League of Conservation Voters Dirty Dozen for 2010: Part 3--Three Toxic Tea Partiers

by Neon Vincent

Earlier this week, I profiled three candidates on the the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) Dirty Dozen list who are running for the House of Representatives.  Yesterday, I continued my series with Part 2--Four Filthy Senators.  Both of these diaries described the anti-environmental records of candidates who consistently vote (or promise to vote) against clean energy and natural resource conservation.

Join me over the fold for part 3, in which I profile the final three GOTeaP senate candidates on the LCV's list, all of whom put the Tea in GOTeaP.  I also include a first from the LCV--a propostion has been named to the list, making this a Dirty Baker's Dozen.  Most important of all, I include action items for their Democratic opponents and the No on 23 campaign.

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League of Conservation Voters Dirty Dozen for 2010: Part 2--Four Filthy Senators

by Neon Vincent

Earlier this week, I profiled three candidates on the the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) Dirty Dozen list who are running for the House of Representatives.  As I wrote then, "[t]hese candidates consistently vote (or promise to vote) against clean energy and natural resource conservation.

Join me over the fold for part 2, in which I profile the first four GOTeaP senate candidates on the LCV's list, along with action items for their Democratic opponents.

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League of Conservation Voters Dirty Dozen for 2010: Part 1--House of Representatives

by Neon Vincent

All of us Kossacks who have ever wanted to know the names of the most enviromentally unfriendly candidates running for national office are in luck.  Every election season, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) compiles a Dirty Dozen of candidates for Congress, both Senate and House of Representatives.  These candidates consistently vote (or promise to vote) against clean energy and natural resource conservation.  Election year 2010 is no exception.

This year, the LCV lists eleven GOTeaP candidates and office holders running for federal office.  They also list a bonus ballot measure.  It's such a big list that I'll have to break it up into three installments that I'll post during the week.

Join me over the fold for part one, where I feature three GOTeaP candidates and office holders running for election or re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives who are among the national LCV's Dirty Dozen for this year.

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Climate-Denier Carly Fiorina Courting Out-of-State Coal Companies

by TonyMassaro

Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina has aggressively campaigned this election on her opposition to comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation. Her campaign rhetoric has apparently attracted some unique donors; Fiorina has received about $63,000 in donations this year from Appalachian coal-mining interests. Much of the money has come from Robert Murray, CEO of Murray Energy in Ohio, who dismisses global warming as "hysterical global goofiness." Robert Murray has helped direct almost $25,000 to Fiorina’s science-denying campaign for Senate, including $10,000 from the company’s federal PAC and personal donations totaling $2,499.

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