Yep they funded the fence and built it. Oh wait, they took the money back they were only kidding.
Posted on 07/31/2012 6:36:51 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Romney and his super PAC have taken millions from funders with strong green streaks — despite the fact that the former Massachusetts governor has run to the right in the primary, proclaiming doubts about global-warming science and trashing President Barack Obama’s greenhouse gas emissions policies.
Julian Robertson, founder of the Tiger Management hedge fund, helped put cap-and-trade legislation on the map with $60 million in contributions over the past decade to the Environmental Defense Fund.
Now, Robertson has given $1.25 million to Romney’s Restore our Future super PAC, plus the maximum $2,500 to the Romney campaign.
Other green-minded financial backers may not be giving as much as Robertson, but they still share the view that climate-change science and a solid environmental agenda wouldn’t be a lost cause if Romney won the White House.
“My feeling is that on these issues that people learn,” said former Gov. Thomas Kean (R-N.J.), who maxed out last fall to Romney with a $2,500 check. “And my hope is, as time goes on, he will understand that not everybody agrees on how you deal with these issues, but I hope he will agree with 99 percent of the scientists who believe this is an issue that we have to deal with.”
As president, Kean said he hoped Romney could duplicate his Beacon Hill successes in building coalitions with Democrats on issues such as energy and the environment. In addition, Kean noted that Romney wouldn’t face the same gridlocked climate debate of recent years, in large part because of the boom in domestic natural gas production that’s helped lower the nation’s greenhouse gas emission levels. “The whole game has changed,” Kean said.
Rob Sisson, president of the Republicans for Environmental Protection, said he’s scraping together personal funds to write a check to the Romney campaign after getting a chance to meet him for the first time last month during a town hall campaign stop in Kalamazoo, Mich.
“I think his record as governor was pretty good as far as Republicans go,” said Sisson, who also gave $1,000 last June to Jon Huntsman’s campaign. “I really get the sense from him and the folks around him with whom I’ve spoken that as president he’d really look at each situation, gather the data and really make a decision that’s best for the country.”
“If that goes against the grain of how he’s campaigning now, so be it,” Sisson added. “He’s going to be driven by data and facts and not emotions and getting pushed into one corner by one faction of the party.”
Among the other green Romney donors is Texas businessman and philanthropist Trammell S. Crow, founder of Earth Day Dallas and winner of the Republicans for Environmental Protection’s Green Elephant Award in 2007. Crow and his family have given $71,000 this cycle to Republicans, including $15,000 to the Republican National Committee and $5,000 to Romney, according to donation data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.
“I am voting for Mitt Romney and I believe in global warming,” Crow said in a statement to POLITICO.
Of course, for every green-minded GOP donor, there’s a large segment of supporters pushing Romney in another direction on energy issues. Campaigning Thursday in North Dakota, Romney tapped Harold Hamm, an Oklahoma oil billionaire and a major GOP contributor, to head his campaign’s energy advisory panel. There’s also William Koch, founder of Oxbow Corp., a West Palm Beach, Fla.-based energy firm that’s given $1 million to Romney’s super PAC.
A former George W. Bush administration energy official unaffiliated with any campaign said green-minded donors won’t change Romney’s message. “If he were getting contributions from some of the guys who contribute to our president, some of the street activists, Bill Ayers, I’d be worried. But that doesn’t worry me,” the official said.
Others are raising expectations because of heavy-hitting Republican donors such as Robertson.
Continue Reading Text Size - + reset Listen “If for some climate advocates the influence of money in politics does not give pause, then such advocates can hope that Robertson will use his access and influence with the Romney team to shift the candidate’s position on climate change should Romney win the GOP nomination, and especially if he makes it to the White House,” American University professor Matthew Nisbet wrote last month on his blog.
If Romney won, Nisbet concluded that Robertson’s role as an EDF trustee and major donor “should give the organization significant access to the Oval Office.”
Robertson isn’t trying to buy access, said his spokesman Fraser Seitel.
“The reasons he’s supporting Romney are very simple,” Seitel said. “In his view, Romney is smart enough, moral enough and fit enough to run the country.”
“In terms of the environment and climate-change controls, which he does believe is one of the most important issues the country and the world faces, he has confidence that Romney, once he’s in there, will do the right thing,” Seitel added.
Green-minded donors have also shelled out to other GOP presidential candidates this cycle.
Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, a longtime Nature Conservancy board member, gave the maximum $2,500 to Huntsman last summer. Former White House Counsel C. Boyden Gray gave $2,500 to Huntsman and then followed up with the same amount in January to Romney after Huntsman left the race. Bill Doré, a semi-retired energy consultant, has donated more than $1 million to the super PAC boosting Rick Santorum’s presidential campaign.
