Representative Steve Pearce is in hot water for spending 20K for an international junket. That is remarkable given his penchant for not wanting the government to spend money on anything. Frankly though, it doesn't bother me much because even a narrow minded pol like him could learn something on one of those trips.
Here is what the media should be writing about. Pearce's biblical opposition to doing anything about climate change. He thinks it is a ruse by hundreds of thousands of scientists around the world. He is really just protecting his fossil fuel buddies who made him millions in his business and now contribute mightily to his campaign coffers. But, now with the deaths of 19 fire fighters in Arizona who were battling the latest in a string of fires that are changing our landscapes in the west, I wonder what he might say to the wives and children of these front line troops in the climate change stoked fire fights?
Certainly this must bring home to him some sort of soul searching? Or are profits still etched in his brain so strongly that these kind of occurrences just slide right on by like our ever increasing dust storms.
We can't afford men with a lack of consciences like him to serve in elected positions any longer.
Here is what the media should be writing about. Pearce's biblical opposition to doing anything about climate change. He thinks it is a ruse by hundreds of thousands of scientists around the world. He is really just protecting his fossil fuel buddies who made him millions in his business and now contribute mightily to his campaign coffers. But, now with the deaths of 19 fire fighters in Arizona who were battling the latest in a string of fires that are changing our landscapes in the west, I wonder what he might say to the wives and children of these front line troops in the climate change stoked fire fights?
Certainly this must bring home to him some sort of soul searching? Or are profits still etched in his brain so strongly that these kind of occurrences just slide right on by like our ever increasing dust storms.
We can't afford men with a lack of consciences like him to serve in elected positions any longer.
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