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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts)
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 07:07 AM Jun 2014

Senator Tim Scott Attempts to Build Support for Offshore Oil Drilling Legislation With Pictures of W

http://www.republicreport.org/2014/tim-scott-windmills/



Senator Tim Scott Attempts to Build Support for Offshore Oil Drilling Legislation With Pictures of Windmills
Posted at 8:29 pm by Lee Fang

How do you sell offshore oil drilling to a public that has grown skeptical after years of spills and deadly disasters?

U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) has a website promoting the four pillars of his policy agenda. On energy, the Scott site features the Southern Energy Access Jobs Act (SEA Jobs Act), which would reverse “the Obama administration’s moratorium on offshore Atlantic energy production and create one single ‘South Atlantic’ offshore energy planning area, comprised of South Carolina, North Carolina Georgia, and Virginia.” Offshore drilling lobbyists, including National Ocean Industries Association president Randall B. Luthi, have called Scott’s effort to open up more of the Outer Continental Shelf for oil and gas drilling a “giant leap” in the right direction.

To build public support, Scott has a less than straight forward way of depicting his fossil fuel-friendly bill.

The senator’s website shows the following image of windmills for the SEA Jobs Act. See a screenshot below:



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Senator Tim Scott Attempts to Build Support for Offshore Oil Drilling Legislation With Pictures of W (Original Post) unhappycamper Jun 2014 OP
I hear he is up for Senate seat this November yeoman6987 Jun 2014 #1
 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
1. I hear he is up for Senate seat this November
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 07:42 AM
Jun 2014

Again, I have not heard a thing about the Democratic challenger. We need to have these easy seats so that we can keep the Senate. I hope it is just early and we will be seeing some of these Republicans being voted out by the Democrats. I keep hearing that the Democratic Party is going to lose the Senate in November........well if we don't fight for these seats, it may happen. There is ZERO reason to lose the Senate from the worst Republicans in history. So far, it seems the only seat the the Democratic Party is fighting is McConnell's seat. There are a lot more than that.

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