Sierra Club calls for Perry to resign over sexual assault comments

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY DEVIN HENRY - 11/02/17 01:50 PM EDT

The Sierra Club said Energy Secretary Rick Perry should resign over his Thursday statement that fossil fuels can help prevent sexual assault.

"It was already clear that Rick Perry is unfit to lead the Department of Energy, but to suggest that fossil fuel development will decrease sexual assault is not only blatantly untrue, it is an inexcusable attempt to minimize a serious and pervasive issue,” Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune said in a statement.

“He does not deserve to hold office another day with these twisted ideas, and he should resign from his position immediately before he causes any more damage."

At an event on Thursday morning, Perry said fossil fuels will be important for electrifying parts of Africa and that the expansion of energy there can help reduce sexual assaults. “When the lights are on, you have light that shines, the righteousness, if you will, on these types of acts,” he said.



Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/358460-sierra-club-calls-for-perry-to-resign-over-sexual-assault-comments

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Rick Perry suggests fossil fuels help prevent sexual assault
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[CurtEastPoint]

1. "righteousness?" WTF, preacher boy?

[thegoose]

2. Another Dump placement, dumb as a stump

Surprise, surprise.

[Gothmog]

3. Governor Goodhair is too stupid for this job

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Preceded by Obama's picks: Moniz an MIT physicist and Chu a Nobel Prize physicist. . . nt

[Ray Bruns]

4. Oh Look, Rick Perry said something stupid -

This must be a day whose name ends in a y.

[Alice11111]

5. !!! We have much more important things to deal with than that comment,

said as a Sierra Club member.

[Paladin]

6. Perry's obviously never been around an oil and gas boomtown.

Let him check in with law enforcement personnel in areas like South Texas, or mega-production regions of North Dakota, or anywhere in or around Nairobi, to see whether sexual assault rates have gone up or down---given the presence of a large, poorly-vetted, itinerant workforce. Stupid sonovabitch.

[louis-t]

7. He forgot his smart glasses today, apparently.

[DFW]

9. And if not over that.........

How about he just resign because he's incompetent and stupid and totally unfit for the job?

I mean Perry, in this case, not the clown who nominated him, even though the same applies.