League of Conservation Voters

The League of Conservation Voters named Roy Blunt to their "Dirty Dozen" list and launched BigOilBlunt.com today to call attention to his "abysmal" lifetime LCV environmental score.  From the website: 

How did Big Oil Blunt earn this dubious distinction?

• By voting against 35,000 clean energy jobs for Missouri… three times (twice in committee and once the House floor).
• By taking more than $1 million in campaign cash from Big Oil and energy special interests.
• By voting to maintain tax breaks and subsidies for polluting corporations while Missourians paid record prices at the pump.

Happy to spar with Roy Blunt about their "Stain" ad, the League of Conservation Voters launched a new radio ad today titled "Forgot." Listen:

With the new spot, the LCV also breaks down Blunt's opposition to meaningful climate legislation in Congress: 

Contrary to Rep. Blunt’s claims, the American Clean Energy & Security Act, which the congressman voted against when it passed the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this year, would help create nearly 36,000 clean energy jobs in Missouri. [2] The legislation would also reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil and place limits on harmful carbon pollution. (Rep. Blunt also voted against in the American Clean Energy & Security Act when it passed out of the House Energy & Commerce Committee.)

Speaking with KSPR and KY3 last week week, Roy Blunt expressed grave concern with a recent ad from the League of Conservation Voters criticizing his ties to big oil and energy interests and opposition to the clean energy legislation before Congress this year. In both interviews, Blunt suggested that the issue ads circumvented campaign finance laws that limit total donations to a candidate campaign.  On KSPR, he said:

The money you can spend on ads like this are unlimited, so it's an interesting way to kind of get around the campaign finance law...

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