Oregon Democrats, you guys are having a blast!
Remember Art Robinson?
This guy?
Made a total ass of himself on Rachel Maddow's show?
Well, he's the new head of the GOP in Oregon.
Oregon Democrats are rolling on the ground laughing.
A Missed Introduction To Oregon's Extreme New Republican Chairman
Former Congressional Candidate Has Espoused Fringe Views On Evolution, AIDS, Race
It's hard to do justice to the extreme views of the new chairman for Oregon's Republican party. But reports on Art Robinson often didn't even come close, merely mentioning that he is a "skeptic of human-caused global warming," while leaving out the chairman's anti-scientific statements on evolution, AIDS, and nuclear waste.
Robinson is best known for organizing a petition rejecting climate change that claims to have 31,072 American scientist signatories, with "scientist" defined as anyone who claims to have a bachelor's degree in various fields including computer science, statistics, and metallurgy. Robinson, who is a chemist but has not done any scientific research into climate change, has acknowledged that fake names such as the Spice Girl's Geri Halliwell made it onto the list. The petition says little to rebut the consensus of the vast majority of scientists, as it does not state what percentage of people responded to the survey. Robinson told the conspiracy website WND.com in 2002 that ""[t]here is absolutely not a shred of evidence that humans are causing any change in the climate by generating CO2."
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/08/13/a-missed-introduction-to-oregons-extreme-new-re/195370