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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKarma is real: GOP Senator Who Walked Out To Stop Climate Vote Loses House To Wildfire
As Wikipedia states:
From June 20, 2019, all 11 Republican state senators for Oregon, including Girod, refused to show up for work at the Oregon State Capitol, instead going into hiding, some even fleeing the state. Their aim was to push the vote on a cap-and-trade proposal that would dramatically lower greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 to combat climate change to voters instead of being instituted by lawmakers. The Senate holds 30 seats, but 1 is vacant due to a death. Without the Republican senators, the remaining 18 Democratic state senators could not reach a quorum of 20 to hold a vote. Although several Republican state senators returned to the Senate chamber on June 29, 2019, leading to the cap-and-trade bill being sent back to committee, while other bills were passed, Girod was missing, and it was stated that he would not return for the months legislative session.
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Fred Girod stood near the edge of a steep drop between what remained of his house and the Santiam River, grasping the destruction days after the Beachie Creek wildfire destroyed homes, businesses and landmarks along the canyon.
http://labor411.org/411-blog/gop-senator-who-walked-out-to-stop-climate-vote-loses-house-to-wildfire/
malaise
(268,724 posts)RFN!
irisblue
(32,932 posts)PNW-Dem
(244 posts)To provide him with a word of support or to explain the link between greenhouse gasses and your house burning down.
https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/girod/
PNW-Dem
(244 posts)turbinetree
(24,685 posts)everyone's insurance premiums are going to go up because in essence jerk................you and your bunch thinks its fake and wanted to deny anything to help the planet and your fucking house that is now gone............, hows those chicken coming home to roost now feel in your moment in real time...............hows sleeping in a hotel for awhile going for you and your family............ .....
Dustlawyer
(10,494 posts)Climate Change legislation passed and these politicians would rather be re-elected using the dirty money. Doing the right and responsible thing never enters into it.
liberalla
(9,227 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,253 posts)quakerboy
(13,917 posts)More Timber companies, developers, etc out here, I suspect.
The last sentance fits like a glove though. He's got insurance, he is inconvenienced, no more. He wont be changing his position
bucolic_frolic
(43,064 posts)Escurumbele
(3,379 posts)Good point
Illumination
(2,458 posts)Sancho
(9,067 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)roamer65
(36,744 posts)hatrack
(59,578 posts).
SergeStorms
(19,187 posts)he must be convinced this was "god's will", right? This jackass gets my very best 'thoughts and prayers'.
AllaN01Bear
(18,016 posts)lastlib
(23,167 posts)and thus ineligible to hold his seat? I sure hope so! Throw his ass out and elect someone who will SERVE his constituents!
catbyte
(34,341 posts)calimary
(81,127 posts)Earth Bound Misfit
(3,553 posts)dchill
(38,451 posts)mountain grammy
(26,598 posts)he went with the house..
concretebluetwo
(114 posts)"Karma is only a Bitch if you are."
calimary
(81,127 posts)H2O Man
(73,510 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,374 posts)DSandra
(999 posts)mcar
(42,278 posts)Locrian
(4,522 posts)good. I have zero sympathy for anyone (R or D) that doesn't understand the severity of this
Maybe he'll finally figure out that it's real, it's here, and it's going to get worse - and that we need to address it
calimary
(81,127 posts)evacuated without them. Theyre assumed to have died. One wonders why they werent brought along too.
I know its hard to judge the circumstances and what level of frantic action when you have to make a run for it. SOOOOOOO much easier said than done here.
We have our two cat carriers parked in the front hall, and a portable litter box, bag of kibble, couple of bowls and water bottles packed up for fast grabbing.
Our cats are also indoor-only. Easier to round em up if need be. MUCH easier.
Locrian
(4,522 posts)re the cats - that's pretty sad....
But yeah, who knows in the frantic / panic - whether they were outside somewhere hiding etc.
Ours is indoors only - pretty easy to round up that way.
marlakay
(11,431 posts)But the my cat is indoor only. Sad about the kitties.
It is karma for him to lose his house refusing to vote for the environment.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,583 posts)I'm not gonna shame anybody for their comments but I just can't join in. In spite of his climate denial views and his resultant idiotic actions with the climate bill vote, I still feel bad for him. Mostly because he lost his fur babies and a home that his parents built when he was a teenager. There must've been so many memories attached to it. I hope that this causes him to do some soul searching.
calimary
(81,127 posts)Im sorry that someone has to learn a lesson the hard way like this.
And maybe he isnt a climate denier per se (more of that always seems to proliferate from his side of the aisle). But he played a role in preventing something from actually getting done on the climate crisis, by walking out on the session so they couldnt get a quorum. That makes him part of the problem, and not part of the solution.
