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

[Marta Russell]

>> 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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