Big tobacco and the states are business partners
Competitive Enterprise Institute
by Sam Kazman
Disagreeing over policy is one thing, but not knowing who’s on what side is inexcusable. In a Sept. 27 news story, Colorado Senate President Joan Fitz-Gerald claimed that state Treasurer Mark Hillman’s criticism of the 1998 tobacco settlement put him on the side of big tobacco. The Sentinel questioned her logic in its editorial of Sept. 29 but it should have gone on to note that she was dead wrong on the facts. Big tobacco does not oppose the settlement...
http://www.cei.org/gencon/019,04878.cfm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Sam Kazman
Disagreeing over policy is one thing, but not knowing who’s on what side is inexcusable. In a Sept. 27 news story, Colorado Senate President Joan Fitz-Gerald claimed that state Treasurer Mark Hillman’s criticism of the 1998 tobacco settlement put him on the side of big tobacco. The Sentinel questioned her logic in its editorial of Sept. 29 but it should have gone on to note that she was dead wrong on the facts. Big tobacco does not oppose the settlement...
http://www.cei.org/gencon/019,04878.cfm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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