CO-Sen: Cory Gardner (R) Brags About A Green Energy Measure That Failed In New Campaign Ad

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Friday September 05, 2014 · 9:49 AM PDT

2014/09/05 · 09:49

He ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

GOP Senate candidate Cory Gardner, framed by sunflowers and wind turbines, tells voters in a campaign ad this week that he co-wrote a law to launch Colorado's green-energy economy. He leaves out that the law was repealed five years later, deemed useless for not enabling a single project.
"Gardner's claiming credit for launching Colorado's clean-energy economy and he did not. Coloradans did that and Coloradans deserve the credit," said Chris Harris, spokesman for incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Udall. Udall's camp has been deriding Gardner's wind-turbine ad and the Republicans' touting of the 2007 law.

The Clean Energy Development Authority, which was set up by the law, was intended to assist in the financing of clean-energy projects such as improvements to electricity transmission lines. It came three years after voters made Colorado the first state to create a renewable portfolio standard.

At the time the law was passed Gardner was a member of the Colorado House. He was elected to the U.S. House in 2010.

In a press release touting the turbine ad that first aired on Monday, Gardner's campaign cited a 2007 speech by then-Gov. Bill Ritter, a Democrat, who predicted the Gardner bill would "solve one of the biggest challenges when it comes to clean energy."

But the authority had financing caveats that made it toothless, said Tom Plant, who oversaw the authority from its creation until 2011 as head of the Governor's Energy Office. - Huffington Post, 9/4/14

Here's some more details:

http://www.denverpost.com/...

"He introduced the legislation in good faith in order to do something," Plant said this week of Gardner. But he said the authority's funding mechanism "made it impossible for us to ever issue bonds."
The authority never had a staff and did little but gather once a year to report to the legislature that it had made no progress. By 2012 the authority was scrapped, part of a larger makeover of the Energy Office, now called the Colorado Energy Office.

"There's no point in having something that can't do anything," said Plant, now a policy adviser at the Center for the New-Energy Economy at Colorado State University. The center is run by Ritter, who set up the Governor's Energy Office and appointed Plant to run it. - Denver Post, 9/4/14

Now here's Gardner's B.S. response:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/...

In response to the Post's report, a Gardner spokesman pointed out to TPM that the Democratic governor at the time praised the law and turned attention back to Sen. Mark Udall (D), whom Gardner is challenging.
"It's a remarkable turn of events that Mark Udall is now criticizing Cory Gardner for supporting renewable energy and fighting for Colorado's green energy economy," Gardner spokesman Matt Connelly said in a statement. "It may be tough for a do-nothing senator like Mark Udall to understand, but Coloradans expect their elected officials to put forth bold proposals and that's exactly what Cory Gardner did and will continue to do."

Political observers in Colorado expect energy and environmental issues to be central to the Senate campaign there. Gardner has talked up his green energy bonafides in recent days, while outside environmental groups have attacked his past statements expressing skepticism about man-made climate change. - TPM, 9/5/14

Yeah nice try pal. No one should believe the hype about Gardner's "clean energy bona fides." He's just another climate denier:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Why is Congressman Cory Gardner smiling? Maybe it's because in just four years in Congress, he has raised $695,000 from dirty polluters from the oil and gas industry, who happen to be the largest source of his contributions. In addition, the oil billionaire Koch Brothers have already spent several million dollars, separate from Gardner's own campaign operation, trying to help him unseat climate champion Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO). This includes $1 million in March to buy television ads; a portion of a $1.1 million ad buy in April, plus two more ad buys totaling $550,000 in May.
It's not hard to figure out why the Koch brothers would want Gardner in the Senate. In 2012, he was the lead sponsor in the House of a bill that was a total giveaway to oil and gas companies. He has repeatedly voted to protect taxpayer subsidies for highly profitable oil companies. And Gardner is leading the charge trying to make sure government doesn't act on climate change.

Gardner's dirty votes and fossil-fueled campaign chest easily place him on the Daily Dirty Denier$ list. Don't believe us? Here's what he has to say about climate change, "I don't believe humans are causing that change to the extent that's been in the news." To top it all off he voted to deny the EPA's scientific findings that industrial carbon pollution threatens the health and well-being of Americans. - Huffington Post, 8/7/14

Lets defeat this climate denying, anti-science, pro-pollution Koch Brothers foot soldier in November by contributing and getting involved with Senator Mark Udall's (D. CO) campaign: