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Re: A new plan to help stop climate change could be Earth's last chance - Inslee

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On 3/2/2019 8:42 PM, kensi wrote:
> Humanity is facing catastrophe as climate change causes the Earth to warm:
> 
> https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/02/28/does-carbon-tax-credit-hold-key-fixing-climate-change/2589582002/ 
> 
> 
> Why climate change is an all-encompassing threat
> 
> Although a candidate just entered the 2020 presidential race with a 
> platform centered on climate change, some experts say Americans aren't 
> fully aware of the danger:

Hey kensi, why did you not even say his name!!!

And this should be a happy day for all who believe
global warming is mankind caused and it's correction
should be our Number #1 priority:

You finally have a POTUS Candidate who believes with you!
So now, who will put their actions and money where their
talk has been?

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/jay-inslee-announces-climate-focused-2020-presidential-run-does-he-stand-a-chance/

Jay Inslee announces climate-focused 2020 presidential run.
Does he stand a chance?
Originally published March 1, 2019 at 4:00 am Updated March 1, 2019 at 
5:25 pm

Gov. Jay Inslee announces his 2020 candidacy for  president at a Friday 
news conference at A&R Solar in Seattle. His family, at right, cheers 
him on. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
Washington State Gov. Jay Inslee gives family friend, Myrna Hume, a hug 
after he announced his 2020 candidacy for president at a Friday news 
conference at A&R Solar in Seattle. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
Gov. Jay Inslee embraces his brothers Frank, left, and Todd, after 
announcing his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination Friday 
morning in Seattle. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)

Gov. Jay Inslee shakes hands with employees at A&R Solar, where on 
Friday morning he announced a presidential candidacy based primarily on 
the issue of fighting climate change. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
Jay Inslee and his wife, Trudi Inslee, were high-school sweethearts who 
went on to marry and raise three sons together.  (Ellen M. Banner / The 
Seattle Times)
A crowd gathers at A&R Solar in South Seattle on Friday ahead of Gov. 
Jay Inslee’s launch of his presidential campaign. The location fit with 
Inslee’s “green” values and his emphasis on combating climate change. 
(Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times)
On a trip to New Hampshire in January, Gov. Jay Inslee met with students 
at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in 
Manchester. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)

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Gov. Jay Inslee announces his 2020 candidacy for president at a Friday 
news conference at A&R Solar in Seattle. His family, at right, cheers 
him on. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)

The Democratic governor will campaign in Iowa and Nevada next week. He 
has signaled that he does not intend to give up his current job, leaving 
open the option of seeking re-election to a third term if the White 
House bid flops.

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Jim Brunner By Jim Brunner
Seattle Times political reporter
Gov. Jay Inslee entered the 2020 presidential race Friday, launching a 
longshot campaign with a focused message that he’s the only candidate 
who would make defeating climate change the nation’s top priority.

In a short video announcing his candidacy, Inslee repeats what has 
become his signature slogan in recent years: “We’re the first generation 
to feel the sting of climate change, and we’re the last that can do 
something about it.”

Over images of fire-scorched landscapes and flooding, Inslee said the 
nation must rise to the challenge, portraying a clean-energy revolution 
as a potential win for the economy and the environment.

[Related | Jay Inslee’s political career: From part-time, small-town 
prosecutor to presidential candidate]

Jay Inslee's presidential pitch is that everything is awesome here. Just 
don't look too closely | Danny Westneat

“We have an opportunity to transform our economy, run on 100 percent 
clean energy, that will bring millions of good paying jobs to every 
community across America, and create a more just future for everyone,” 
he says in the video.

The two-term Democratic governor kicked off his campaign Friday morning 
at news conference at A&R Solar, a Seattle solar-installation company 
that employs 70 workers. He plans to leave the state for national media 
interviews, and will campaign in Iowa Tuesday and in Nevada later in the 
week.

