Monday, December 8, 2014

No Friend to the Environment: Republican Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida's 27th Congressional District


  Photo sourceU.S. Congress
Text sourceMiami Herald

Ros-Lehtinen was re-elected to a 14th term with 60% of the vote.   No environmental committee assignments.

Her 2013 score from the League of Conservation Voters (7%) vs. her lifetime score (37%) points to the increasingly lockstep approach Republicans have taken on environmental issues.  There is no room for moderation, for compromise.


No Friend to the Environment dishonor roll.

Alabama Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives.   (Their anti-environmentalism can be summed up in one word:  coal.  Which is odd, since Alabama contributes a mere 1.9% of U.S. production, good enough for an overall ranking of 13.  The state's peak year of production:  1990)  
Alaska Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
  • At-large District.  Don Young (R).   Ridiculed environmentalists as a “self-centered bunch of waffle-stomping, Harvard-graduating, intellectual idiots.....not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans.” 
 Arizona Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
Arkansas Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
California Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
Colorado Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
No House Republicans hail from Connecticut and Delaware. 
Florida Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives

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