Monday, April 6, 2015

No Friend to the Environment: Republican Representative Scott Perry, Pennsylvania's 4th Congressional District


Photo sourceU.S. Congress
Quote source:   YDR Politics

Rep. Perry was re-elected to a 2nd term in 2014 with 75% of the vote.  

Recommended reading for Rep. Perry and constituents in his south-central Pennsylvania district.

Climate change will have impact on Pennsylvania vineyards.  (Pennlive, 4/23/2013)
For example, he said that in 2002 the earliest the buds on the grape vines broke – an indicator of the grape growing season – on April 17.   Last year, it occurred March 30. As [Carl] Helrich [owner of Allegro Winery and Vineyards] points out, that is about an18-day difference in a matter of a decade. 

“I tell most of the people who come through our building if climate change is real, just ask a farmer. It takes all of the politics out of it … It is a change going on for sure,” he said. 
5% lifetime score from the League of Conservation Voters.

No Friend to the Environment dishonor roll.

Alabama Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives.   (Their anti-environmentalism can be summed up in one world:  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)  
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  • 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.” 
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