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Tue Dec 17, 2019, 12:38 AM Dec 2019

*New Dystopian Climate Change Campaign Video For Dem. Romanoff (CO) Receives High Praise

4-minute Andrew Romanoff campaign ad shows climate change apocalypse: “What I miss most is the sunshine.” Video blames “tired politicians” and status quo for climate disasters. The Denver Post, Dec. 16, 2019.

U.S. Senate Democratic candidate Andrew Romanoff’s first campaign video, released Monday, is a dramatic portrayal of a climate emergency “in the not so distant future.” Romanoff, a former Colorado House speaker, is trying to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, but first he needs to get past former Gov. John Hickenlooper and others in the Democratic primary.

The 4-minute, 16-second apocalyptic video had more than 140,000 views across social media as of Monday afternoon, according to his campaign. “Home,” produced by WIN Digital Media, begins in Colorado Springs with a young girl saying, “what I miss most is the sunshine,” as she and her family are confined in a bunker, avoiding a 127-degree temperature and poor air quality.
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*WATCH*

This place makes me sad,” she said. “But it makes mommy sadder. Mommy says baby brother will be born soon, but that it’s not safe for him or for me.”

The #ClimateCrisis poses a threat unlike any in human history. It’s a catastrophe of our own creation—but it doesn’t have to end this way. We can choose a different path.

Watch & share our new video: pic.twitter.com/km7iYxLmUC

— Andrew Romanoff (@Romanoff2020) December 16, 2019
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in the video, Romanoff says the view is not a far-off future.

“This is the clear and present danger to life on earth, a catastrophe of our own creation, a climate crisis that condemns our children to an ever-hotter planet, their only home ravaged by storms, floods, droughts and heat waves, wildfires, disasters that force millions of families to flee,” he said...

More, https://www.denverpost.com/2019/12/16/andrew-romanoff-climate-change-senate-gardner/



Andrew Romanoff, Colorado Democrat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Romanoff
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