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Red State, Green Campaign
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In These Times
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June 1, 2008
- Author:
- Boyd, Sam
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THIS ELECTION YEAR, one of the greenest campaigns is being run not in blue Massachusetts or California, but in bright-red Oklahoma.
State Sen. Andrew Rice (D-Oklahoma City) is challenging incumbent Sen. James Inhofe (R), 74. Congress' most vocal denier of global warming, and is doing so with an innovative message that could serve as a future model for Democrats across the country.
In 2003, Inhofe infamously called global warming "the second largest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people." (The largest hoax, he has said, is the separation between church and state.) Inhofe frequently cites novelist Michael Crichton as a source of his rants, and last December he unveiled a list of 400 ...