Doré made his fortune in the pipeline and offshore drilling equipment business. But for years, Doré, now 69, also butted heads with the oil and gas industry in his native Louisiana. Not only did he sue multiple oil companies for polluting 9,000 acres of marshland he had leased to them for drilling, but he also was a leading backer of bills in the Louisiana Legislature to protect other landowners’ ability to file similar so-called legacy site suits.
“I am absolutely sure that he lost friends over that,” said Butch Gautreaux, a former Democratic state senator who sponsored legislation on the issue backed by Doré.
Gautreaux, who received at least $2,500 in campaign contributions from Doré, told POLITICO that Doré “not only put himself on the line, but he also spent a lot of money doing engineering studies backing what he was alleging at the time.”
Before this year, Doré had given $637,000 in federal and state contributions, split about equally between the parties. His biggest contributions had been to the Republican Governors Association ($50,000 in 2010) and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee ($28,500 in 2008) — which, interestingly, had helped defeat Santorum in 2006.
Doré did not respond to repeated requests for comment about his political views or motivation for donating to the super PAC supporting Santorum, who has pushed for expanded oil drilling and hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas.
But Gautreaux, who said he considers himself “good friends” with Doré, called him “an oil and gas environmentalist” and said his political involvement is motivated by a sense of “doing what you believe is the right thing to do for the right reason.”
You are showing your liberal tendencies again. The thought of going to JimRob to tell him how to run his business has never crossed my mind once in the last 14 years. We are all his guests. I have my own website www.OurtownFLA.com . I spend more time here than on my own. It’s 10 times more interesting. I wish Jim would give me some advice on mine.
Make no mistake. The Vichy Republican scum will sell us out so fast it will make your head spin.
Yep they funded the fence and built it. Oh wait, they took the money back they were only kidding.
Come back and tell us how they held their ground, after the election. There is more to fear from the Lame Duck Senate coming up, than I café to mull on.
You took the words right out of my mouth! What’s left to say, but that it’s pretty clear why the Republican Party has found it so easy to put up now a socialist at the top of our ticket. A cakewalk, really.
You took the words right out of my mouth! What’s left to say, but that it’s pretty clear why the Republican Party has found it so easy to put up now a socialist at the top of our ticket. A cakewalk, really.
To: Jim RobinsonThere will be consequences for the Republican leadership and the “conservative” media who supported liberal Mitt Romney and for those that allow the majority conservative vote to be split 3 ways. Speaker Gingrich, leading by large margins in all national polls, every Southern State and most crucial States, looks likely to win the nomination with our Florida delegation stripped of half of it’s delegates, sitting way back in the last row, cheering the liberal, while at the same time hosting the Convention. et tu FLA?
18 posted on Sunday, January 29, 2012 5:11:23 PM by ynotjjr (Gingrich/Rubio 2012 It's called the Constitution. Learn it, live it, love it!)
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I don’t want respect from the likes of you, Obama and your boss Val Jarrett. You surrender monkeys who’s dream it is to hold the door of the White house open when Obama returns from his second swearing in ceremony, as you bow in reverence. You talk about being ProLife when you really want Jarret and Obama putting a couple thirty something on the Supreme Court there by locking in abortions for another 30 years. You and your little wolf pack jumping from thread to thread, day after day attacking our side has been exposed for what it is, unconditional surrender.
"Our Side", he says. And earlier he bemoaned the "conservative" media shilling for LIBERAL ROMNEY, and he cried at Florida perhaps supporting the LIBERAL himself, Mitt Romney.
And he calls all of us independent conservatives "surrender monkeys".
Ping, to make a poster of this!
Great Flag. I “borrowed” it. :>)
Really?
You do know that Romney is PRO abortion - right?
You do know that Romney is PRO homosexual agenda - right?
You do know that Romney is PRO gun grab - right?
You do know that Romney is PRO government health care mandate - right?
You do know that Romney is PRO big government - right?
You do know that Romney is PRO liberal nearly everything - right?
You do know that Romney appointed only liberal judges when he was governor - right?
You do know that your view that Romney is a conservative is - WRONG - right?
Interesting.
Apparently anyone who disagrees with you, is a liberal.
Hum, isn’t that like when liberals say you disagree with me you are a hate monger and bigot?
I’m flattered. In our Country we have things called Primaries, they are like the playoffs before the World Series. Yes, I supported I was for Mitt, then I was personally enlightened by JimRob and I supported Gov. Palin. When she refused to run I leaned to the Texas Gov then Cain, then Gingrich then Santorum, I may be forgetting somebody but Mitt Romney won and he is our nominee to go up against President Obama in the World Series. You want us to go with the Toledo Mudhens because you don’t mind losing to Obama in fact, I think people like you enjoy defeat because it means you never have to say “I’m responsible” For example, who did you support in the Primary, could it be Ron Paul?? Thought so. Don’t worry, we will do the heavy lifting and take care of Obama without you light weights. Good luck with your Mudhens.
