Saturday, January 3, 2015

No Friend to the Environment: Republican Representative Luke Messer, Indiana's 6th Congressional District


  Photo sourceU.S. Congress
Text sourceU.S. Congressman Luke Messer

Messer was re-elected to a 2nd term with 66% of the vote.   He serves on no environmental committees.

Recommended reading for Rep. Messer and his southeastern Indiana constituents.

Climate change warming Kentucky, Indiana, report says.  (Louisville Courier-Journal, 5/7/2014)
 
No Friend to the Environment dishonor roll.

Alabama Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives.   (Their anti-environmentalism can be summed up in one word:  coal.  Which is odd, since Alabama contributes a mere 1.9% of U.S. production, good enough for an overall ranking of 13.  The state's peak year of production:  1990)  
Alaska Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
  • At-large District.  Don Young (R).   Ridiculed environmentalists as a “self-centered bunch of waffle-stomping, Harvard-graduating, intellectual idiots.....not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans.” 
 Arizona Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
Arkansas Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
California Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
Colorado Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
No House Republicans hail from Connecticut and Delaware. 
Florida Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
Georgia's Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
 Idaho's Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
 Illinois' Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
 Indiana's Congressional delegation:  U.S. House of Representatives
  • 2nd District.  Jackie Walorski (R).  That’s My Congress” notes Rep. Walorski has followed a conservative course when voting on environmental legislation -- and everything else, for that matter.   Earned a 0% rating from the League of Conservation Voters after her first year in the House.
  • 3rd District.  Martin Stutzman (R).  Signed Americans for Prosperity’s “No Climate Tax Pledge” a month before being sworn in as a member of Congress in 2010. 
  • 4th District.  Todd Rokita (R).  This climate change denier respects "God's green earth".  Anyone who thinks otherwise is arrogant.
  • 5th District.  Susan Brooks (R).  The Walorski summary fits Brooks to a T. 
  • 6th District.  Luke Messer (R).   Considers climate change a social issue.

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