January 30, 2011 07:40 PM UTC

Senator Steve King's approach to the thought of others

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• by: cuppajoe

I received a communication from a friend in Senate District 7, which recently elected Steve King.  For some reason, I get the message that King doesn’t care about the views of some of his constituents, that he is marching to the tune of only the right wing, drill baby drill crowd.

I have received your “blast email” explaining the groups position on

Colorado Energy.  I will be supporting both pieces of legislation in

order to bring our state to a more well rounded and cost effective

energy policy for those citizens on fixed income and the poor.

I am concerned with your groups use of “blast email” in order to

disrupt this office’s ability to communicate with the other

constituents of Senate District 7.  If your group continues to use

this form of divisive and lazy communication I will be required to

block your email.  If you would like to talk about this communication

issue further please call my office at 1-303-866-3077

Senator Steven A. King

That’s it folks.  Who in King’s camp ‘requires’ him to block the e-mail from this constituent? What is divisive and/or lazy about this communication>?

Here is the original communication:

Jan 27, 2011

Senator Steven King

Colorado State Capitol

200 East Colfax

Denver, CO 80203

Dear Senator King,

As you may know, the Senate will soon consider two bills, SB 58 and SB

71, that would turn back the clock on clean energy. Please vote no on

both bills.

SB 58, sponsored by Sen. Scott Renfroe, would severely limit the

authority of the Public Utilities Commission to promote clean power

generation. It would force the PUC to abandon broader considerations of

the economic and environmental benefits of clean energy in favor of a

narrow and short-sighted focus on immediate fuel costs.

SB 71, sponsored by Sen. Shawn Mitchell, would scale back our 30% by

2020 renewable energy standard, dropping it to 10%. It would reverse

course on the progress we’ve made since 2007 and derail Colorado’s

cutting-edge role in developing renewable energy.

As President Obama just told the nation, to win our future, we must

invest in technologies like wind and solar generation, not revert to

the misguided complacency of the past. We must continue to promote

investment in renewables and enlarge the field of clean energy jobs.

Let’s embrace the future, keep pushing forward, and say no those who

would turn back the clock. Please vote no on SB 58 and SB 71.