JENNERATIONX
Tom Karas says quit “whining” while he kills our children’s future.
A couple of weeks back, I noticed that Tom Karas, an out-of town environmentalist, was planning to show up at the Presque Isle Electric and Gas Co-op annual meeting to formally demand a complete financial disclosure of Wolverine’s Power Plant proposal. He stated so openly in an editorial in the Advance.
Knowing that he had been actively trying to kill the future of Rogers City by casting aspersions against the financing of the coal plant for almost two years now, I threw his demand back in his face.
Advance (10/29/09) Opinion:
To the editor,
As a member of Presque Isle Electric and Gas Co-op, I hereby introduce a motion demanding Tom Karas’ financial disclosure. By carefully following the coal plant story for the past three years, I know he has started at least three web sites without disclosure to the public of who pays for them. I know he has paid for at least one study that is biased in nature and shares his world view. I also know that he himself has admitted that he gets paid from San Francisco to continue to force Wolverine to spend money to address his concerns. I want to know who he is paid by, how much he is paid, and more importantly, how much money he stands to gain if this coal plant does not go through. I have been writing about this coal plant on my blog. You can read it at http://jennerationx.wordpress.com/rogers-city-coal-plant/.
Jennifer M. Kuznicki
Rogers City(sic)
Hawks
Tom has distastefully responded to my inquiry by leaving an arrogant comment on my website and like a school-yard bully, sent me an email to try to get me to meet him for a photo-op in front of the Advance to accept his tax returns from last year.
I have decided to handle the inquiry in this manner.
As you can see by reading The Proposed Coal-Fired Power Plant in Rogers City, MI Part 5, my inquiry was a result of Karas’ own words.
Part 5--Quoting from the Advance, “Karas, who voiced his disapproval of Wolverine’s project on many levels, said he receives funding for his efforts from the Energy Foundation, based in San Francisco, California. According to its website, the goal of the Energy Foundation is ‘to develop and promote U.S. state and regional policies to reduce global warming pollution in order to build models for, and momentum toward federal global warming policy.’ ‘They want me to do public education, ‘ Karas said.
The Energy Foundation funds 501(c)(3)s to which Karas would have to apply and receive funding for a certain project under a different name.
501 (c)(3) organizations include charitable, religious and educational groups. They pay no taxes on income, and contributions are tax deductible for donors. This is the only category of tax-exempt organizations with this fundraising advantage. One of the conditions for this favorable treatment is that these groups strictly prohibited from supporting or opposing candidates for public office. However, they are allowed to engage in a limited amount of legislative lobbying.
This funding would not show on his individual tax return. I believe his “project” is to kill the Wolverine Clean Energy Venture. The name used could be Co-op Conversations.
I do not “whine” in public, Tom. I see you as a self-serving egotist who stands in the way of my children’s future.
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