8 thoughts on “Bennet Votes For CO’s Public Health; Gardner Supports Polluters”

1. We can't have the Clean Power Plan because it is part of the war on coal…….  But perhaps, could it be that natural gas is cheaper and cleaner, thus putting market pressure on dirty coal, and taking market share away from coal?

   I'm amused at some of my fellow Republicans who really want to ignore the free market at work as they try to find a scapegoat for coal's slow demise. 

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   1. Surprised? Still? Again? Just "some", perhaps a few here and there, of your fellow Republicans? Have you recently awakened from a lengthy coma?

      Apparently Zap hasn't seen this yet. I'm sure he'll probably want to set ConservationColorado straight on assuming anything but bwahaha evil motives from Bennet.

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      1. Just realized I haven't seen anything from Zap lately. Hope the old Bennet hating zealot is OK.

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   2. I am declaring war on referring  using the War On Whatever to  promote your partisan views. Join me in my fight!

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2. Uhm, no.  It won't.  Just another damn lie from the 'War on Rural Colorado' cabal…

   Sonnenberg: Carbon tax would have devastating effect on Colorado

   This, from a man whose district benefits almost entirely from the more than $6 billion in wind farms dotted across the eastern plains. Those installs were a direct result of mandates passed by Democratically-controlled House and Senate – all measure the Republican caucus vehemently opposed. 

   Remember their absurd 'War on Rural Colorado'? Go back 10 years and look at their shrill rhetoric over Amendment 37. Not a single word of their deceptive narrative was (or became) remotely true. 

   Jerry, coal is dead. We are a state drowning in green energy resources – resources that, when put to beneficial use, not only create thousands of new jobs – but an entirely new tax base (mostly) in your/my senate district. The reality is that even conservative strong-holds like Colorado Springs are giving up their coveted downtown coal plant. Clinging to dinosaur dung as a fuel source potentially bankrupted Lamar. 

   As for agriculture, why should producers be precluded from participating in such a market? Agriculture producers have countless ways to benefit from a carbon-constrained market place. Why would you fight against the creation of such a marketplace for your constituents? 

   The math really isn't that hard.

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   1. Sonnenberg seems to be gearing up for something – a run for higher office? He made a "listening tour" of NE Colorado schools, during which teachers  and students gave him double earfuls about how underfunding hurts education.

      Sonnenberg's predictable response: get rid of Common Core and PARCC testing.

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      1. I wouldn't be surprised. He's been a good soldier for the coal lobby-CREA-Tri-State-fake-WaronRuralColorado-cabal. He's hard not to like and a significant improvement to my previous senate representative.

         He'd be a much better fit for CD-4 than the current occupant (that Gardner coronation was unfortunate).  

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3. Credit where due – these were a couple of good votes,rightly celebrated by Conservation Colorado. Perhaps praise will work better than censure at keeping  Bennet on the clean and green side.His record on environmental issues was decent, until his baffling reversal on Keystone.

   And now, a chorus of "Just Like Obama, Mama" by the Blue Cat, inna one, anna two, anna…..

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