Study: Lawmakers' Environmental Votes Are Worst Ever (bias barf alert)

KFYI.com (Phoenix Fox Radio affiliate) ^ | July 8, 2011

[Still Thinking]

Conservation group analyzes legislators' votes

Arizona state lawmakers have their worst scores on record when it comes to supporting legislation having to do with conservation and the environment.

The Arizona League of Conservation Voters released its annual environmental scorecard, showing the voting records of legislators on 21 bills covering topics such as water and land conservation, state parks preservation, species protection, and air quality. The group says the results indicate the Arizona legislature "had the worst performance of the millenium on conservation issues and probably the worst ever," according to a news release.

Steve Arnquist, executive director of the non-partisan League, says "Not only were the scores lower this year, but we saw attacks against longstanding and successful environmental protections like the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and Endangered Species Act. Arizona's legislature should be working to make Arizona a healthy, safe place to live, not catering to destructive special interests."

This year, the Arizona House had a positive score of 39% on supporting environmental and conservation legislation, and the Senate scored 33%. Those are well below the ten-year average of 62.9% for the House and 61.6% for the Senate.

The scores mark the first time the House has scored below 50%, and only the second time the Senate has done so. (Last year the Senate scored 48%.) During most of the years from 2002-2010, both houses scored mainly in the 60s and 70s.

[Still Thinking]

I don't mind if the news reports what these moronic envirobots think; they have as much right as I do to be involved in the discourse, more or less. But I resent fiercely that the news accepts their agenda-based extreme views and reports them as known fact, and doesn't take the time to describe the organization or ITS viewpoints as potentially controversial. In the on-air version, they didn't even say "Study says:....", they just titled the piece "Lawmakers' Environmental Votes Are Worst Ever", as if this were from some group 99.9% of all voters agree with the rest of the time.

And this is on probably the premier conservative Phoenix talk station, the one that has Limbaugh for example, and is supported by conservative listeners. You'd think they'd at least refrain from insulting their bread and butter customers.

[cripplecreek]

In Michigan the league of conservation voters is a liberal group through and through.

[Still Thinking]

Yeah, “non-partisan” my fat white hairy azz! The extent of their non-partisanship is either that THEY SAY they are, or they intentionally sent one of their wackjob envirobots down to register (R), just so they could say that (and vote for RINO’s like McCain in primaries), or they found one of the four or five brain dead R’s who thinks they’re right.

[cripplecreek]

They list Fred Upton as one of the top 4 “offenders” from Michigan. If they think he’s bad, I’d hate to see who they like.

He’s one of the SOBs who voted to ban lightbulbs and has voted to ban slant drilling for natural gas under the lakes.

[Eva]

I’ve been doing a little research into Gateways, part of the Agenda 21 Wildland projects. Up until recently, I thought that Gateways were multi-modal transportation corridors intended to move people and goods between urban areas through rural areas in order to limit human incursion and activity in the rural areas. I thought that Gateways were mainly rail and port projects.

Lately, every time I do a search on Gateways, I get projects in AZ. They now have Gateways into rural areas of Arizona that they say will protect the natural habitat and water from humans and diminish the chance of wild fires. They are using the wildfires as an excuse to limit human activity and access to these areas. Now you must enter through the “gateway”.