The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is one of the most powerful right-wing lobbying groups in Washington. They're spending over $300,000 a day to kill health reform, clean energy, financial reform—you name it.1
But now the Chamber has a big problem. A reporter recently discovered that they've been lying about how many members they have. For years, under Chamber CEO Tom Donohue, they've falsely claimed to have three million members, when the real number is closer to 200,000.2
When they exaggerate their membership, it exaggerates their power. So let's set the record straight. Everywhere we see the Chamber repeat the "3 million member" lie, we're going to call them out—starting with their Facebook page.
Go to the U.S. Chamber's Facebook page today and post a comment on their wall like this: "Stop lying about your members. The Chamber doesn't represent anywhere near 3 million businesses." Click here to post your comment:
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=85043&id=17752-1165144-Hg4BdCx&t=1
To post a comment on the Chamber page, you first have to click "Become a fan" near the top of the page. Then, just type your comment into the box that says "Write something..." and click "Share." If you want, you can "un-fan" the Chamber immediately by clicking "Remove me from Fans" (towards the bottom of the left column, under the photos box).
The amazing thing about this controversy is that, after getting called on it, the Chamber admitted that the three million number is totally false.3
But that hasn't stopped Donohue from repeating the made-up number in press releases, on the official Chamber website, and even on their Facebook page.4
A lot of the Chamber's power comes from the false perception that they represent so many businesses. But in fact, they represent no more than about 1 percent of all businesses in America.5 This isn't a small, meaningless lie—it's a big, important lie that needs to be corrected.
Click here to post your comment:
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=85043&id=17752-1165144-Hg4BdCx&t=2
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Comments: 23
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is NOT a department of the government!
But I'll have to send them a thank you note for opposing government run health care.
When people learn how these people do business and what they are trying to implement, citizens want it less and less. The only hope that the Obama/Pelosi/Reid cabal have is to use subterfuge, confusion, and fatigue to pass their kaka plan. They can't (and won't) use reason, logic, or sound judgment. Pelosi said the other day that Health Care WON'T be paid for using taxpayer monies. Where does she think the money comes from .... trees?.....Obama Money (like the ladies in Detroit think)?.....where?
Regardless of how many people the chamber represents, their arguments about the Obama Care remain valid. Don't address any of those concerns, just yap about their supposed inflated membership. Which, by the way, would somehow be different from when the President dressing up some doctors in the Rose Garden and claiming that they represent nearly all physicians?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/15/AR2009101504000.html?hpid=news-col-blog
The truth will out!