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'Green-washing' Representative Musgrave just another new trick
Brian Park
Issue date: 9/6/07 Section: Opinion
Rep. Marilyn Musgrave needs to wipe the green paint off her face.
The chances of the Congresswoman becoming pro-environment or pro-alternative energy are about the same as Tom Tancredo sharing a Tecate with an illegal immigrant.
It's not going to happen.
Musgrave is trying to 'green-wash' her image, positioning her policies as environmentally friendly when in fact they're not.
I write this because last Thursday my opinion page colleague Nick Hemenway wrote an article entitled "Talking energy with Congresswoman Musgrave."
The column continues the media drumbeat of late that is trying to show Marilyn as a new politician, a consensus builder and a bi-partisan team player, which is a load of Ram excrement.
Regardless of her talk about energy, Iraq or the Pinon Canyon debate, our representative in D.C. is not changing at all.
Musgrave boasts of the potential for wind energy and corn-based ethanol in the article, which is hard to take seriously from a politician who took $65,512 from the oil and gas industry in the last election cycle according to the Center for Responsible Politics, a nonpartisan political research group.
Now she praises these up-and-coming forms of energy (which I admit have their upsides and downsides), but is she going to stop accepting oil and gas money to fuel her next re-election campaign, especially when she has been labeled a "vulnerable" incumbent?
Response: an emphatic, No!
Now Republicans and Democrats both accept funds from the oil and gas industry, but Democrats do so on a much smaller scale. When Republicans for Environmental Protection gives you a score of 17 and -4 out of 100 for the last two Congressional sessions, something is not adding up. But hey, at least it's not her lifetime rating from the League of Conservation Voters - an impeccable 3 out of 100.
Musgrave toured around the state all summer trying to show she is of the people by pumping gas for Fort Collins customers and that she's also bridging the partisan gap by appearing at Democratic Party Headquarters in Denver. (Shovel more aforementioned Ram-crap).
The chances of the Congresswoman becoming pro-environment or pro-alternative energy are about the same as Tom Tancredo sharing a Tecate with an illegal immigrant.
It's not going to happen.
Musgrave is trying to 'green-wash' her image, positioning her policies as environmentally friendly when in fact they're not.
I write this because last Thursday my opinion page colleague Nick Hemenway wrote an article entitled "Talking energy with Congresswoman Musgrave."
The column continues the media drumbeat of late that is trying to show Marilyn as a new politician, a consensus builder and a bi-partisan team player, which is a load of Ram excrement.
Regardless of her talk about energy, Iraq or the Pinon Canyon debate, our representative in D.C. is not changing at all.
Musgrave boasts of the potential for wind energy and corn-based ethanol in the article, which is hard to take seriously from a politician who took $65,512 from the oil and gas industry in the last election cycle according to the Center for Responsible Politics, a nonpartisan political research group.
Now she praises these up-and-coming forms of energy (which I admit have their upsides and downsides), but is she going to stop accepting oil and gas money to fuel her next re-election campaign, especially when she has been labeled a "vulnerable" incumbent?
Response: an emphatic, No!
Now Republicans and Democrats both accept funds from the oil and gas industry, but Democrats do so on a much smaller scale. When Republicans for Environmental Protection gives you a score of 17 and -4 out of 100 for the last two Congressional sessions, something is not adding up. But hey, at least it's not her lifetime rating from the League of Conservation Voters - an impeccable 3 out of 100.
Musgrave toured around the state all summer trying to show she is of the people by pumping gas for Fort Collins customers and that she's also bridging the partisan gap by appearing at Democratic Party Headquarters in Denver. (Shovel more aforementioned Ram-crap).
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posted 9/06/07 @ 3:52 PM MST
Great article and well-written Mr. Park, except for the fact that just like every other left-leaner, you have wholeheartedly discounted any effort by someone as wholesome as Mrs. (Continued…)
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