( - promoted by Matt Singer)
(John Firehammer is communications director for the Tyler Gernant for Congress campaign)
Democrats have a stark choice in the June 8 primary. While one candidate has articulated a clear path toward the future by advocating the development of clean, sustainable energy, another has no new ideas.
Tyler Gernant believes Montana has the potential to be a leader in the development of wind, solar and bio-fuel energy. This will bring billions of dollars and thousands of new jobs to the state.
His opponent, Dennis McDonald, on the other hand, is beholden to coal -- to the extent that he actually advocates the construction of a coal-fed generating plant at Montana's Otter Creek.
It doesn't seem to matter to McDonald that area ranchers oppose and fear coal development at Otter Creek, or that more coal is not the answer to Montana's energy and economic woes.
McDonald is firm in his support of this outmoded, short-term industry, while offering nothing in terms of policy that would move us away from our dependence on coal and foreign oil.
In short, McDonald is trapped in the past, while Tyler Gernant is poised to lead us into the future. The choice June 8 is one between new energy and old ideas.
You can hear McDonald detail his bad, backwards thoughts on energy policy here. |
