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  • Partisan Digging?

    Why is Grist digging way back to the 1980s to attack Senator McCain? This feels like the same kind of partisan campaign Sierra Club has launched against McCain since he became the presumptive GOP nominee.

    To be fair, one might also raise the fact that Senator Obama voted against an important amendment sponsored by Senators McCain and Feingold that would have allowed for independent review and prioritization of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers water projects.

    Senator McCain has a strong environmental record. You can find the details at http://www.rep.org/McCain_enviro_record.html

    Our goal should be to make protecting the environment "a cause beyond party and beyond factions." With Senator McCain being the GOP nominee, the environment has a chance to win regardless of who wins the White House. All of us should celebrate the position we find ourselves in. Unfortunately these attacks perpetuate the partisan atmosphere that has so often hurt our cause.

    David JenkinsOn Mr. Straight Talk voted against requiring double-hulled tankers after the biggest oil spill posted 1 year, 9 months ago 16 Responses

  • Attack on McCain is Shameful

    Missed votes due to campaign demands are in no way an indicator of Senator McCain's environmental positions or record. To imply that they are is deceitful.

    On many of the issues rated by the LCV scorecard, Senator McCain has made his position clear. In fact, LCV rated a vote on an amendment reforming the U.S Army Corps of Engineers. This amendment echoes McCain's own Corps reform legislation, yet he was penalized for missing the vote as much as Senator Barack Obama was penalized for voting against the amendment. Is that fair?

    Sierra Club's disgraceful attacks ignore that Senator McCain has exhibited more leadership on addressing climate change than either Senator Obama or Senator Clinton. McCain's leadership and persistence has moved Congress closer to adopting firm limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

    Since 2003, McCain has been introducing and securing votes on his strong cap-and-trade bill, the Climate Stewardship Act. He also educated his colleagues--from both sides of the aisle--about the need for a strong climate bill. He has taken fellow members of Congress to the far ends of the earth to build support for addressing climate change.

    Sierra Club's statement about the LCV score accused Senator McCain of having a "lifetime record of voting with polluters and special interests." Nothing could be further from the truth.

    Sierra Club's vicious partisan attacks against a GOP nominee for president who posseses the conservation and stewardship ethic of Theodore Roosevelt is shameful.

    The statement validates the suspicion that the Club's partisan loyalties trump its mission of non-partisan environmental advocacy.On McCain gets a zero from League of Conservation Voters; Obama and Clinton score better posted 1 year, 9 months ago 5 Responses