More Pathetic Greenwashing From Lindsey Graham; Apparently He Held A Hearing Once

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Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has for years portrayed himself as a climate champion, but his ardent support for a president who has dismantled climate policy has environmentalists determined to unseat him.

Their hopes are riding instead on a political newcomer, Democrat Jaime Harrison, a former aide to Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) and the first Black leader of the South Carolina Democratic Party. In what they say, Graham and Harrison don't seem to be that far apart on climate. But Graham, despite his avowals and involvement in climate legislation in the past, has not delivered any tangible successes.

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Graham has long said he agrees with scientists who say humans are causing climate change. But he does not have a record of success in furthering action to address the threat to the planet. In 2010, he played a key role in President Obama losing his best chance of getting climate legislation through Congress. Graham offered to come up with a bipartisan alternative to the cap-and-trade bill that the House passed the previous year, and then-Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Connecticut independent Joe Lieberman joined him, in what became a months-long effort. But Graham never was able to bring along a single fellow Republican, and on the weekend before the bill was introduced, Graham himself abruptly pulled his support, citing partisan politics.

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In the last year, Graham has said Republicans need to develop a climate strategy and was one of seven GOP members to join the bipartisan Senate Climate Solutions Caucus, whose goal was to come up with legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions using "market-based approaches." Graham also held a hearing on ocean plastics, and co-founded a joint House and Senate Roosevelt Conservation Caucus, which seeks to restore President Teddy Roosevelt's environmental legacy in the Republican Party, an effort to mount a GOP response to the Green New Deal. "We're either going to have a relevant position on the environment or begin to lose ground," Graham told The Post and Courier.

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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03092020/senate-2020-south-carolina-climate-change-lindsey-graham-jaime-harrison

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1. Nothing Graham says can be trusted

I sent a donation to Jaime Harrison last week.

[liberal N proud]

2. He would have had to pull his head out of trumps a$$ to do anything on his own

This South Carolinian is working to end his reign.

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3. Thank you! Much appreciated!!

All this Missourian can do is donate to Jaime Harrison.

[liberal N proud]

4. It's working

My wife is from Missouri I went to school there and we lived there for 20 years.

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5. Likewise - donated last Tuesday . . .

May have to do so again today.

For every dollar, a tear from Lindsey Graham.