The determination to tackle climate change is nothing new for Inslee, as 
his video conveys with TV clips of him speaking on the issue over 
decades. He championed clean energy as a member of Congress and 
co-authored a 2007 book calling for a national campaign of research and 
deployment on the level of the U.S. Apollo program, which sent people to 
the moon, to push the nation’s economy away from dependence on fossil fuels.

Inslee’s national ambitions have been evident for more than a year. He 
spent 2018 as chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, 
traveling the country to help elect fellow Democrats while making 
valuable connections with national political donors and operatives.

His rhetoric has turned increasingly toward national concerns, including 
vocal opposition to President Donald Trump’s environmental-regulation 
rollbacks and efforts to ban refugees from mostly Muslim nations. In a 
televised visit to the White House last year, Inslee garnered attention 
by standing and telling Trump, who favored a plan to arm schoolteachers, 
to consider “a little less tweeting … and a little more listening.”

While pursuing the nation’s highest office, Inslee has signaled that he 
does not intend to give up his current job, for which he is paid 
$177,000 a year. He has left open the option of seeking re-election to a 
third term if the White House bid flops.

Already a dozen others have announced their candidacies, including 
Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, of Vermont, and Democrats Sen. Kamala 
Harris, of California, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, of Massachusetts, and 
former San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro. Other Democratic heavy hitters 
are reportedly weighing entering the race soon, including former Vice 
President Joe Biden and ex-Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke.

Inslee, 68, is an ex-congressman and state legislator who was elected 
governor in 2012, defeating then-state Attorney General Rob McKenna. He 
was re-elected to a second term in 2016, with 54 percent of the vote.

As governor, Inslee generally has pursued a liberal agenda, backing 
minimum-wage increases, higher taxes on the wealthy and businesses, 
raises for teachers and state government employees and declaring a 
moratorium on the death penalty. He also backed a record-setting, $8.7 
billion tax-break deal to lure Boeing’s 777 plant and angered labor 
leaders by pressuring the Machinists union to approve a contract that 
ended workers’ defined-benefit pension plan.

He also has pushed an ambitious climate agenda, with mixed results, 
failing to persuade lawmakers and voters to adopt pollution fees on 
carbon emissions, but boosting electric-car infrastructure and creating 
a clean-energy fund that has poured millions into green projects. 
Despite Inslee’s agenda, greenhouse emissions in Washington have 
continued to rise, missing near-term reduction goals set in state law.

Washington Republican Party Chairman Caleb Heimlich slammed Inslee’s 
national ambitions and record Thursday, pointing to management scandals 
at the Department of Corrections and Western State Hospital, rising 
homelessness and traffic congestion.

“Taxpayers are plagued by real issues that Inslee and his administration 
refuse to address. Governor Inslee should do the people of Washington 
State a favor and resign while he pursues his vanity run for the White 
House. That way, we can have a governor who actually cares about the 
needs of the people in this Washington,” Heimlich said in a written 
statement.

Inslee’s announcement comes at nearly the halfway point of the 
Legislature’s scheduled 105-day session. Lawmakers are tasked with 
negotiating and sending a new state operating budget to the governor’s 
desk for approval.

After years of seeing major elements of the governor’s carbon-reduction 
agenda stall, Democratic lawmakers are making a big push on Inslee’s 
latest climate-change proposals. On Friday, the Senate approved a bill 
requested by the governor to phase out the use of fossil fuels by 
Washington utilities by 2045.

Inslee’s bid could motivate Democrats to approve the governor’s 
climate-change proposals, said state Sen. Doug Ericksen, R-Ferndale, “to 
help shore up his liberal credentials.”

“I think that the Democrat primary is shaping up to be a race to the 
left, so I think Jay is going to want to get some success stories where 
he can say ‘look how left I took Washington,’ ” said Ericksen, a vocal 
critic of the governor’s climate proposals over the years.

With the announcement, Inslee becomes the first Washington politician to 
seek the presidency since Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson ran in 1976, 
beginning as a top contender but losing the Democratic nomination to 
ex-Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter, who was elected president.

