Posted on 01/26/2012 1:25:26 AM PST by RC one
If you look at cap-and-trade, Gov. Romney was very proud to say that he was the first state in the country as governor to sign a cap on CO-2 emissions, the first state in the country to put a cap believing in global warming and criticized Republicans for not believing in it.
Rick Santorum, during NBC News debate in Tampa, Jan. 23, 2012
The Facts
A Wall Street Journal article from October 2011 noted that Romney strongly supported cap-and-trade while serving as governor of Massachusetts. It reports that he stood outside an old coal-fired plant in 2003, promising activists, I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people, and that plant, that plant kills people.
Romney later bragged about signing the only cap-and-trade bill among the states in 2005, saying Massachusetts was the first and only state to set CO2 emissions limits on power plants.
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I’d encourage people to pass information like this onto the campaign where they can hopefully make use of it: http://www.newt.org/contact
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