22 Senatorial Climate Whores: Trump Supporters Have Received $10 Million+ In Energy Money In 6 Yrs

[hatrack]

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Unmissable behind the elected Republicans stand other interests: the oil, gas and coal industries, which together are some of the most influential donors to Republican candidates.

The big-money supporters got a return on their investment last week, when 22 Republican senators whose campaigns have collected more than $10m in oil, gas and coal money since 2012 sent a letter to the president urging him to withdraw from the Paris deal.

Trump had been said to be on the fence about the deal. Members of his inner circle, including his daughter, were reported to favor staying in. “We strongly encourage you to make a clean break from the Paris Agreement,” read the letter, drafted by Wyoming’s John Barrasso, chairman of the Senate committee on environment and public works, and Oklahoma’s Jim Inhofe, a longtime climate change denier and senior member of that committee. The letter argued that the Paris deal threatened Trump’s efforts to rescind the clean power plan, an Obama-era set of regulations and guidelines that include emissions caps and other rules deemed onerous by the fossil fuel industries.

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Donations from oil, gas and coal interests to the signatories of the letter are Open Secrets that seemed ready for a new review. A Guardian survey of Federal Elections Commission data organized by the Center for Responsive Politics found that the industries gave a total of $10,694,284 to the 22 senators over the past three election cycles.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/01/republican-senators-paris-climate-deal-energy-donations

[WhiteTara]

1. Here's my LTE about our whore

John Boozman sold us out and sold his soul for $149,930. I guess that’s not a bad haul for a no name senator from a back water state. But a Judas he is, none the less. He sold out ours and his grandchildren’s future for the paltry sum of less than 150Thou. That money will be spent in a heartbeat, but the damage done from his vote to exit the Paris Climate Accord will reverberate for generations to come.
For a party so concerned with fetuses, the Republicon Party is callous about the children already on the planet. Contaminated water, filthy air and a planet stripped bare for profit is our future. Heck of a Job, John Boozman. You are doing well for your overlords and masters, the Koch Brothers, et al. But to you I say, To value money over the Life of our only Planet and all of us who live on it, makes you are pathetic specimen of a man.