Political Quotes

“I thank the Presiding Officer. I appreciate that courtesy. Blocking action on climate has been the central focus of the Chamber's campaign spending. It ran this ad in Pennsylvania in 2016. Two moms watch their children on a playground. One comments on how much energy the children have. The other says: Oh, don't say that. The candidate wants to tax that energy. The ad gets even weirder when a faceless woman arrives in a car and steps out toward the children. Alarmed, one of the mothers yells the ad's punch line: ``Run, Jimmy. Run.'' Classy stuff. I wonder who the Chamber was fronting for. So how does the Chamber's anti-climate crusade square with its big corporate members? It has members like Coke and Pepsi, which have good internal climate policies and websites that are full of commitments to reduce corporate carbon footprints, and they have signed letters on climate action. Pepsi signed the Ceres BICEP Climate Declaration. Coke plans to reduce CO<INF>2</INF> emissions by 25 percent. It says it ``will work to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain, making comprehensive carbon footprint reductions across its manufacturing processes, packaging formats, delivery fleet, refrigeration equipment and ingredient sourcing.'' Yet both Coke and Pepsi fund the Chamber of Commerce, and they fund the American Beverage Association, which, in turn, runs more money to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The end result?…”