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Switchboard, from NRDC: Is the US Chamber Guilty of Member-Inflating?
TreeHugger: News From Mother Jones: October 15 - The Incredible Shrinking Chamber of Commerce! and More...
Climate Progress: The Biggest Loser: Incredible, shrinking Chamber of Commerce goes from 3 million members to just 300,000 in one day!
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http://tinyurl.com/yl6x97s The US Chamber of Commerce is using fact-free math to inflate membership numbers! oops! BUSTED! 25 days ago |
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Anti #hcr US chamber of Commerce claims 3M mbrs, actually has closer to 200K, vastly overstating its membership http://bit.ly/1eLAAh #p2 25 days ago |
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce has vastly overstated its size in recent years: http://bit.ly/1eLAAh - Must. not. make. obvious. penis. joke. 10/18/2009 |
Is the US Chamber Guilty of Member-Inflating?
Switchboard, from NRDC —
... Mother Jones' Josh Harkinson has been looking into the US Chamber's claims to have 3 million members, one it has been invoking more frequently since it has come under increasing attack from companies that disagree with the Chamber's position. As Harkinson writes: ...
The US Chamber's Continuing Climate Credibility Crisis
Switchboard, from NRDC —
... Tough Questions About the Real Size of the Chamber's Powerbase. Does the Chamber really speak for 3 million businesses? It turns out that those numbers just don't add up: ...
Chamber Membership Falls by 2.7 Million Due to ... Scrutiny
Switchboard, from NRDC —
... A day after Mother Jones exposed the US Chamber of Commerce's inflated membership numbers, the Chamber quietly backed off the figure in its public statements. At a Washington press conference this morning unveiling the Chamber's Campaign for Free Enterprise, Chamber officials repeatedly cited a membership of 300,000. That's a tenth as many members as the Chamber claimed a day earlier, when a press release for the Washington event said the Chamber represented "more than 3 million businesses and organizations of every size, sector, and region. ...
News From Mother Jones: October 15 - The Incredible Shrinking Chamber of Commerce! and More...
TreeHugger —
... at the organization's Draconian climate policies. That's too bad for the Chamber, especially since, as Josh Harkinson reports, the Chamber wasn't as big as it claimed it was. Three million businesses strong? Not by a long ...Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
News From Mother Jones: October 15
TreeHugger —
... at the organization's Draconian climate policies. That's too bad for the Chamber, especially since, as Josh Harkinson reports, the Chamber wasn't as big as it claimed it was. Three million businesses strong? Not by a long ...Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
The Biggest Loser: Incredible, shrinking Chamber of Commerce goes from 3 million members to just 300,000 in one day!
Climate Progress —
... As Mother Jones reported yesterday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce consistently says that its membership is 3 million, even though it’s actually closer to 200,000. The reason for the artificial inflation is that the organization is counting the memberships of 2,800 state and local chambers around the country, even though many of these businesses have no relationship with the national organization. Some of these members are now ...
Would the Real Chamber of Commerce Please Stand Up?
Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit —
... claiming that the Chamber had changed its mind on climate change. This prompted a funny/sad exchange between the Yes Men fake flak and a real flak from the chamber, Eric Wohlschlegel, who arrived breathless at the phony conference to denounce the pretender — and save his job, no doubt. Now comes an investigation by Mother Jones that undermines the very foundation of the chamber: that it actually represents vast swaths of American businesses. The Chamber of Who? In an article on the Mother Jones website, Josh Harkinson writes that the Chamber’s claim to represent “over 3 ...
US Chamber of Commerce Punks the Yes Men
Greenfyre's —
... While the CoC has attempted to portray the losses from their ranks as representing only a tiny fraction of their overall membership, the truth is rather different. For one thing the actual CoC membership is only a fraction of what they claim (here, here and here).
While the Chambers total head count may not be much affected by the firms that have left, these businesses are huge and the loss in terms of economic and political clout is significant.
Further, these are just the ones that we have heard about. Apple will make the news when ...
Greens have finally got the Big Mo
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... . Then it emerged that the CoC’s membership numbers were wildly inflated—not 3 million business, but more like 200,000. Then the Yes Men came along and ...