Really? These are the Big Ten Obama Fans working behind the lines helping B. Hussein Obama get reelected for 4more years? You should be so proud, maybe you will get a Christmas Card...eh, maybe a Red Star. You do know that Finney is helping B. Hussein Obama get reelected for 4more years? You do know that Yashcheritsiy is helping B. Hussein Obama get reelected for 4more years? You do know that Fishtank is helping B. Hussein Obama get reelected for 4more years? You do know that muawiyah is helping B. Hussein Obama get reelected for 4more years? You do know that SoConPubbie is helping B. Hussein Obama get reelected for 4more years? You do know that Tennessee Nana is helping B. Hussein Obama get reelected for 4more years?
You do know that xzins is helping B. Hussein Obama get reelected for 4more years? You do know that ForAmerica is helping B. Hussein Obama get reelected for 4more years? You do know that RitaOK is helping B. Hussein Obama get reelected for 4more years? You do know that Cripplecreek is helping B. Hussein Obama get reelected for 4more years?
I agree. I refer to them as the spam posse. You left a few out. I have watched many of them destroy each candidate running up to this primary. You know the ones I’m talking about. All you have to do is watch them ping each other. Thanks for standing up on this.
Thanks PA, I saw on a recent thread wear where Tenn Nana posted about a dozen times before anyone noticed, basically ignored her. I though if I did that I would have had the time for all those projects I never have time to do! Instead I think I’ll just repost this when they rear their foolish heads.
Records since birth! You may not like/approve the data, and that’s OK, but at least they are available. A refreshing concept.
Personal Information:
His full Name is: Willard Mitt Romney
He was Born: March 12, 1947 and is 65 years old.
His Father: George W. Romney, former Governor of the State of Michigan
He was raised in Bloomfield Hills , Michigan
He is Married to Ann Romney since 1969; they five children.
Education:
B.A. from Brigham Young University,
J.D. and M.B.A. from Harvard University
Religion:
Mormon - The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints
Working Background:
After high school, he spent 30 months in France as a Mormon missionary.
After going to both Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School simultaneously, he passed the Michigan bar exam, but never worked as an attorney.
In 1984, he co-founded Bain Capital a private equity investment firm, one of the largest such firms in the United States .
In 1994, he ran for Senator of Massachusetts and lost to Ted Kennedy.
He was President and CEO of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.
In 2002, he was elected Governor of the State of Massachusetts where he eliminated a 1.5 billion deficit.
Some Interesting Facts about Romney:
Bain Capital, starting with one small office supply store in Massachusetts, turned it into Staples; now over 2,000 stores employing 90,000 people.
Bain Capital also worked to perform the same kinds of business miracles again and again, with companies like Domino’s, Sealy, Brookstone, Weather Channel, Burger King, Warner Music Group, Dollarama, Home Depot Supply, and many others.
He was an unpaid volunteer campaign worker for his dad’s gubernatorial campaign 1 year.
He was an unpaid intern in his dad’s governor’s office for eight years.
He was an unpaid bishop and state president of his church for ten years.
He was an unpaid President of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee for three years.
He took no salary and was the unpaid Governor of Massachusetts for four years.
He gave his entire inheritance from his father to charity.
Mitt Romney is one of the wealthiest self-made men in our country but has given more back to its citizens in terms of money, service and time than most men.
And in 2011 Mitt Romney gave over $4 million to charity, almost 19% of his income.... Just for comparison purposes, Obama gave 1% and Joe Biden gave $300 or .0013%.
Mitt Romney is Trustworthy:
He will show us his birth certificate
He will show us his high school and college transcripts.
He will show us his social security card.
He will show us his law degree.
He will show us his draft notice.
He will show us his medical records.
He will show us his income tax records.
He will show us he has nothing to hide.
Mitt Romney’s background, experience and trustworthiness show him to be a great leader and an excellent citizen for President of the United States.
You may think that Romney may not be the best representative the Republicans could have selected. At least I know what religion he is, and that he won’t desecrate the flag, bow down to foreign powers, or practice fiscal irresponsibility. I know he has the ability to turn this financial debacle that the current regime has gotten us into. We won’t like all the things necessary to recover from this debt, but someone with Romney’s background can do it. But, on the minus side, He never was a “Community Organizer”, never took drugs or smoked pot, never got drunk, did not associate with communists or terrorists, nor did he attend a church whose pastor called for God to damn the US.
You should know the difference between the men running for America’s top office.
Does Obama/Biden deserve 4 more years?
Thanks again. Saved. Will also post against the obama spamming posse. My choice was Sarah (first). Our choice is obvious this election.
Well, sweetie now we all know you are avoiding Romney’s record as a liberal.
Deal with facts, only liberals avoid them.
Accusations are easy when you have no substance.
Romney is a pro abortion liberal, you want to support him fine, just don’t capitulate to the truth.
And he supports abortion
gun grabs
government mandates
tax increases
homosexual agenda
government health care
Romney is a liberal, don’t forget that part.
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