May 8, 2014 at 8:29 am
Land campaign criticizes Peters on pipeline
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Republican Senate candidate Terri Lynn Land is trying to make the opposition of Rep. Gary Peters, D-Bloomfield Township, to the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry oil from the Canadian tar sands to U.S. refineries (YouTube)
Republican Senate candidate Terri Lynn Land is unveiling two new Internet ads that criticize her rival for opposing the Keystone XL pipeline and tying him to a billionaire.
Land is trying to make the opposition of Rep. Gary Peters, D-Bloomfield Township, to the controversial pipeline that would carry oil from the Canadian tar sands to U.S. refineries, a campaign issue. Her ads cite media reports that Peters attended a Feb. 19 event with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and former Vice President Al Gore at the San Francisco home of Tom Steyer, a billionaire hedge fund manager who has vowed to spend tens of millions in favor of candidates who oppose the pipeline.
“Gary Peters — working for billionaires not Michigan,” say the two ads from Land. “Steyer could make millions by killing the pipeline by investments in Keystone’s competitor.”
Last month, the Obama administration indefinitely delayed a decision on the pipeline — potentially until after the 2014 midterm elections.
The State Department said it was delaying a decision on whether to approve a permit citing a decision by a Nebraska court to invalidate part of the pipeline route. The Nebraska Supreme Court is expected to take up the case this fall.
The U.S. government has been studying the issue for more than five years. Supporters say the pipeline will create jobs while opponents say the project is environmentally unsound and will boost heat-trapping gas emissions and warn of potential spills.
"Voters deserve to know that Congressman Peters and his allies have traded Michigan jobs and American energy security for more than $400,000 in shady contributions from a liberal California billionaire who invested in a competing pipeline,” said Heather Swift, a spokeswoman for Terri Lynn Land. “Michiganders support the Keystone by a margin of nearly 2:1.”
Peters campaign didn’t immediately respond. It’s aired its own Web ads recently criticizing Land’s position on women’s rights.
Democrats have repeatedly criticized Land’s connection to two other billionaires — industrialists Charles and David Koch — who have largely funded more than $5 million in ads in Michigan attacking Peters. Democrats accuse her of following “marching orders from the Koch brothers and opposing an increase in the minimum wage.”
“By opposing an increase to the minimum wage, Terri Lynn Land is once again siding with the billionaire Koch brothers over hard working Michiganders,” said Justin Barasky, a spokesman at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.“Land supports tax breaks for billionaires like the Kochs but opposes a minimum wage hike, standing against the majority of Michiganders who support growing the economy and strengthening Michigan’s middle class.”
From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140508/POLITICS02/305080075#ixzz318kb8Npo
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