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February 26th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
In 2008, Rep. Bruce Goforth was one of 12 NC house members and five senators named to a “Dirty Dozen” and a “Filthy Five” by the Conservation Council for being “just awful on the environment.” Now that Patsy Keever is challenging him for the Democratic nomination for the House 115 seat, however, Goforth is attempting to “greenwash” his legislative record. At the eleventh hour, he has introduced steep slopes legislation that is too little, too late . . . not to mention too transparent.
February 27th, 2010 at 9:43 am
GoForth and find a new career path.
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February 27th, 2010 at 10:29 am
How nice of Mr Goforth to consider slope legislation! Too bad no one is pushing Mr Shuler to the left.
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February 28th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
The Conservation Council gave Rep. Goforth a grade of 86 out of 100 for the 2008 legislative session, which is pretty darn good. The “dirty dozen” and “filthy five” designations referred to above are from 2007. As a matter of fact, the Conservation Council COMMENDED Goforth for his improvement and offered their “heartfelt thanks”!!! (The scorecard and their “thank you” to Goforth and two others is on their website, conservationcouncilnc.org, in PDF form.)If Goforth scored an 86 in 2008, it would seem that his “greenwashing” is not as recent as Bruce Mulkey suggests in his comment above. Mr. Mulkey, you might want to check your facts before you post, or were you “bending” the information to suit your purposes?
I support Goforth’s steep slope proposal. I’m all for “greenwashing” no matter what the motivation. I’ve seen no indication that Patsy Keever would make a better state representative. I just keep hearing that she is a very nice person and was a good teacher. That’s not enough to qualify her for elected office, in my opinion.
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March 1st, 2010 at 9:38 am
OK, I was imprecise in earlier my post: In 2008, the Conservation Council designated Rep. Bruce Goforth a member of the “Dirty Dozen” in the state house for the 2007 legislative session since Goforth had a score of 38 out of 100 for his votes on environmental bills during that session. It’s true that Rep. Goforth scored an 86 out of 100 for his environmental votes the 2008 short legislative session. Thus, the Conservation Council gave him an average of 62 for 2007-2008, not a passing grade for that period as far as I’m concerned. Check all this out for yourself at http://www.conservationcouncilnc.org/our-work/scorecards/scorecard_2008.pdf.
Furthermore, Sue Two might want to learn the meaning of greenwashing: The dissemination of misleading information by an individual or organization to conceal its abuse of the environment in order to present a positive public image. This term is used when an individual or organization gets a makeover to look more ecologically friendly without really changing anything.
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