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hatrack

(59,442 posts)
Sun Apr 14, 2019, 09:17 AM Apr 2019

Cory Gardner (R-CO) Plans To Run On Environment; Bold Actions Include TV Spot Showing Windmills



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Since his election, he's presented himself as a supporter of renewable energy including wind, which is a major industry in Colorado, and for protecting federal lands. He shot a campaign advertisement at a wind farm and promised he'd be the state's best champion for the industry.

Gardner has supported extending and phasing out the federal tax credit for wind energy — after first voting against a nonbinding measure that would have extended it for five years — and fought for a major federal lands protection package in December, including angrily confronting Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) on the Senate floor, declaring he was "pretty darn upset" after the Utah lawmaker blocked it from quick passage.

Despite representing a moderate state where numerous Democrats flipped GOP seats in last year's midterm election, Gardner has aligned himself with the Trump administration in many instances, including supporting administration and judicial nominees and coming out in support of Trump's re-election. "He essentially wrapped himself around Donald Trump, and Donald Trump isn't very popular here," said Robert Duffy, a political science professor at Colorado State University. "I don't see signs of Democratic enthusiasm or hatred of Trump dissipating enough to help Cory Gardner," he said. "But November 2020 is a ways away, so things can always change."

As a sign of Gardner's status in the state, The Denver Post apologized last month for its 2014 endorsement of him against Udall, declaring it a "mistake." Gardner makes no apologies about his support for oil and gas, for Bernhardt, or for many of Trump's energy policies, including his aggressive rollbacks of environmental policies.

Taking a page from Trump and other national Republicans, Gardner is framing energy in the campaign as a battle between socialism and jobs. Many of his Democratic opponents support the Green New Deal, and he's an outspoken opponent of it. "What the left wants to do is, through socialism, destroy jobs and the economy. They want to, in 10 years, put every single worker in the oil and gas fields out of work. They believe it is their place to decide there's a better job for them," he told E&E News.

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Cory Gardner (R-CO) Plans To Run On Environment; Bold Actions Include TV Spot Showing Windmills (Original Post) hatrack Apr 2019 OP
I thought windmills caused cancer? Iliyah Apr 2019 #1
He tried (& obviously succeeded) doing a similar con last time on his RW anti-women's rights hlthe2b Apr 2019 #2

hlthe2b

(101,730 posts)
2. He tried (& obviously succeeded) doing a similar con last time on his RW anti-women's rights
Sun Apr 14, 2019, 10:22 AM
Apr 2019

positions--not only including on abortion... One has to believe Coloradoans are not going to be suckered again.

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