GQP Candidates In Ohio Vying For Trumpiest, Stupidest Positions On Climate Policy Possible

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Leading GOP candidates J.D. Vance, former Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel and former Ohio Republican Party Chair Jane Timken, as well as most of the other hopefuls, have been scornful of climate change activists and clean energy, while giving nods to clean air and clean water, mainly in line with the former president.

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Mandel had similar thoughts. “You’ve got these crazy lefties in Washington, like [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi [D-Calif.] and [Senate Majority Leader Chuck] Schumer [D-N.Y.], who are trying to empower the Chinese and empower the Indians and empower the Europeans so they can have natural resource development, but then they don’t want to do it in America,” he told Spectrum News last month. Asked if he believes in climate change, Mandel implied incorrectly that the climate is changing but humans have no role in it. “The climate’s been changing for millions of years,” he said. “And the left is trying to advance this argument that all of a sudden it’s due to factories in Ohio that employ tens of thousands of Ohio workers. It’s a bunch of garbage.”

Timken accused Democrats at an October forum of trying to eliminate fossil fuels. “What we have coming from the Democrats is their push for the Green New Deal. I call it the Trojan horse to socialism,” she said.

The race could be one of the most important nationally in next year’s midterm elections. Democrats believe they could flip the seat, which could be the key to keeping the majority in the Senate, which is currently tied 50 to 50 in party affiliations. Rep. Tim Ryan is the main Democratic candidate for the seat. The GOP primary, however, has become “a herculean effort on the Republican side for everyone to out-Trump each other,” said David Niven, a politics professor at the University of Cincinnati. “It’s not merely not having an active environmental agenda. It’s having contempt for anyone who does.” He added, “This is going to be a very intense, throw-meat-to-the-lions kind of primary. And that really is going to define everything in November.”

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https://www.eenews.net/articles/ohio-senate-hopefuls-look-to-out-trump-each-other-on-climate/

[snowybirdie]

1. If that tornado outbreak

was a little further north, these fools in Ohio would be eating their words.

[mopinko]

2. wonder if she is related to timken steel.

[pscot]

3. By marriage

Timken lives in Stark County, Ohio with her husband Ward J. "Tim" Timken Jr.,[11] the former chairman, CEO, and president of TimkenSteel. (Wikipedia)

[mopinko]

5. thank you.

the name always perks my ears up, cuz they f'ed my da over many moons ago.
he was supposed to get an hvac distributorship, but timken decided to sell the steel to the car companies instead. 50's.
yeah, irish grudges. it's a thing.

[rownesheck]

4. Green New Deal

is a Trojan horse to socialism? Ok. Apparently, according to the gop, EVERYTHING is now part of some plan to bring about socialism in this country.

Fuck these idiots, and fuck the people who vote for them.