Seattle-based political consultant Frank Greer, who has advised several 
presidential campaigns, said Inslee brings some positives to the 2020 
race, including that he’s the first sitting governor to run.

“People like to elect governors,” Greer said. “And people perceive 
Washington state as a success story.”

Washington ranked number one in the country in economic growth in 
most-recent report by the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis. It was 
ranked the second-best state for business last year by CNBC.

Inslee’s status as the sole governor in the race may be short-lived. 
John Hickenlooper, who just ended two terms as Colorado governor, has 
been exploring a run through his Giddy Up PAC and plans a possible 
announcement next week, according to the Colorado Sun. Montana Gov. 
Steve Bullock also is reportedly considering a run.

Margaret O’Mara, a University of Washington history professor who has 
studied presidential campaigns, said like a lot of 2020 candidates, 
Inslee’s chances of success are slim.

“Any presidential candidacy is in some dimensions a fool’s errand,” she 
said, noting that Washington state, in particular, rarely has produced 
nationally known politicians. Still, O’Mara said, such a campaign “is a 
terrific platform to spread the message you want to spread.”

It remains to seen whether Inslee can stand out even on his signature 
issue, given that other Democratic candidates have expressed support, at 
least in principle, for a shift to a clean energy economy dubbed the 
Green New Deal.

“Certainly in the Democratic primary that’s a really resonant issue. But 
the people who have really captured the hearts and minds on the Green 
New Deal, it’s not Jay Inslee, it’s AOC (New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio 
Cortez), it’s women, it’s people of color,” O’Mara said. “In the 
Democratic primary, it’s a hurdle for him.”

Early polling has shown Inslee remains comparatively unknown on a 
national level. In a Morning Consult poll of Democratic primary voters 
released this week, he placed last among 21 listed candidates, with zero 
percent support.

Veteran Democratic political consultant Ron Dotzauer, who runs the 
lobbying firm Strategies 360, dismissed early polling as irrelevant and 
said Inslee’s focused climate message will be an asset. He called Inslee 
a skilled campaigner whose down-to-earth style could appeal to early 
state voters in New Hampshire and Iowa.

“On the liability side, show me the money,” Dotzauer said, pointing to 
big cash hauls by other early contenders, including Sanders, who raised 
$10 million in less than a week after entering the race.

Inslee could get support from well-heeled environmentalist donors, both 
in Washington state and elsewhere. A pro-Inslee super PAC, Act Now on 
Climate, formed last week, with a spokeswoman saying the group’s first 
call if Inslee ran would be to California billionaire Tom Steyer.

Steyer, who made his fortune as a hedge fund manager, has been an Inslee 
ally on climate change; the two met in December in San Francisco. A 
month later Steyer announced he would not run for president himself, 
instead focusing on a campaign to get Trump impeached.

One of Inslee’s first tasks will be to get on stage for the first round 
of Democratic primary debates, which will allow up to 20 candidates 
split up between one debate in June and one in July.

To qualify, candidates must reach at least 1 percent in three national 
or early-primary state polls, or by receiving donations from 65,000 
people — with a minimum of 200 donors in at least 20 states, according 
to the Democratic National Committee.

Seattle Times staff reporter Joseph O’Sullivan contributed to this report.

Related
Jay Inslee’s political career: From part-time, small-town prosecutor to 
presidential candidate

Podcast: Could Washington Gov. Jay Inslee make climate count in 2020 
presidential race?

Jim Brunner: 206-515-5628 or jbrunner@seattletimes.com; on Twitter: 
@Jim_Brunner. Seattle Times political reporter Jim Brunner covers state, 
local and regional politics.

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A new plan to help stop climate change could be Earth's last chance kensi <kkensington01@gmail.nospam.invalid> - 2019-03-03 06:42 +0200
  Re: A new plan to help stop climate change could be Earth's last chance Avenging Angel <Not.fucking.likely@NoWay.com> - 2019-03-03 23:04 +0000
    Re: A new plan to help stop climate change could be Earth's last chance Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2019-03-03 18:45 -0700
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