Posted on 10/08/2013 7:08:17 AM PDT by Maelstorm
GOP efforts to demonize the EPA’s climate change regulations haven’t found a groundswell of support in Virginia, where voters are more likely to favor the rules than oppose them, according to a new poll commissioned by POLITICO.
The poll, conducted by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling and the Republican firm Harper Polling using automated survey methodology, found that 45 percent of likely voters support new EPA climate regulations for coal-fired power plants, an issue that has become a flashpoint in the Virginia governor’s race. Thirty-three percent of likely voters say they oppose the regulations and 22 percent aren’t sure.
Meant to excerpt.
Here is the link:
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/politico-poll-virginia-epa-climate-rule-97957.html?hp=l1
Also please take the time to comment. The nutty left is swamping the comments.
NoVa gubbermint employees who think electricity is produced in trees by the Keebler Elves.
Virginia and Maryland are now wholly-owned subsidiaries of DC.
To bring back something from the ‘70’s. Then let them freeze in the cold darkness.
Pravda has more veritas than Politico these days.
I’m getting rather disgusted with voters in this state...
They seem quite willing to look past the job-killing EPA restrictions on the coal industry.. they’re apathetic about the prospect of unprecedented violations of the 2nd Amendment, and the likelihood of the state’s economy being run asunder by a DNC henchman masquerading as Governor... all for the perverse joy of throwing Republicans overboard. This same poll referenced here also shows Fast Terry McAwful leading 52%-42% over Ken Cuccinelli. We’re in a dark time now.
Sadly, I have no retort to that argument.
They never show the question.
LOL----nice take.
In point of fact, the govt employee population is already larger than the populations of Rhode Island, Wyoming, Delaware, Alaska, Montana, North and South Dakota, New Hampshire, Maine, Hawaii, Idaho, West Virginia, Nebraska and New Mexico....if government employees formed their own state, it would be the 36th largest state in the union.
And all those govt employees are sucking off the backs of taxpayers bigtime----high 5-6 figure salaries, Cadillac h/care, perks, benefits, expense accounts, credit cards, paid vacations/sick days, resort meetings w/ prizes and dance lessons (ala IRS).....and munificent pensions collected into eternity.
Since the Obamanation took office, millions have received an extra perk---security clearance---as govt wiretaps rose 71% last year alone.
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PLEASE PASS THE PEPTO BISMOL For a decade, all those high-paid govt employees have been paying a billion dollars annually to 250,000 dead people.....now you have to be dead to collect tax dollars. Just show up at any government giveaway office with proof of your own death. (Please note that lack of a conscience, soul, morality, or manners does not equate to being legally dead. Speaking Spanish is a definite plus.)
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DROP THIS IN THE GOVT SUGGESTION BOX Struggling taxpayers are being extorted for $billions--even $trillions--in "foreign (gag) aid" to creepy, sub-standard governments who routinely install leaders w/ huge self-esteem problems (that only a few billion from US taxpayers can ameliorate).
Why not have the Govt Printing Office collate several thousand copies of Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People"...... and hand them out to these ineffectual creeps in their foreign satraps, in lieu of foreign aid.
Now you're talking r-e-a-l savings.
If we could all be tax-payer paid parasites living in the richest counties in the USA, which, of course, are clustered around the Big Government trough in D.C., we could all afford exorbitant electricity costs.
Why do I never get a call from this A$$holes? Because I have an electric bill, vote and pay taxes?
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Candidate McAwful's a triple threat---he was lacerated for his poor debating skills---
he worships abortion---and he's a Democrat insider lying-in-wait to profit from
his high-level govt connections.
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<><>McAuliffe made a campaign promise to exempt existing abortion clinics from having to comply with state health and safety standards. Recently, a number of clinics in the state were closed after they failed to live up to state standards.
Last year, according to Women Speak Out, more than 80 violations were discovered inside Virginia abortion facilities. But that doesn't seem to stop McAuliffe from defending them. This clearly shows his concern is for the well being of the abortion industry and not women.
Here's what he said: "I can do what I talked about, issue a guidance opinion by March to keep the remaining health centers open. I can do that myself as Governor. That's why I said I'll do that by March to keep the remaining, uh, Norfolk is closed. Fairfax is closed, or closing, so there will be 18 left. Only one of those 18 actually meet the, the requirements so they'll all close if I don't do that. "
"But I will issue what's called a guidance opinion by mid-March which will say that these regulations, I have, the General Assembly wasn't definitive with the Board of Health as to the rules, I can give a guidance opinion to the Board of Health to grandfather in those remaining clinics to keep them open. That's why this election is so important, and I will do that."
