League of Conservation Voters

The Beacon: The League of Women Voters "has announced that it has 'launched a seven-figure television ad campaign calling public attention to the votes by Senator Scott Brown, R-Mass, and Senator Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., earlier this month to block new air pollution standards. The accountability ads call on both Senators to protect the people, not the polluters.'"

Here's the spot, via Roll Call:

The League of Conservation Voters launched a new website and web video today at FlatEarth.tv focusing on the incredible refusal of Republican candidates to come to terms with basic science about climate change and global warming.  “These candidates are full-fledged global warming deniers and in most cases, are backed by Big Oil and other corporate polluters,” said LCV President Gene Karpinski. 

Roy Blunt's April 2009 statement to Human Events, "There isn’t any real science to say we are altering the climate path of the earth," is featured prominently in the spoof.  Watch it:

As summarized by the Post-Dispatch's Bill Lambrecht:

[League of Conservation Voters Action Fund's Tony Massaro] said his group's survey turned up a bit of a surprise: A plurality of voters endorsing climate change legislation in Congress.

Here's how the question was asked, followed by the results:

Here are some laws passed in at least one House of Congress in the past two years. Please tell me whether you approve or disapprove of each one:

The plan to encourage clean energy production known as cap-and-trade.

Approve: 45 percent. Disapprove 40 percent.

With voters mostly concerned most about the economy, Massaro said, a primary mission is persuading Missourians of the economic benefits of green technology  -- and in so doing influencing how they vote.

A new ad from the League of Conservation Voters was posted to their YouTube account last night.

The ad features footage from this KSPR interview conducted last November during which Roy Blunt made the absurd claim that this sort of television ad was "a way to violate – it's a way to get around the campaign finance laws." It's worth remembering Blunt's disgust and outrage with all third-party advertisements as we prepare for the big media buys to come.

SEIU, VoteVets, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Sierra Club launched a new TV campaign this morning with an initial $2 million buy. There are two versions of the ad - the one above praises senators like Claire McCaskill for supporting energy reform legislation. Alternate versions in North Carolina, North Carolina and Nebraksa criticize senators of both parties who voted against energy reform.

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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