Today, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) announced plans to target former Club for Growth President and Pennsylvania Senate candidate Pat Toomey for defeat by adding him to the 2010 "Dirty Dozen" list. Coinciding with the announcement, we launched an online campaign that includes a web video and targeted online advertising, alerting Pennsylvania voters to Toomey’s campaign cash from Big Oil and his dangerous support for oil and gas drilling in Lake Erie, even in the wake of the Gulf Coast catastrophe and the record-breaking Midwest oil spill in the Kalamazoo River.
Toomey’s lifetime LCV environmental score is an abysmal 11%. As a Congressman, Toomey voted against repealing subsidies to Big Oil, against increasing energy efficiency measures and against efforts to help American drivers go further on a gallon of gas. Over the course of his political career, Toomey has received more than $294,000 from energy interests, including $123,800 from the Oil and Gas industry. Toomey has also made his staunch opposition to comprehensive energy and climate legislation that creates jobs, reduces pollution and increases our national security a key part of his campaign.
Be it as a member of Congress or president of the Club for Growth, Pat Toomey has made clear that he walks lockstep with Big Oil and other corporate polluters while opposing new energy policies that would set America on the path to a clean energy future. From drilling for oil in the Great Lakes to opposing legislation that creates clean energy jobs, his extreme views on energy policy put him far outside the mainstream and easily earn him a spot on the Dirty Dozen.
You can help defeat Pat Toomey by contributing to Joe Sestak’s campaign via LCV Action Fund’s GiveGreen, the only website dedicated exclusively to raising money for pro-environment candidates.