To Hutchison, "Environmentalist" Means Someone Who Doesn't Believe in Global Warming
Someone get King County Executive candidate Susan Hutchison a dictionary. Because, apparently, she has no idea what's meant by the word environmentalist.
A week after finding out that she actually does support something like Tim Eyman's I-1033, we're now learning, thanks to the ever-muckracking Dow Constantine campaign, that Hutchison truly has a gift for the half-truth. Yesterday the Seattle Times editorialized in Constantine's favor as an advocate for the environment. To which Hutchison responded:
Hutchison says she's not uninterested [in environmental issues]; as executive director of the Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences, she has steered money to environmental causes.
And what causes are those? Glad you asked.
Hutchison's Simonyi Fund has donated more than $100,000 to conservative think-tank the Washington Policy Center. Specifically earmarking some of it to go towards the group's Center for the Environment. In the grand tradition of No Child Left Behind and the Patriot Act (and really, any legislative act of the past century), the Center for the Environment's name is a convenient bit of misdirection. Meant to distract from the fact that this is a group seriously interested in fucking up the environment for a long time.
As you can see from the website, the most visible piece of promotion is for the "most controversial film of the year," Not Evil Just Wrong -- The True Cost of Global Warming Hysteria. Added to that are Op-Eds about the dangers of green jobs and cap-and-trade. and Seattle's "solar agenda."
So, to review, Hutchison stakes her environmentalist bona fides on the strength of financial support to a group of solar-power-opposing global warming denialists. The same breed that thinks Dan Brown writes nonfiction. Why, she's the second-coming of Rachel Carson, I tells ya!
4 comment(s)
Earl_E says:
You have to understand that our elected officials are bought and paid for by corporate America.
We The People, have no power.
It is all about how to get re-elected with tons of perks and prizes, trips and outings.
She is just another primate looking to pad the cave walls with art and blankets, you can't fault her for being just another animal.
Posted On: Tuesday, Oct. 13 2009 @ 9:54AM
Ilya Stavinsky says:
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Posted On: Tuesday, Oct. 13 2009 @ 10:57AM
bluecollarbytes says:
Evidently, Caleb Hannan's definition of 'environmentalist' is anyone who swallows whatever the Leftist environ-mentalists shovel. There is but 1 single correct view on global warming theories, but keep an open mind because those leading you around by the nose 'tune' the theories as needed to achieve their political ends. You are already behind the times. It's now called 'Climate Change', which accounts somehow for the fact we're getting cooler in the midst of 'Climate Warming'. 'Professing themselves to be wise, they became foolish'. It's never fit better than today.
Posted On: Wednesday, Oct. 14 2009 @ 4:46AM
Bill Jenkins says:
Why on earth would someone from Seattle have a "solar power agenda"? If you install solar panels in Seattle, you should be mocked as stupid.
Environmentalists aren't the sharpest tools in the shed, though.
Posted On: Wednesday, Oct. 14 2009 @ 11:32AM