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===2018 Nov 06 - [https://www.wsj.com/articles/state-ags-for-rent-1541549567 State AGs for Rent]===

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*"With the courts and Trump Administration rolling back federal climate regulation, green activists have turned to the states. But there’s a troubling ethical twist: Instead of merely lobbying, activists are placing employees in Attorneys General offices in dubious private-public condominiums.

Consider a remarkable arrangement brokered by the NYU Law School’s State Energy and Environmental Impact Center to fund legal services for state AGs. The group was launched in August 2017 to advance a liberal climate and energy agenda, courtesy of a $6 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies, which also financed the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign."

===2018 Oct 10 - [https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/10/09/bloomberg_funds_green_work_of_democrat_state_attorneys_offices.html How Bloomberg Embeds Green Warriors in Blue-State Governments]===

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*At a hearing in Richmond, Virginia on Tuesday — the third hearing in a (so far) two-and-a-quarter year saga to obtain records that previously did not exist but now magically do — the Office of the Virginia Attorney General was ordered to file an answer in a November 2018 VFOIA lawsuit by Government Accountability & Oversight board member Chris Horner and the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

*That suit requested records related to AG Mark Herring’s rather fevered, successful — and then suddenly dropped — pursuit of Michael Bloomberg-funded “Special Assistant Attorneys General” “to advance the agenda represented by” Bloomberg’s climate group.

==AG Wisconsin==

===2025 Oct 8 - [https://www.thefirebreak.org/p/can-mike-bloomberg-buy-the-american Can Mike Bloomberg Buy the American Legal System?]===

*"A group of Wisconsin dairy farmers may be all that stands between the rule of law and billionaire-branded attorneys general."

*"This isn’t just a niche legal spat—it’s a symptom of a larger erosion in democratic accountability. Across at least ten states, similar programs allow ideologically driven nonprofits to plant their attorneys inside public offices, flipping the traditional model where the state hires and oversees outside counsel. The Firebreak has previously documented multiple cases—in Oregon, Michigan and Hawaii—of private lawyers wielding state power to push their climate crusade through the courts."

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 ===2018 Nov 06 - [https://www.wsj.com/articles/state-ags-for-rent-1541549567 State AGs for Rent]===
 *Subscription site
+*[https://archive.ph/PkxCQ Alternative link]
+*"With the courts and Trump Administration rolling back federal climate regulation, green activists have turned to the states. But there’s a troubling ethical twist: Instead of merely lobbying, activists are placing employees in Attorneys General offices in dubious private-public condominiums.
+Consider a remarkable arrangement brokered by the NYU Law School’s State Energy and Environmental Impact Center to fund legal services for state AGs. The group was launched in August 2017 to advance a liberal climate and energy agenda, courtesy of a $6 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies, which also financed the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign."
 ===2018 Oct 10 - [https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/10/09/bloomberg_funds_green_work_of_democrat_state_attorneys_offices.html How Bloomberg Embeds Green Warriors in Blue-State Governments]===
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 *At a hearing in Richmond, Virginia on Tuesday — the third hearing in a (so far) two-and-a-quarter year saga to obtain records that previously did not exist but now magically do — the Office of the Virginia Attorney General was ordered to file an answer in a November 2018 VFOIA lawsuit by Government Accountability & Oversight board member Chris Horner and the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
 *That suit requested records related to AG Mark Herring’s rather fevered, successful — and then suddenly dropped — pursuit of Michael Bloomberg-funded “Special Assistant Attorneys General” “to advance the agenda represented by” Bloomberg’s climate group.
+==AG Wisconsin==
+===2025 Oct 8 - [https://www.thefirebreak.org/p/can-mike-bloomberg-buy-the-american Can Mike Bloomberg Buy the American Legal System?]===
+*"A group of Wisconsin dairy farmers may be all that stands between the rule of law and billionaire-branded attorneys general."
+*"This isn’t just a niche legal spat—it’s a symptom of a larger erosion in democratic accountability. Across at least ten states, similar programs allow ideologically driven nonprofits to plant their attorneys inside public offices, flipping the traditional model where the state hires and oversees outside counsel. The Firebreak has previously documented multiple cases—in Oregon, Michigan and Hawaii—of private lawyers wielding state power to push their climate crusade through the courts."
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