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Obama’s EPA Chief Says Biggest Regret Is Not Connecting With Rural Voters
dailycaller.com ^ | 1/9/17 | Chris White

Posted on 01/09/2017 7:57:44 AM PST by ColdOne

Not being able to sell rural voters on the importance of switching from fossil fuels to solar and wind power is Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Gina McCarthy’s biggest regret, she said Friday.

“We tried to change the outreach and messaging in rural America in a number of ways, but … has it changed the rhetoric that people hear? It hasn’t,” McCarthy said in an interview at EPA headquarters. “We couldn’t get it, but I wish we had.”

President Barack Obama nominated McCarthy to lead the agency in 2013. Her tenure has been riddled with controversies and marred by heavy-handed regulatory maneuvers.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: climatechange; epa; epaoutofcontrol; globalwarming
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To: ColdOne

Yeah, it is a shame. I can’t imagine why you couldn’t connect with rural America. Maybe it had something to do with you telling them what they can and can not do?

Someday solar will be a valuable addition, but that’s all it is....an addition

Have you seen wind farm? They are a blight upon the earth. Ugly, noisy, violently killing the birds that fly into them. Maybe liberals can concentrate on re-education schools for birds.

Solar? Again have you seen miles and miles of solar panels? Destroying the desert and and the weird and wonderful creatures that live there. I had a stupid liberal say well it provides shade for them. If they wanted shade they would live in an Ohio forest. I’d have no problem accepting this if they provided enough electricity to power LA but it doesn’t. And have you seen the scorched and burnt birds?

These people don’t care about the earth. They care about their pockets and have the nerve to point their fingers at us! Hypocrites


21 posted on 01/09/2017 8:25:55 AM PST by McGavin999
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To: ColdOne

Is this woman out 1/20/2017?


22 posted on 01/09/2017 8:28:31 AM PST by funfan
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To: ColdOne

One dollar gas and low cost ways of heating and air conditioning homes means a few thousand dollars more to spend or save for the average family. THAT is trivial to the EPA but vital to average folks.

If the US maxed out energy production it would be a boon to the US and world economy. It would fake money from the trouble makers in Russia and the Middle East.


23 posted on 01/09/2017 8:33:05 AM PST by LeonardFMason (LanceyHoward would AGREE)
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To: ColdOne

Oh yea, they connected alright, but we weren’t buying it.


24 posted on 01/09/2017 8:37:43 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: LostPassword

One of the more difficult questions these environmental idiots can’t seem to answer is “Where does electricity come from?” Their answer of “a plug in the wall” leaves a lot to be desired.


25 posted on 01/09/2017 8:40:04 AM PST by anoldafvet
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To: ColdOne
Landowners don't like to be treated as serfs.

There in lies the problem with the manner in which EPA operates.

26 posted on 01/09/2017 8:44:35 AM PST by TYVets
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To: ColdOne

Like the way they connected with the Bundy brothers and Robert ‘LaVoy’ Finicum in Oregon?

/s

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/26/us/oregon-wildlife-refuge-siege-arrests/


27 posted on 01/09/2017 8:46:34 AM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: ColdOne; All
While the EPA is arguably a good idea, it remains that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for environmental issues.

Remember in November ’18 !

Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.

Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.

Patriots need to ask candidates why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.

Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the following Supreme Court clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers.

Note that such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices off of the bench.

28 posted on 01/09/2017 8:48:27 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: ColdOne

Does this mean I can sweep the “wetland” off my driveway when it rains again?


29 posted on 01/09/2017 8:49:31 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: McGavin999

Maybe it has something to do with them thinking they own the water coming out of you downspout.


30 posted on 01/09/2017 8:50:02 AM PST by taterjay
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To: ColdOne

Good Lord. These people are so out of touch and delusional it is nearly unbelievable.

Nearly.

When they go to their rich liberal acquaintances and less-rich useful idiots who buy into their crap, they are all on board with the the comically useless liberal schemes to get windpower and solar to be the main source of energy, as long as they don’t have to pay for it or be inconvenienced by it, like the Kennedy’s who mouth platitudes about it, but when there is a possibility they will see them on their pastoral seascape, it is a different thing.

The less wealthy ones are good as long as they don’t shell it out of their pockets.


31 posted on 01/09/2017 8:56:32 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: ColdOne
They connected alright, but not in a good way.
Most of the EPA regs are just ridiculous.

32 posted on 01/09/2017 8:59:07 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: ColdOne
Obama’s EPA Chief Says Biggest Regret Is Not Connecting With Rural Voters

Maybe they didn't try the right approach?


33 posted on 01/09/2017 9:02:45 AM PST by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: ColdOne

People in flyover who have dealt with the EPA hate them.


34 posted on 01/09/2017 9:02:56 AM PST by GOPJ (ObamaCare Motto: "If You Like Your Doctor, Maybe You'll Like Your New Doctor" - Dave Barry)
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To: ColdOne

Trump will “connect.”


35 posted on 01/09/2017 9:04:02 AM PST by nonsporting
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To: ColdOne

It always comes down to some variant of: “We regret that you are too stupid to believe our lies.” :)


36 posted on 01/09/2017 9:06:09 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: ColdOne

It is tough to connect with folks, when you militarize a white-collar agency, kill a river by ripping open a mining pond, and sue the pants off of landowners for having rain-collection ponds on their private property.


37 posted on 01/09/2017 9:09:06 AM PST by lurk (TEat)
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To: ColdOne

They may be rural voters, but they didn’t just fall from the turnip truck. They would not easily fall in line with a mere EPA ‘Outreach Program’ (i.e. Propoganda).


38 posted on 01/09/2017 9:10:43 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: ColdOne

I think the EPA connected with them very well. They almost unanimously hate the EPA and all the liberal clap trap it stands for.


39 posted on 01/09/2017 9:13:08 AM PST by BuffaloJack
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To: ColdOne

The trouble with rural folk is that they are too dumb to realize that embracing fuels that won’t work or are too pricey in their meager family budgets is important to protect folks in other countries that still use fires to burn out areas to plant and dirty coal to run their factories.

A city slicker might have a problem selling that to my grandpa and daddy.


40 posted on 01/09/2017 9:13:48 AM PST by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a slasher, and find one.... what's your plan?)
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