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| | [[Image:Browner3.jpg|right|200px|thumb| Carol Browner]] | | [[Image:Browner3.jpg|right|200px|thumb| Carol Browner]] |
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| − | '''Carol Browner''' (b. December 16, 1955) in Miami, Florida, she is a lobbyist hired by [[Barack Hussein Obama]] as energy czar and the former [[Environmental Protection Agency]] administrator in the [[Clinton Administration]]. Also, the former [[Florida]] Department of Environmental Regulation head. She has years experience with environmental issues and takes an extremists viewpoint on [[Global Warming]]. | + | '''Carol Browner''' (b. December 16, 1955, in Miami, Florida) is a lobbyist hired by President [[Barack Hussein Obama]] as energy czar and was the [[Environmental Protection Agency]] administrator in the [[Clinton Administration]]. She is also the former head of the [[Florida]] Department of Environmental Regulation. She has years of experience with environmental issues and takes an extremist viewpoint on [[Global Warming]]. |
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| | ==Background== | | ==Background== |
| − | Browner graduated with B.A. in [[English]] and a law degree from the University of Florida in 1977. Browner married Michael Podhorzer in 1987 and they have a son Zachary born in the same year. She divorced and is now on her third marriage to Thomas Downey, a former Democratic congressman from New York. <ref>[http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/politics/blog/2007/01/downey_browner_to_marry.html Downey, Browner to Marry] Newsday, January 8, 2007</ref> He is a [[Washington]] lobbyist for ExxonMobil and a dozen firms on energy policy. She was named "[[Mother]] of the Year" in April 1997 by the National Mother's Day Committee for her dedication to providing "children with a safer, healthier world." She was also named Glamour magazine's [[Woman]] of the Year in 1998. <ref>[http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1866567,00.html Energy Czar: Carol Browner] Time, December 15, 2008</ref> | + | Browner graduated from the [[University of Florida]] with B.A. in [[English]] in 1977 and a law degree in 1979. She married Michael Podhorzer in 1987, and they have a son, Zachary, born in the same year. She divorced and is now in her third marriage, to Thomas Downey, a former Democratic congressman from New York.<ref>[http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/politics/blog/2007/01/downey_browner_to_marry.html Downey, Browner to Marry] Newsday, January 8, 2007</ref> He is a [[Washington]] lobbyist for ExxonMobil and a dozen other firms on energy policy. She was named "[[Mother]] of the Year" in April 1997 by the National Mother's Day Committee for her dedication to providing "children with a safer, healthier world." She was also named ''Glamour'' magazine's [[Woman]] of the Year in 1998.<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1866567,00.html Energy Czar: Carol Browner] Time, December 15, 2008</ref> |
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| | ==Clinton Administration== | | ==Clinton Administration== |
| − | Browner was ordered by a federal judge to keep her data files for the incoming [[Bush Administration]] and for the [[Freedom of Information Act]]. Instead she ordered the files destroyed and the back-up tapes erased. She claimed she had no clue about a court injunction signed by [[U.S.]] District Judge Royce Lamberth. <ref>[http://michellemalkin.com/2008/12/12/crooked-carol-browner-obamas-ethically-challenged-energy-czar/ Crooked Carol Browner] Michelle Malkin, December 12, 2008</ref> After a two-year legal battle, Judge Lamberth finally held the [[EPA]] in contempt of court for the systemic file destruction. Also, Browner got caught by a congressional subcommittee using taxpayer funds to create and send out illegal lobbying material to over 100 grassroots [[environmental]] lobbying organizations. She installed more than a dozen environmental group operatives into EPA posts. <ref>[http://www.undueinfluence.com/carol_browner.htm Carol Browner] Unduinfluence.com</ref> | + | Browner was ordered by a federal judge to keep her data files for the incoming [[Bush Administration]] and for the [[Freedom of Information Act]]. Instead she ordered the files destroyed and the back-up tapes erased. She claimed she had no clue about a court injunction signed by [[U.S.]] District Judge Royce Lamberth.<ref>[http://michellemalkin.com/2008/12/12/crooked-carol-browner-obamas-ethically-challenged-energy-czar/ Crooked Carol Browner] Michelle Malkin, December 12, 2008</ref> After a two-year legal battle, Judge Lamberth finally held the [[EPA]] in contempt of court for the systemic file destruction. Also, Browner got caught by a congressional subcommittee using taxpayer funds to create and send out illegal lobbying material to over 100 grassroots [[environmental]] lobbying organizations. She installed more than a dozen environmental group operatives into EPA posts.<ref>[http://www.undueinfluence.com/carol_browner.htm Carol Browner] Unduinfluence.com</ref> |
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| | ==Socialism== | | ==Socialism== |
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| | ==Global Warming Alarmism== | | ==Global Warming Alarmism== |
| − | Browner is a member of or a [[lobbyist]] for the following leftwing environmental organizations; | + | Browner is a member of or a [[lobbyist]] for the following leftwing environmental organizations: |
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| | * Commission for a Sustainable World Society | | * Commission for a Sustainable World Society |
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| | * Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection | | * Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection |
| | * Citizen Action | | * Citizen Action |
| − | * APX, Inc | + | * APX, Inc. |
| | * League of Conservation Voters | | * League of Conservation Voters |
| | * Albright Group | | * Albright Group |