Report: Democrats got 96% of Big Green campaign contributions.

This really shouldn't surprise anyone: Mark Tapscott: Loads of campaign cash make Big Green a Democratic powerhouse

Officials of a dozen top Big Green environmental groups contributed more than $14.5 million to congressional and presidential candidates in 2008 and through the second quarter of 2010 with 96 percent of the total going to Democrats, according to an Examiner analysis of federal campaign data.

...Six of the dozen collectively received more than $160 million in federal grants and contracts, according to their 2008 or 2007 IRS tax returns, with the Nature Conservancy's $110.6 million being the highest, followed by the Trust for Public Land ($28 million), Audubon Society ($17.5 million), the Environmental Defense Fund (parent of the EDF Action Fund) with $3.6 million, Natural Resources Defense Council ($358,072) and Defenders of Wildlife ($205,021).

And just guess who was the #1 recipient. Just guess.

President Obama was the biggest recipient by far of contributions with a total of more than $2.4 million. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was Obama's main 2008 primary rival, got $86,500.

...Obama's biggest groups of environmental supporters came from the Sierra Club ($917,965) and Defenders of Wildlife ($905,375).

And via Instapundit: Charlie Martin on Green Power and "Long Green." "This is how the big money in the environmental activism industry translates into political power."Also this: How the Environmental Movement Became Just Another Washington Power Bloc. And this also via Instaoundit: Environmentalists aren't really about clean air and water. Of course not!

http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2010/09/report-democrats-got-96-of-big-green.html

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