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Parker Griffith (D-AL-5) replied to my email bitching him out for voting against the climate bill. Savor the profusion of Republican talking points and the temperament of old southern White guy thinking:

Thank you for taking the time to contact me concerning the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. I am proud to serve the people of the Fifth District, and your input helps me to better do my job.

I voted against this bill, which passed by a narrow 219-212 margin, because it is not in the best interest of North Alabama. We all agree that we need to take measures to make our nation more energy independent, but this bill does that the wrong way and would end up raising rates and imposing unacceptable new taxes on the companies that power the Tennessee Valley.

Under this bill, power companies in Alabama would be required to generate a certain percentage of the electricity they sell from a rigid definition of “renewable” resources included in this legislation. Unfortunately nuclear power and existing hydroelectricity - two resources from which Alabama benefits greatly - are not included in this definition. This legislation would cripple Alabama utilities with high and swift taxes, forcing them to choose between going out of business or passing the cost onto Tennessee Valley consumers.

We must be focused on creating new jobs and keeping the jobs we have now, and the Clean Energy and Security Act would have the opposite effect and make us less competitive as a region and as a nation.

Again, I thank you for your input on this issue. I encourage you to visit my website at griffith.house.gov to stay updated on my recent activities in Washington. Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance to you.

Sincerely,

Parker Griffith
Member of Congress

I don’t know what would be sadder: selling out his grandchildren for corporate bucks or actually buying those Republican lies. The former would make him a profiteer. The latter would make him a sucker.

Saddest of all, he conceives of his job narrowly and parochially - voting the supposed interests of a small district in a backward state instead of representing the interests of all Americans.

Even more spectacularly, he fails to realize that the utilities in his own district are resellers of power produced by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which turns his argument about power companies going out of business into purest nonsense.

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