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PolitiFact: Claim of Scott Walker banning phrase climate change ‘false’
PolitiFact took a progressive group out to the woodshed today for creating a misleading website that says presidential hopeful Gov Scott Walker (R) has banned state employees from using the phrase ‘climate change.’ Forecast the Facts, a project of the liberal group Citizen Engagement Laboratory, says it developed the website called scottaway.com in response to the Walker administration’s denial of climate change. But PolitiFact took a closer look at that claim and found it to be without merit.
The “scottaway the truth” website, which allows users to click a giant red button that swaps out ‘climate change’ with words like ‘magic weather’ and ‘extended Popsicle season,’ stated that “Governors Rick Scott (FL) and Scott Walker (WI) both run state governments that ban employees from talking about climate change.” But when PolitiFact started snooping around, the site ‘magically’ swapped out its header to read (changes in bold): “Governors Rick Scott (FL) and Scott Walker (WI) both support state agencies that reportedly ban employees from talking about climate change.”
Source: http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/politifact-claim-of-scott-walker-banning-phrase-climate-change-false.html
