Rocky pushes green crusade

[Sean Reynolds]

Rocky pushes green crusade

He predicts SLC will meet goal set by Kyoto Protocol

SNIP:

Attending a conference in Argentina this week, Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson wore his beliefs around his neck with a lanyard that read: "Yes to Kyoto. No to Bush."
Under the Democratic mayor, Salt Lake City said "yes" in 2002 to the international agreement to cut carbon-dioxide emissions that President Bush rejected because, the White House said, it would harm the economy.
On Thursday, a day after returning from the U.N. climate conference in Buenos Aires, Anderson said local governments have an important role in protecting the environment, especially in the face of Bush's "irresponsible" policy.

SNIP:

Saying global warming is "perhaps the most important problem facing our world," Anderson says he now wants to turn his attention to recruiting individuals and more businesses to cut down their use of gasoline-powered vehicles and reduce their reliance on energy produced from coal-burning plants - two main producers of carbon dioxide.
Remember the 1971 "Keep America Beautiful" commercial in which a tear trickles down the face of Iron Eyes Cody as he looks at a litter-strewn highway? It shamed many Americans into properly canning their trash. And the mayor wants residents to feel just as embarrassed - if not more so - when they gas up their SUVs.
Like the mayor says he feels every time he slides into his Suburban.
He says he occasionally uses his SUV in the winter when his natural-gas-powered Honda Civic can't handle the snow.
"I don't think we're going to see the kind of progress that we need if there's not a better public-relations strategy in place to create the personal and business ethic that will motivate people to do the right thing," Anderson said.

http://sltrib.com/utah/ci_2490333

Good read.

[bushisanidiot]

1. The mayor of SLC is a democrat??

that's good news. Glad to hear there is some progress in Utah. :)

[quaoar]

2. Any chance Rocky might run for the Senate

if Orrin Hatch retires?

[Sean Reynolds]

3. No...he'd never win.

Outside of Salt Lake City Rocky Anderson is pretty much hated. He'd lose in a landslide.

[quaoar]

4. But isn't most of the population in Salt Lake?

Anyone else stand a chance if the seat came open?

[Sean Reynolds]

5. About 1 million of the 2.5 million lives within the Salt Lake Valley.

However outside of Salt Lake City (179,000) the county is pretty conservative.

If the seat came open, it could be won by a Democrat, but it'd have to be a moderate Democrat known by Utah voters (Matheson).