Articles by David Roberts
David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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Pennsylvania Green
Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) is in trouble. His Dem opponent, Robert Casey Jr., is ahead in the polls. All signs point to a humiliating loss this November.
So apparently the Pennsylvania Republican Party thought it would be a good idea to gin up a Green Party campaign, to siphon off Dem votes.
This has been mostly speculation until now, but over at TPMMuckraker, they've done due diligence and discovered that every single contributor to the Penn. Green campaign is a conservative -- except one. Who's the one? The candidate himself.
I'm just saying.
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Congress and global warming
This is mentioned in the Daily Grist, but Darren Samuelsohn has a great piece of reporting in Greenwire today. Juicy insider tidbits abound. It's paid-subscription-only, so I'm poaching it for you to read here:
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Pombo’s staff v. Connecticut
Rep. Richard "Dick" Pombo (R-Calif.) is a big proponent of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. So, apparently, are his staffers. When an editorial appeared in a Connecticut paper opposing the latest effort to drill the Refuge, senior Pombo advisor Daniel Kish had this to say:
Connecticut should have its statehood taken away from it. The foolishness of its pampered residents should be demonstrated to others by a government program to bulldoze the entire state, salt the land and construct a windfarm to supply NYC with electricity. And its residents should be relocated to Guantanamo Bay where they can take a number behind the 3 who hung themselves this weekend, since they seem so intent on suicide.
Lovely.
(via Stakeholder)
Update [2006-8-2 12:53:37 by David Roberts]: The Roll Call story is subscription-only, so here's the full bit from today's gossip column:
