[lbo-talk] Haley Barbour's record on Kyoto

Marta Russell ap888 at lafn.org
Mon Sep 5 13:15:53 PDT 2005



>> AMY GOODMAN: Ross Gelbspan, I wanted to get your response to a
>> piece that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. wrote: "For They That Sow the
>> Wind Shall Reap the Whirlwind." He says, “As Hurricane Katrina
>> dismantles Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, it's worth recalling the
>> central role that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour played in
>> derailing the Kyoto Protocol and kiboshing President Bush’s iron-
>> clad campaign promise to regulate CO2. In March 2001, just two
>> days after EPA administrator Christie Todd Whitman's strong
>> statement affirming Bush's CO2 promise, former RNC Chief Barbour
>> responded with an urgent memo to the White House. Barbour, who had
>> served as RNC Chair and Bush campaign strategist, was now
>> representing the President's major donors from the fossil fuel
>> industry who had enlisted him to map a Bush energy policy that
>> would be friendly to their interest. His credentials insured the
>> new administration's attention.” This is the current Mississippi
>> governor, who has flown over the devastated area and is talking
>> about what a massive disaster it is, comparing it to the
>> destruction of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
>>
>> http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/01/147233

It isn't of course like Hiroshima. Barbour sounds like a Rove devotee. marta


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