Posted on 01/13/2024 3:40:42 PM PST by bitt
John Kerry, President Biden’s high-flying climate czar, will leave his post later this winter to focus on his boss’s re-election campaign.
The 80-year-old former secretary of state and onetime Democratic presidential candidate – who has drawn criticism for his luxe jet-setting while preaching energy austerity for the masses – told his staff of his imminent departure after speaking with Biden Wednesday, Axios reported Saturday.
The administration has not chosen a replacement for Kerry, who has been Biden’s top climate diplomat since 2021, source familiar with the situation told Reuters.
Kerry has not taken an official job in Biden’s re-election, but “plans to help tell the climate story in the context of Biden’s campaign,” according to Axios.
The Democrat’s long political career, including a 28-year stint as a US senator from Massachusetts and a failed White House run against George W. Bush in 2004, was marred by persistent accusations of climate hypocrisy.
When Biden named Kerry to his custom-created, US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate in 2021, critics bashed him for his regular use of a private jet, a Gulfstream Aerospace aircraft registered to a company owned by his wife Teresa Heinz-Kerry.
During his 2004 presidential run, Kerry’s campaign made 60 payments to his wife’s company, totaling $273,171, for use of the aircraft – and in 2013, the then-secretary of state’s executive branch personnel financial disclosure showed him owning “over $1,000,001” in the company’s assets through his wife, Fox News reported.
Kerry continued to use the carbon-spewing jet during his first 18 months as climate czar, racking up 48 trips lasting more than 60 hours and releasing an estimated 715,886 pounds — 325 metric tons — of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to flight records.
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I had an acquaintance in grad school who was from New England and he had met John Kerry at a public event. The guy said that Kerry is even LESS likeable in person.
He’s an idiot communist and in a world where the word “treason” is almost always misused, this creep is the genuine article.
Met with and gave aid and comfort to the enemy N Vietnamese while in uniform and during wartime.
He should be in prison if not hung and instead they protected him.
twofer
So ketchup moocher can get more jet time and pollute the world while preaching down to others
BUTBUTBUT What about the environment?
OMG without John F’n Kerry on the job the oceans will boil and we’re all gonna die!!!
What about that?!!
The guy on the left was a nice guy with a warm personality. The guy on the right is creepy strange.
Consider. Frenchie married up with Theresa.
Not-So-Swift Boater.
The first one seem to have more personality and a better sense of humor. Classy
Hmmm.
Stepping down you say?
On the bad side, having Kerry in may make this a real horse race.
Forecasted low tonight here in central Kansas: -12. I guess Kerry’s private jet caused this ‘global warming’. Hey John: disappear scumbag.
Fleas leave a dead dog (Joe).
Who is John Kerry going to convince to vote for Biden? What wavering Democrat voters would he be looking for and what would he say to convince them that Biden should have four more years at the White House?
Dumb and dumber.
Leave Washington and join ole joes campaign. Both places will be smarter.
Que Lurch: “Oooooohhh”
I have been wondering about that, for years.
Hey, Lurch, release your SF-180!
* 18 months as climate czar
* 48 trips lasting more than 60 hours
* 358 tons of CO2 emitted by John Kerry (ignoring his breathing)
Meanwhile, the average American emitted 14.4 tons in all of 2022.
This bastard’s jet trips alone emitted TWENTY FIVE TIMES more CO2 than the average American does in a year. And he tells us to do without.
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