By GottaLaff
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Remember Bonner and Associates? Rachel Maddow has done a great job of exposing their little antics. I guess they heard her... and Congress:
Bonner & Associates, the DC 'strategic grassroots' firm facing a Congressional investigation for sending forged letters opposing the climate bill to members of Congress, is instituting a new No Forgeries ethics program to get out in front of the emerging scandal and ensure its astroturf campaigns are not tainted in the future.
"This is a very rare occurrence," says a Bonner spokesman who asked that his name be withheld as a condition of talking to TPMmuckraker. "In response to it, as of August 11, the company has introduced a five-point check against this sort of thing. And every employee at Bonner has signed it and dated it."
Rule number one: no forged letters.
Wowee, good for them. It's not every day we get a check list that assures us of no forgeries.
Funny...Most firms wouldn't feel the need to so much as consider including something like that... Oh, but leave it to Bonner, they don't miss a trick. Always thinking of The People.
With reassurance like that, who needs investigations?
More details over at TPM, and they're important to read, but let me leave you with their last sentence. It's swell!
In other words: Bonner clients can be sure of ethical, best practices astroturf campaigns from here on out.
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