As Exxon pointed out, Joe Manchin is "our kingmaker."

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ExxonMobil Lobbyist Reveals Joe Manchin 'Kingmaker' Among 11 Senators Targeted

senior lobbyist for ExxonMobil has claimed the oil giant is secretly fighting legislative attempts to tackle climate change—and identified Democratic Senator Joe Manchin as one of the lawmakers targeted in the campaign.

Lobbyist Keith McCoy's remarks were covertly recorded by Greenpeace UK's investigative platform Unearthed and shared with British news program Channel 4 News.

Greenpeace UK's reporters had posed as headhunters seeking to hire a Washington lobbyist for a client and approached McCoy, who agreed to speak via Zoom.

During the call, recorded last month, McCoy alleged that ExxonMobil had used third-party organizations to fight legislative action on climate change, despite publicly claiming to be working to tackle the issue.

Along with Manchin, McCoy named 10 other senators he described as "crucial" to ExxonMobil's efforts. Five are Republicans—John Barrasso, John Cornyn, Steve Daines, Shelley Moore Capito and Marco Rubio. Five are Democrats—Chris Coons, Maggie Hassan, Mark Kelly, Kyrsten Sinema and Jon Tester.

https://www.newsweek.com/exxonmobil...r-11-senators-targeted-climate-change-1605865

 

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U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin came under fire Saturday after The Washington Post reported that the West Virginia Democrat "does not currently support" passing even his own recent $1.8 trillion counteroffer to President Joe Biden's Build Back Better agenda.

 

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ExxonMobil Lobbyist Reveals Joe Manchin 'Kingmaker' Among 11 Senators Targeted

senior lobbyist for ExxonMobil has claimed the oil giant is secretly fighting legislative attempts to tackle climate change—and identified Democratic Senator Joe Manchin as one of the lawmakers targeted in the campaign.

Lobbyist Keith McCoy's remarks were covertly recorded by Greenpeace UK's investigative platform Unearthed and shared with British news program Channel 4 News.

Greenpeace UK's reporters had posed as headhunters seeking to hire a Washington lobbyist for a client and approached McCoy, who agreed to speak via Zoom.

During the call, recorded last month, McCoy alleged that ExxonMobil had used third-party organizations to fight legislative action on climate change, despite publicly claiming to be working to tackle the issue.

Along with Manchin, McCoy named 10 other senators he described as "crucial" to ExxonMobil's efforts. Five are Republicans—John Barrasso, John Cornyn, Steve Daines, Shelley Moore Capito and Marco Rubio. Five are Democrats—Chris Coons, Maggie Hassan, Mark Kelly, Kyrsten Sinema and Jon Tester.

https://www.newsweek.com/exxonmobil...r-11-senators-targeted-climate-change-1605865

I am pretty sure I heard that ExxonMobil is now run by an activist board that is working to comply with dictates from on High to get out of the oil business and into so called clean energy.

You might want to launch an investigation.