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<><> SEC investigating illegalities in company co-founded by Terry McAuliffe / By David Sherfinski
The SEC is investigating the green car company founded by Va gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe over concerns that it allegedly (illegally) guaranteed returns for its investors. The SEC has subpoenaed bank records of GreenTech’s funding arm, the McLean-based financing company Gulf Coast Funds Management, LLC.
Documents attached to a July 31 letter from Sen. Charles E. Grassley also raise more questions on the extent of the interaction between officials at the two companies and Alejandro Mayorkas, the director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in DHS.
DHS is investigating whether Mr. Mayorkas assisted in approving an investor visa application submitted by Gulf Coast, even after the application was denied and an appeal was rejected.
Mr. Mayorkas, Obama’s pick to be the next No. 2 at DHS, testified last week that the extent of his interaction with Mr. McAuliffe was one meeting in which he heard his complaints about investor visas being held up.
Mr. Grassley said it went further than that.“Contrary to the impression left by your answer, documents indicate that both before and after that meeting, you actually engaged in nearly a dozen contacts with Gulf Coast Funds Management between 2010 and 2013, including direct communications with Gulf Coast’s attorneys,” the Iowa Republican wrote to Mr. Mayorkas. “That one meeting with Mr. McAuliffe was clearly not the extent of your interaction on that matter.”
Officials at the two companies and did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday. A spokesman for the McAuliffe campaign noted that Mr. McAuliffe left GreenTech in 2012 and that he has no knowledge of any investigation. News of the SEC investigation was first reported Friday by The Wash/Post.
The documents include forwarded e-mails from Mr. McAuliffe to Douglas Smith, an official in DHS’s office of the Private Sector, that were forwarded to Mr. Mayorkas and an e-mail from Mr. Mayorkas himself saying that face-to-face meetings for particular cases are not appropriate.”As the Director of this Agency, I do not adjudicate cases and am not the proper audience for a telephone call or a meeting about a particular case,” he wrote to Gulf Coast’s general counsel earlier this year. “I will forward your e-mail to the appropriate individual in the Agency.”
USCIS handles cases involved in the EB-5 program, where foreign investors put up between $500,000 and $1 million for American companies in exchange for legal status.
Govt attorneys wrote that such a meeting would violate the Administrative Procedures Act. “I think it also raises an impartiality issue if we entertain pre-decisional meetings of this sort with particular applicants and petitioners,” USCIS’s Ethics Officer wrote. “It is not a concern to have meetings with particular industries, trade groups, bar associations, etc., on systemic issues that are not case specific, so long as we are willing to meet with all.”
Gulf Coast is run by Anthony Rodham, the brother of former Secy of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and is the finance arm of GreenTech Automotive Inc. Mr. McAuliffe founded GreenTech in 2009 and quietly stepped down as chairman in Dec — a fact only revealed in April in response to an inquiry from a Politico reporter.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/2/sec-investigating-company-co-founded-terry-mcaulif/
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<><> Wall to wall media coverage about an $18K gift to Cuccinelli, but this corrupt scumbag carpetbagger McAuful has skimmed tens of millions of dollars from corrupt deal after corrupt deal (the Clinton-era Global Crossing heist is just the start) and not a peep from the press.
To be honest a large segment is just ignorant. They don’t know till they get the electric bills and that is where the GOP fails with messaging. The right kind of ad should be focused on how does this effect the voter negatively. If I were creating ads I’d create two. One focused on lost mining jobs and the other that drives home in a personal way what the result of the regulations would mean in increased electric bills. The GOP doesn’t seem to understand that you have to make these things personal. Its why the Democrats stupid war on woman stuff works.
I think Ken may very well pull this out because every poll I’ve seen assumes an electorate far more like 2012 than it should be in the midterms. Sarvis is the wild card. Ken has seemed a bit more timid than I like.
Probably didn’t poll anyone outside of metro DC. Those people think that the walls of their homes are full of electricity so coal fired electric plants aren’t needed.
Terry is running to gurantee the sate for hillay.
If elected he will insure she has the votes to win
Then, he will rob the state treasury
The Democrat party is a criminal enterprise
I don’t trust PPP. I do believe that if you asked people this simple question “If it means that your electric bill would go up do you support EPA Regulations?”. I have no doubt that these numbers would shift dramatically.
Democrat poll. Probabl polling the Washington DC commuters.
It's Politico, so that's what I'm thinking, too. It may just be bias, but I simply cannot believe this. But if it's true, then my state is lost.
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