Greg Flynn has the raw story on Cornerstone Solutions, the evolution of a firm responsible for manufactured ‘grassroots’ campaigns not that different from our favorite, Renew Raleigh. Members of Cornerstone were apparently responsible for fake citizen groups in support of developing the everglades. Expect to see more stories on ‘astroturf’ in Raleigh in 2008.


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