorney so that it could form as an LLC.
Jeff Glendening, the state director of AFP, said Thursday that he had connected Virginia Crossland-Macha, founder of Kansas Senior Consumer Alliance, with attorney W. Robert Alderson. He said he had forgotten this when he was interviewed by The Eagle on Wednesday.
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Kansas Senior Consumer Alliance sent out postcards to several House districts last week, warning that renewable energy standards would drive up electric rates for seniors. The return address on the postcards belongs to Crossland-Macha, a conservative activist in Iola.
Crossland-Macha is the sister of Ivan Crossland, the Kansas Chamber of Commerce’s chair. The group’s registered lobbyist is Alan Cobb, the former Kansas director of Americans For Prosperity.
On Wednesday, both groups denied any connection to the postcards in interviews with The Eagle. Cobb and Crossland-Macha also said their organization, which formed as a limited liability corporation in April, was unrelated to the chamber and AFP.
But Alderson, a Topeka attorney, told the Topeka Capital-Journal on Thursday that he was approached by AFP to form the group as an LLC.
Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2014/05/08/3446177/kansas-afp-director-admits-informal.html#storylink=cpy
another link here:
http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/377618062b3542e990b15becd7fd910b/KS--Renewable-Standards-Postcards
and another link here:
http://m.cjonline.com/news/2014-05-08/afp-state-leader-admits-link-group-opposing-renewable-energy-law
Lots and lots and lots of backpedaling on this one. AFP (Koch bros) gets caught coordinating with a fake grass roots organization mailing out postcards to scare older Kansans with fake facts. Who knew?
