Al Gore: How To Win In 2014: Make Climate Science the centerpiece of Democratic Party's campaign.

[kpete]

Rich donors press Democrats on climate change
By Juliet Eilperin

Senate majority leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, six other senators, and a 2014 Senate candidate took in views of the Golden Gate Bridge with former vice president Al Gore and some of the nation's richest environmentalist donors.

The $400,000 fund-raiser, held for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, included remarks from Gore, who said the party needs to make global warming a central issue during the midterms, participants said. And Gore called Steyer, who has vowed to raise at least $100 million, Mr. Tipping Point.

˜How do you inject this into the debate in a meaningful way? Steyer said in an interview during a visit to Washington, where he lobbied a gathering of Democratic governors. That changes what can happen in Washington, D.C.

With the end of President Obama's tenure now in sight, wealthy environmentalists are pushing Democrats to take bolder positions on climate change vowing to emphasize the issue in swing-state contests and threatening to withhold money from candidates who support the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

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http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2014/03/02/rich-donors-press-democrats-climate-change/hzqwCqUh4CPz5Voz3abiSL/story.html

[elehhhhna]

1. also, pretending to gaf about the 99% might help

[jwirr]

2. One of the main issues and connect it to jobs - building alternative energy sources and I do not

mean fossil fuel based alternatives.

[Chan790]

3. I like Al but he's wrong.

Winning 2014 is all about making it about economic justice, social welfare and jobs. It's the immortal words James Carville hung in Clinton's Little Rock Campaign HQ in 1992:

"The Economy, stupid!"

That's what people care about presently. That is what will get people out to vote in 2014, a cohesive message coast-to-coast for all Democrats that 2014 is about voting Republican obstruction to job-creation and social welfare and turning the economy around out of office. It's about the ascendancy of traditional (anti-DLC anti-RW) Democratic economic populism.

It of course means pissing off (some) Democrats' new rich friends but would you rather win or have friends?

[loyalsister]

4. I agree

People struggling to buy food to make lunches for their kids for the upcoming week are worried about the present.
A lot of people are living day to day or month to month. In comparison, the most disastrous effects of climate change feel like something in the distant future.