Ben Marchi, state director of Americans for Prosperity, an anti-tax group that supports limited government and free trade, criticized Greenpeace for trying to halt necessary jobs coming to the region. “I don’t think folks in the Shenandoah Valley who can’t find a job to support their family really care what Greenpeace thinks,” Marchi said. “This plant will provide a paycheck to hardworking Virginians, put food on the table, and provide fiscal prosperity to the community and hundreds of families in the area. The only thing the plant hopefully won’t do is bow to Greenpeace’s lackluster efforts to shutter any and every plant in the nation.”

Americans for Prosperity – Virginia (AFP-VA) today congratulated Governor Bob McDonnell for attracting Mercury Paper to the Strasburg area and, in return, bringing more jobs and further economic prosperity to the Shenandoah Valley. In a statement from their director, AFP-VA said they deplore Greenpeace’s attempt to stifle economic growth in Virginia and the activist group’s effort to halt bringing new, necessary jobs to the region…