Does John Kerry have an ear for green concerns?

[T_i_B]

No contest according to Polly Ghazi in the UK Guardian.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1155740,00.html

John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, beats George Bush hands down when it comes to the environment. Kerry's voting record during a 20-year Senate career has received an A+ rating from The League of Conservation Voters (LCV). He has led efforts to block oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, supports legislative action on climate change, and presents energy conservation and clean technologies as a key part of his campaign platform. He even met his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry at the 1992 Earth summit.

Bush, in contrast, has repealed several hundred laws and regulations protecting clean air, water, wilderness, national parks and wetlands, and walked away from the Kyoto agreement on climate change.

With Kerry and other Democratic candidates denouncing Bush's green record on the campaign trail, there are signs that the White House is worried about his vulnerability on the issue. The administration recently abandoned its controversial efforts to slash by a third the number of streams and wetlands protected from development. And while the proposed 2005 federal budget includes $1.9bn (£1bn) worth of cuts in environmental programmes, it pointedly includes new money to help clean up contaminated land in the industrial swing states of Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Kerry presses home this advantage, frequently touting his green voting record and chastising the president on the campaign trail as leading "the worst environmental administration I've ever seen". Where Bush presents the environment as a special interest concern that costs jobs, Kerry links his plan for a mandatory industry target of 20% renewable electricity generation by 2020 as a means to save energy while creating jobs and decreasing America's dependence on foreign oil.

[molly]

1. Teresa and family too

I live 20 minutes from the Philly airport. On my way to the airport, I drive by the Heinz wildlife reserve. Puts a tear in my eye.

[WitchWay]

2. And Kerry also

brings tears to the eyes of peasants in columbia.

Kerry supported Plan Columbia, part of the war on the drugs, when he was trying to become Gore's VP candidate.

I'm sure all the chemicals sprayed during the drug wars (Plan Columbia) sure put tears in a lot of peoples eyes, too.
And toxins all over their crops as well. And in their food supplies, and into their children's bodies, and the rainforest ecosystems and groundwater.


http://www.counterpunch.org/donahue01262004.html
http://www.mennonitechurch.ca/programs/peace/colombia/
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,508149,00.html
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,508149,00.html

[molly]

3. Awww

"If you wish to contribute to the defeat of the Democratic candidate for president, then you are welcome to use someone else's bandwidth on some other website."

[WitchWay]

4. Not so fast , John Kerry Supporter!

Kerry is not yet the Democratic nominee. Kerry is responsible for his actions in congress, including his support of Plan Columbia and its consequences.

This is why I am providing this information.

Anyone who still wishes to ignore this important information and support Kerry can do so to the detriment of the eventual ticket.

[molly]

6. Do any of these fit?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=396161&mesg_id=396457

[Forkboy]

5. awwwwwwwwww yourself

I would also like to point out that despite the widespread and rampant rumors to the contrary, "criticism" of the nominee is not outlawed. We are not going to be banning people who speak badly about the nominee. We are forbidding partisan attacks and organizing against the nominee, and hopefully we won't have to ban anyone to enforce that, but who knows... but let's try and not make the rules out to be something they're not, they even state:

"Constructive criticism and even outright disappointment with the candidate may be expressed, but partisan negative attacks will not be welcome."

Elad