{"id":246861,"date":"2010-01-29T13:30:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T18:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=64213"},"modified":"2010-01-29T13:30:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T18:30:31","slug":"blanche-lincoln-calls-league-of-conservation-voters-%e2%80%9cextremists%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/246861","title":{"rendered":"Blanche Lincoln Calls League of Conservation Voters \u201cExtremists\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-64216\" title=\"225px-Lincoln-portrait-2007\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/01\/225px-Lincoln-portrait-2007.jpg\" alt=\"225px-Lincoln-portrait-2007\" width=\"189\" height=\"239\" \/>Yesterday, the League of Conservation Voters designated Blanche Lincoln one of it&#8217;s &#8220;Dirty Dozen&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0110\/32166.html\">for her opposition to the climate bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p><strong>LCV gave the moderate Democrat a lifetime score of 49 percent on environmental issues, the second lowest for any Democrat up for reelection this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost regrettable is the fact that Sen. Lincoln is walking away from her previous support for climate legislation \u2014 and given the scope, urgency and magnitude of this issue, she has more than earned a spot on LCV\u2019s Dirty Dozen,\u201d said Gene Karpinski, LCV president.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Blanche&#8217;s response? <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/e2-wire\/677-e2-wire\/78639-lincoln-responds-to-dirty-dozen-designation\">Punch the hippies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>&#8220;I have built a practical, common-sense record on energy and environmental issues while working closely with Arkansas environmental advocates,&#8221; Lincoln said, in the release.\u00a0 <strong>&#8220;Threats from extremist groups from outside our state tell me I&#8217;m doing something right for Arkansas.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s so incredibly helpful to the Democratic Party to have one of its own use &#8220;liberal&#8221; as a pejorative <a href=\"http:\/\/blancheforsenate.com\/news\/lincoln-i-will-continue-fight-for-energy-policy-that-benefits-arkansas-despite-outside-special-inter\/\">in their press releases.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=64213&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_64213\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the League of Conservation Voters designated Blanche Lincoln one of it&#8217;s &#8220;Dirty Dozen&#8221; for her opposition to the climate bill. LCV gave the moderate Democrat a lifetime score of 49 percent on environmental issues, the second lowest for any Democrat up for reelection this year. \u201cMost regrettable is the fact that Sen. Lincoln is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}