Alan Muller of environmental watchdog Green Delaware read Tom Carper’s claim last week that Delaware’s environmental problems come from upwind coal-burning power plants and smelled revisionist history. So he penned this handy recap of Carper’s record, which boils down to the same policy Delaware’s Democrats have always had towards the environment — fuck it, let’s get some dirty jobs.
One of my co-bloggers wondered last week why Muller always supported Mike Castle. Simple — Castle, like Republicans Bill Roth and Russell Peterson before him, was more environmentally conscious that any Democrat who’s held any statewide or federal office in the past 40 years.