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RockaFowler

(7,429 posts)
Thu Mar 10, 2016, 07:33 AM Mar 2016

Here Is the First Explicit Question on Climate Change of the Primary Season

Tonight’s Democratic debate featured the first explicit question on climate change (from a moderator) of the primary season, despite the fact that last year was the warmest in the United States on record. This winter has also been the warmest on record.

The question came at the behest of 21 Florida mayors, both Democratic and Republican, who wrote a letter to the hosts of both parties’ debates Florida debates.

“This is a critically important issue not just for the country but also for the world, but it isn’t even being debated,” one of the signatories, Mayor Jack Seiler of Fort Lauderdale, told the Guardian. “Some of the topics raised in the debates are ridiculous—the personal attacks go back and forth for 20 minutes—but when you try to talk about about rising sea levels, it’s almost as if it’s too much of a mature topic for them.

http://gawker.com/here-is-the-first-explicit-question-on-climate-change-o-1763953714

This is the real differences between the 2 parties. Democrats talk about actual issues and not the size of someone's hands or what someone is wearing.

This is why I will vote for any Democrat who wins the nomination. I'm looking at the big picture here. This is an important issue that only Democrats are talking about right now.

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Here Is the First Explicit Question on Climate Change of the Primary Season (Original Post) RockaFowler Mar 2016 OP
I'm looking at the big picture here. 48lowes Mar 2016 #1

48lowes

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1. I'm looking at the big picture here.
Thu Mar 10, 2016, 10:30 AM
Mar 2016

The possibility of appointing 3 or 4 more supreme court justices would be my #1 reason to vote democrat.
I haven't been keeping track but aren't there several justices over 80 and ready to retire?

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