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Published Friday, Oct. 15, 2010 | 12:17 p.m.
Updated Friday, Oct. 15, 2010 | 12:20 p.m.
The League of Conservation Voters Victory Fund, which works to elect candidates who promote environmental policies, launched a $200,000 ad buy in Nevada's 3rd Congressional District today on behalf of Democratic incumbent Dina Titus.
The ad depicts Republican challenger Joe Heck as opposed to clean energy jobs.
As evidence, it cites Heck's support of a "No Climate Tax" pledge circulated by Americans for Prosperity, which advocates for free markets and limited government.
"Heck would prefer to stifle Nevada's cutting-edge clean energy economy rather than promote policies that would create jobs and increase investments in the state's already profitable renewable industries," said Tony Massaro, the Victory Fund's senior vice president for political affairs.
The Heck campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
You guys are free to publish what you want, but we all see (or rather, fast-forward through) plenty of political ads and we all know they're 90% distortion and 10% outright falsehood. Do we really need to read an article about every new ad that some soft money PAC churns out?
Conservatives LOVE to denigrate "Green Jobs"...
"It's just make-work; all this 'green' junk is a by-product of AlGore's Global Warming Hoax! We'll
lose money on all this green garbage. Who NEEDS a clean planet, for crying out loud?"
The Conservatives LOVE to rip on President Obama for his "out of control spending", regardless that it's being spent (wisely) to repair damage done by their own party, and complain incessantly that "our poor, poor Grandkiddies will be sodden with the debts of the great Socialist Obama." Yet, they don't give a rat's ass about the environmental damage their own party's policies would do to God's Green Earth... because, I guess, it's better for their poor, poor Grandkiddies to have lots of money and live
on a stinking, polluted Planet Earth.
So Mr. Heck feels that any business venture that is solid, has a profitable market for its product or service should be able to grow succeed in a free market without "government policy" ???
Where did he get such a stupid idea as that??? Could it have been from a Business 101 class that is taught anywhere and everywhere in this country maybe???
IF a business or industry can NOT exist and be profitable WITHOUT government assistance and subsidies, that business or industry is a failure from the start !!!
Mr. Heck's belief in Free Markets proves he supports green jobs, or blue jobs or any color jobs, as long as the marketplace is there and supports the end result of those jobs as well.
great, another damn ad
This election, whether in Connecticut, Kentucky or Nevada is about just a very few base concepts. You either want to vote for Slavery, Tyranny and Mass Murder or You want to vote for Freedom, Liberty and Constitutional Government. That is the choice. None other. The Progressive Party is the heir of the mass murdering left from 1916 till today. Are you a co conspirator to the lefts slaughter of the last hundred years? Have you no conscience? From Lenin and Berea to Stalin and Hitler, Mussolini and Moa. Ho Chi Min, and Idi Amin and The Senior Kim and his murdering son. To Pol Pot and The East Block Soviet Satellite Dictators to Castro and Che, they marched through the 20th Century and into the 21st Century, Murdering, Butchering Slaughtering, and enslaving. The left, whether named Democrat, Liberal or Progressive is the same stench. Yes, there are many more unnamed. They are not unnamed in the same way that the 200 million they murdered are, however. Take your choice. I know who I stand with. They signed the Constitution..
Wow fumiko please put down the remote, Glenn Beck has taken over your brain!
Why is it that the Crazy Right always envokes the "poor children who will inherit a large deficit" when they really could care less about anything but themselves?
Seriously, they want to destroy our environment, health care, and education, but use kids every single chance they get.. Wow, even my 10 year old can see through this sham!
Ms. Titus' claim is just another political stretching of the sort "he wouldn't go from A to B therefore he is somehow against Z." We've had too much of that nonsense already.
As to "Business 101" and religiously-held beliefs contrary to fact. Let's look at Exhibit A, Las Vegas:
What percentage of business is done with people who use airlines? And who subsidized the development of airlines, aircraft, and airports? (Answer: the Federal Government?) And who still subsidizes air traffic through the (government-run) Air Traffic Control System? (Answer: the Federal Government). What percentage of our business is done with people who use highways? And, who designs, builds, and finances those? (Answer: the Federal Government, both directly and indirectly through State governments). Having 100% of customers come and go via government subsidized means should not be an eye-opener for adherents of the Religion of Business 101 because Las Vegas' business depends on those subsidized means of transportation.
What percentage of our freight moves via air and highway? (Both subsidized.) What percentage of our freight moves by private railroads? And who subsidized the building of those railroads now run by successful private businesses? (Answer: the Federal Government)
Private business is both desirable and useful, but we should not make ourselves willfully stupid during our Biennial Silly Seasons to the point of denying the value of -- and sometimes even the necessity for -- government encouragement in proper cases.
I think 99% of the voters are aginst a "Climate Tax", a.k.a. cap & trade that would add a thousand or two to their energy bills. You know, the one Dina Titus voted yes on and supports in the House.
Also, once people see their electric bills go up if "smart meters? are installed. And, that Green Energy that costs 4 times as much must be 25% of energy sources by law in the near future.
Sure, I'm all for finding "alternative" energy sources over time and by the Private Sector with NO TAXPAYERS MONEY included in the research dollars. Just like Thomas Edison did it. But, it has to be reasonably priced not 4 times the price when it comes to market.
And, now we all know that Climate Change, a.k.a. Global Warming, was a big lie created with "cooked research", just liked Enron's "cooked books".
Can I ask one question here. It seems that the "League of Conservation Voters Victory Fund" supports Dina Titus. During her campaign against Jon Porter last time Ms. Titus' big slogan was Jon Porter was a "rubber stamp" of George Bush's policies. I must ask, WHAT THEN IS DINA TITUS? Is she not a 'RUBBER STAMP" of not only Barack Hussien Obama, but also of Nasty Nancy Pelosi and Dirty Harry Reid? She has voted duplicately with all of them. Whatever they wanted, NO MATTER HOW MUCH MONEY IT WAS, she voted yes, yes, yes. She duplicated their votes and desires. She even voyed herself a pay raise the last 2 years, but also votes NO (or did not support) for an increase in social security recipient increase in benefits in 2010 & 2011 and voting YES (supporting) an INCREASE in medicare premiums for those same people for 2010 & 2011. Do you know how many seniors live in the state of Nevada? Obviously Ms. Titus does NOT.
IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO VOTE TITUS BACK IN TO RAISE OUR FEDERAL TAXES HIGHER, AND HIGHER, AND HIGHER.