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Tom Steyer Launches Effort To Defeat 2016 Climate Denier Candidates
The Huffington Post ^ | April 6, 2015 | by Kate Sheppard

Posted on 04/06/2015 3:57:12 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Tom Steyer's climate-focused political group is already gearing up for the 2016 presidential race, announcing on Monday a new effort that will focus on putting Republican candidates on the defense when it comes to global warming.

NextGen Climate's chief strategist, Chris Lehane, said in a call with reporters that the group's mission heading into 2016 is to "disqualify" candidates who deny that climate change is real or caused by human activity by proving that "they don't have what it takes to be president." The effort will be called Hot Seat, and NextGen Climate says it will involve media and on-the-ground campaigns in key electoral states aimed at linking Republican deniers to the Koch brothers and other interests that seek to undermine climate science.

Their first target, Lehane said, is Rand Paul, who is expected to announce his candidacy Tuesday in Louisville, Kentucky. The group is planning to hit Paul with a stunt involving a "lie detector test" to force him to go on the record about his views on climate change, and will also follow the candidate to Iowa.

The group intends to portray Republican candidates who deny climate change as being subservient to the will of major donors like the Koch brothers, the conservative fossil-fuel billionaires.

NextGen is already planning to follow Scott Walker, the Republican governor of Wisconsin and a potential 2016 candidate, as he travels to Europe later this month.

(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election2016; globalwarming; hoax; marxism

1 posted on 04/06/2015 3:57:12 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A debate Cruz Control welcomes!!!!


2 posted on 04/06/2015 4:01:40 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Liberals don’t debate.

They have the Journ-0-lists supply the masses with pre-digested truths.


3 posted on 04/06/2015 4:03:02 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The partisan witchhunt begins.

The pravda media can politick throughout the scampaign and claim it is merely reporting “news”.


4 posted on 04/06/2015 4:03:39 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (If Indiana's 'treatment' of homosexuals matters, why doesn't Cuba's treatment of homosexuals matter?)
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To: nascarnation

Low information voters are easy to scare.

“They gon’ put y’all back in chains!”- VP Joe Biden

“The oceans will be dead by 2005.” - (paraphrased from Ted Danson’s 1985 boast that they would be dead in 20 years)


5 posted on 04/06/2015 4:06:07 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (If Indiana's 'treatment' of homosexuals matters, why doesn't Cuba's treatment of homosexuals matter?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I hope the left aren’t as effective on this as they have been with the homo agenda.

The media and the gay agenda folks would have you believing every homosexual is as lovable as a teddy bear.


6 posted on 04/06/2015 4:07:17 PM PDT by boycott
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The goal is to get Republicans to compromise on the issue, so they'll lose their base of support and lose to the Rat candidate. That's the objective, as running regular ads about stopping global warming failed miserably for Steyer in 2014.

Never accept the premise of your opponents' argument

7 posted on 04/06/2015 4:07:50 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (GO WISCONSIN BADGERS GO!)
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To: boycott

I’d bet a lot of $$ that the high school class of 2015 is far more knowledgeable about “climate change” than about the US Constitution.


8 posted on 04/06/2015 4:09:31 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Rhymes with liar.


9 posted on 04/06/2015 4:09:49 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If Steyer made his money off cheap coal, he should be sued for every dime of damage he’s done to the environment.


10 posted on 04/06/2015 4:10:13 PM PDT by boycott
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To: boycott

“The media and the gay agenda folks would have you believing every homosexual is as lovable as a teddy bear.”

Remember this manhunt?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cunanan

Andrew Phillip Cunanan (August 31, 1969 – July 23, 1997) was an American serial killer[1] who murdered at least five people, including fashion designer Gianni Versace, during a three-month period in 1997. On June 12, 1997, Cunanan became the 449th fugitive to be listed by the FBI on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. The killing spree ended with Cunanan’s suicide. He was 27 years old.

[snip]

After graduating from high school in 1987, he enrolled at the University of California, San Diego, where he majored in American history.[5] After dropping out, he settled in the Castro District of San Francisco.[2] While there, he frequented high-class gay bars and sold sex to wealthy older men,[2] and became involved in petty theft and drug dealing.

[snip]


11 posted on 04/06/2015 4:17:27 PM PDT by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Global warming afficiando’s are the RICH and Corporatists the Libs so hate.....we need to tie this into our message...ie...you middle class yokels....FOLLOW the MONEY....YOUR Money down the yellowbrick road to CORPORATISTS and the likes of the Rockefeller’s, etc.


12 posted on 04/06/2015 4:25:57 PM PDT by goodnesswins (I think we've reached PEAK TYRANNY now.....)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ah yes, Chris Lehane...a slime ball’s slime ball.


13 posted on 04/06/2015 4:36:24 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The CAGW (CATASTROPHIC Anthropogenic Global Warming) cult is afraid to debate anyone who is knowledgeable with facts and data. Bring it on!


14 posted on 04/06/2015 4:55:06 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Climate fanatics are the new religious tyrants, determined to force everyone into accepting their faith. Their Hell is an imaginary Earth where anthropogenic global warming turns everything into smoldering ashes. ...But don’t discount them as harmless loons. They are as bent on killing us all as Muslims are.


15 posted on 04/06/2015 4:56:20 PM PDT by pallis
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To: norwaypinesavage

Anytime the thought control commissars bring up the Koch brothers, respond with Soros and Steyer.


16 posted on 04/06/2015 5:53:16 PM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Steyer’s business positions and investments need to be identified, targeted and destroyed.


17 posted on 04/06/2015 6:01:29 PM PDT by indthkr
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