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SEN. STEVE WARNSTADT...
SEN. STEVE WARNSTADT RELEASES REPORT ON JOHN MCCAIN’S TIES TO WASHINGTON LOBBYISTS
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Contact: Brooke Borkenhagen, Press Secretary
515-244-7292 Ext 680 (office)
SEN. STEVE
WARNSTADT RELEASES REPORT ON JOHN MCCAIN’S
TIES TO WASHINGTON LOBBYISTS
McCain Puts Lobbyists Ahead of Iowa-Grown
Renewable Energy
Sioux
City, IA –
On the eve of Sen. John
McCain’s visit to Iowa, State Sen. Steve
Warnstadt held a press conference in Sioux City
to release a new report on Sen. McCain’s ties
to Washington
lobbyists. Sen. Warnstadt
discussed how McCain’s close ties to oil
company lobbyists come at the expense
of Iowa-grown renewable energy and hardworking
Iowa families
who are struggling with record
prices at the pump.
John McCain doesn’t
understand that Iowa is
leading our way
to energy independence. Just yesterday,
a new wind turbine blade plant opened
in Newton,
creating 500 good-paying jobs in our
state. Iowa-produced renewable energy is
critical to Iowa’s economy, producing
$1,000 of
income per Iowa
household, and has created nearly 100,000
jobs throughout the state. John McCain has
opposed tax credits to boost wind
energy industry in our state and he has even
called Iowa ethanol
“highway
robbery.”
This report
entitled “No Reformer: McCain Puts
Lobbyists First While Americans Struggle,”
illustrates that after 26 years in
Washington, John McCain means more of the same
failed Bush policies that put
Exxon Mobil ahead of Iowa-produced renewable
energy. John
McCain says that he'll take on the special
interests
and lobbyists, but eight of his closest
advisors and aides are former
lobbyists.
“Iowans are struggling
with record gas prices and Sen.
McCain’s solution is to slash all investment
in Iowa-grown ethanol and give $4
billion in tax giveaways to big oil
companies,” said State Sen. Steve
Warnstadt. “ Iowa has seen
nearly 1,000 wind energy jobs
created in the last year, but McCain has
opposed the renewable energy tax
credits that helped create them. That's
not the change we want and deserve.
Iowan can’t afford more of the same.”
To view the
full report, click on the following
link: http://www.democrats.org/page/-/pdf/noreformer.pdf.
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