Chainfire
(17,474 posts)having nothing whatsoever to do with man-made climate change. Deniers never run out of excuses and they do not let uncomfortable facts interfere with preconceived notions. I is impossible for them to grasp the notion that their action or lack of action contributed to the massive losses.
If people don't get their acts together, we will pass into geologic time, as a blip, just another failed species, in a long line of failed species.
If we go, I hope that dogs succeed us, they are far better animals then we are.
dchill
(38,451 posts)ffr
(22,665 posts)Fear Mother Nature, motha-f_cker!
UpInArms
(51,280 posts)The remains of his Dodge diesel truck, recently in cherry condition, stood higher up the hill from his house.
Thats my forever home, Girod said. Thats my forever truck.
llmart
(15,534 posts)I guess it really wasn't "forever".
People lost their lives and he's getting teary eyed over his truck.
intheflow
(28,443 posts)It's not a competition over who has the worst traumatic experience. Literally, the trauma you know is the trauma you know. That doesn't make it any less traumatic for that individual, nor does it lessen the trauma experienced by the lost lives.
As for me, I have a hard time understanding how a 69-year-old man still believed in "forever" things. What on Earth or the heavens lasts forever? That comment reflected his hubris and privilege, for sure. And it also illustrated how much faith he's put in magical thinking - a faith now shattered by reality. He's an asshole, and he's traumatized. I just hope this awakens him to the bigger climate change unfolding now. (Though not holding my breath for that.)
llmart
(15,534 posts)If that's the most "traumatic" experience he's had in life then I would think some gratitude for his life would be in order, not a woe is me reply.
I say that as a person who has never put much value on material possessions.
TheBlackAdder
(28,168 posts).
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Blue Owl
(50,288 posts)Warpy
(111,172 posts)And besides, it wouldn't be Karma. It would be Nemesis, and she's been asleep at the wheel for decades.
FakeNoose
(32,598 posts)... for building a house in a wildfire zone - that's karma! I'm sure that happens on a daily basis. Otherwise the insurance companies are all going out of business.
Ford_Prefect
(7,873 posts)[link:
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(17,158 posts)straining... straining... straining...
Sorry. All I did was fart. That'll have to do.
NoRoadUntravelled
(2,626 posts)Maybe he gets it now and can start voting on the side of the planet.
Submariner
(12,498 posts)and is visibly crushed that his baseball card and kiddie-porn collections are gone.
progressoid
(49,952 posts)the three cats they had who probably perished.
That's it.
klook
(12,152 posts)Yeah, well, the destruction and misery all up and down the west coast is deeply painful for a lot of us, even those who don't personally know a living soul out there.
That this dipshit begins to care only when he's personally affected is par for the deviant Republican course and not at all surprising, but still disgusting and pathetic.
Roy Rolling
(6,908 posts)Revenge is a dish best served cold. It just doesnt fit, but Mother Nature is pissed off and she has a memory like an elephant. 🐘🐘🐘🐘
Karmas a bitch.
Cha
(296,875 posts)reality of the Climate change crisis, state senator Girod.
TeamPooka
(24,210 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)This fucker will be a denier until he dies. His death will not come soon enough for me.
rpannier
(24,328 posts)Also hope his property is burned ash and that he didn't have insurance on his house
quakerboy
(13,917 posts)the majority of those who had to evac voted for him and his ilk, and trump.
And they will again.
ck4829
(35,039 posts)AlexSFCA
(6,137 posts)eventually.
captain queeg
(10,103 posts)This small instance gives me some hope. The orange anus deserves far worse. I cant really think of anything terrible enough to happen that would balance his sins and crimes.
Captaindad
(40 posts)betterknowaballot.com
mwb970
(11,348 posts)Irony suits trump cultists well.
BumRushDaShow
(128,527 posts)And here he was -
As a note, the smoke, soot, and ash from the west coast wildfires have traveled along the jetstream and are currently flowing over the PA area including Philadelphia. We have been "treated" to a yellow haze during the day and night for the past couple days. There's a yellow haze out there this morning and you can actually faintly smell burnt wood (almost like from a fireplace).
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@joekaczmarek
West coast wild fires provide an eerie sunset in Philadelphia 9.14.2020 #wildfires
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7:24 PM · Sep 14, 2020
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@VictorSaulFdez
Philadelphia under the effects of the wildfires in the West. #Philadelphia #wildfires #sunrise #delawareriver
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9:30 AM · Sep 15, 2020 from Philadelphia, PA