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‘We don’t want to sabotage her’: Why green groups are going easy on Harris (only 6.45 years left)
Politico ^ | 8/23/24 | Zack Colman

Posted on 08/24/2024 5:55:38 PM PDT by Libloather

The climate activist groups that spent more than a year staging protests against President Joe Biden’s energy policies are pursuing a new strategy with his would-be successor: Get Kamala Harris elected now, ask questions later.

Green activists are taking a do-no-harm approach to Harris’ candidacy, ditching demands for policy details and muting potential criticisms over reversing her past opposition to fracking. They say that’s because Harris has excited their base in ways Biden never did — never mind that he signed the biggest climate law in U.S. history.

Stoking that activist fervor was one of the main goals behind the climate groups’ months of pressuring Biden to take more dramatic action against fossil fuels. Now that that’s achieved, they can focus on their most important objective: thwarting Republican nominee Donald Trump, who has vowed to trash their agenda if he wins in November.

“We have to defeat Donald Trump,” said Brett Hartl, chief political strategist with the Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund, a group that has sued the Biden administration several times and challenged federal oil and gas drilling permits. “We don’t want to sabotage her campaign for no valid reason.”

Harris’ campaign also moved quickly to build trust with several progressive environmental groups that had not endorsed Biden’s reelection bid, officials from several of those organizations said, starting with a meeting July 28 just a week after Biden dropped out of the race.

That communication left the activists feeling heard in a way they had not always felt with Biden, environmentalists said afterward — they endorsed Harris three days later. Others said the abrupt switch at the top of the Democratic ticket made them shelve some of their traditional pressure tactics, arguing it was unreasonable to expect Harris’ team to fully flesh out a platform.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Outdoors; Weather
KEYWORDS: climatechange; con; fake; fraud; globalwarming; green; groups; hoax; loot; scam
No gas. I can feel the joy.
1 posted on 08/24/2024 5:55:38 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

No. We should have sent money to the Green candidate. Is it Cornell West? Won’t matter as we’re not smart enough.


2 posted on 08/24/2024 7:03:36 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

The fact they won’t hurt Hairass shows they don’t really care about the environment. Hairass isn’t going to push their agenda much more than Trump.

If they really wanted to affect change they’d vote Trump and them demand the Shi#tocrats adopt their entire program in the mod term elections


3 posted on 08/24/2024 7:13:11 PM PDT by Fai Mao (The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts.)
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To: Libloather

Green Parties have become a joke.


4 posted on 08/24/2024 7:15:05 PM PDT by TonyM (Score Event)
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