Think Progress has the story – someone should start the countdown clock on this for the astro-turf going on in the Health Reform debacle.

The top coal lobbying coalition in Washington, D.C. hid its knowledge of “fraudulent grassroots lobbying” while Congress voted against clean energy legislation on June 26, 2009. A background document from the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) reveals that it learned two days before the vote on Waxman-Markey that Bonner & Associates had sent a dozen forged letters opposing the American Clean Energy and Security Act to at least three members of the House of Representatives:

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Mirroring arguments made in the forged letters, Dahlkemper argued that “hardworking families simply cannot afford the additional costs that this legislation would impose on them” and Carney attacked the bill for “burdening hard-working Americans with a tax increase and without passing along increased energy bills to consumers.”

Read it all – HERE