Republican candidate for for Governor, Chris Dudley, is wrong for Oregon. He’s a rich man representing the wealthy. He evaded Oregon income taxes by maintaining his official residence in Washington, during his lackluster years as a Trailblazer bench warmer. At the same time, he still lived in Lake Oswego, Oregon, to avoid Washington sales tax. He even kept his car registered in Oregon, because the fee here is lower. So it should be no surprise that he’s about cutting taxes for the rich. But to justify the flood of corrupt corporate cash financing his campaign, he’s willing to throw Oregon’s renowned environmental quality under the bus by opposing needed regulation.
Like Christine O’Donnell and other know-nothing Tea Party candidates, Chris Dudley — the Republican nominee for Oregon’s governor — doesn’t know and doesn’t care if global warming is caused by fossil fuel pollution. Toeing the party line, Dudley opposes the Western Climate Initiative global warming agreement as a “cap-tax-trade” system that would “do damage to the economy and job creation.” He even bashed a weatherization initiative as a boondoggle. “Climate change is probably caused by a variety of factors,” Dudley said in a September interview with the Oregonian, “but that debate is beside the point.” In a gubernatorial debate on September 30, Dudley finally admitted he doesn’t know if pollution is causing global warming…
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Like Christine O’Donnell and other know-nothing Tea Party candidates, Chris Dudley — the Republican nominee for Oregon’s governor — doesn’t know and doesn’t care if global warming is caused by fossil fuel pollution. Toeing the party line, Dudley opposes the Western Climate Initiative global warming agreement as a “
How many times must these douchebags be told that global warming is caused by PEOPLE – the science is there – read it dumass. 😯
Those who do not agree with the science, have alterior motives for their views.