Fall campaigns aren’t coal-fueled yet

After the coal wars of the past legislative session ended with Holcomb plant opponents on top, the buzz was that the advocacy groups behind nearly $1 million in ads during that fight would insert themselves in specific election campaigns. But so far it’s quiet out there, and Harris News Service reports that most of the groups involved “say they’re not planning to spend additional dollars trying to influence the outcome of legislative races.” Sunflower Electric Power Corp.’s Steve Miller did say the company planned to contribute to some supportive candidates. And in general, he said, “we are going to continue to advance the cause of getting those power plants built.”

7 Comments

  1. JWink
    Posted September 21, 2008 at 6:38 am | Permalink

    With the amount of big corporation money at stake in building the western Kansas coal fired power plants … you can be assured there will be plenty of political contributions or some kind of support to politicians who support building the power plants.

  2. sunflower5
    Posted September 21, 2008 at 8:47 am | Permalink

    These plants would have been cleaner than any of the other plants operating today in Kansas.

    They would have provided needed jobs and income to the state.

    I was told the other day at a meeting that our legislators will be facing a $200 plus million dollar deficit when they go back to Topeka.

    Will they cut budgets, raise taxes or figure out how to improve our economy?

    Mine had best cut budgets, improve the economy and say no to more taxes.

  3. ksfarmgrrl
    Posted September 21, 2008 at 10:12 am | Permalink

    “They would have provided needed jobs and income to the state.”

    Western Kansas already has more jobs available than can be filled with the current workforce. And no one is chomping at the bit to move here for those jobs.

    As for the government revenue this would generate, care to provide some figures? Would it be more than enough to cover the COSTS to the government of cleaning up this mess?

    AND replacing the water it would use?

    WHY do you want to give Colorado TWO shots at using our water to generate THEIR power?

    kansans… as dumb as you think.

    Forget blood for oil. How about blood AND treasure for Sunflower Electric?

    As Hank would say “nitwits”.

    I think ALL the brothers Wit must be involved. You know them. Nit, Dim and Half….

  4. Franklin
    Posted September 21, 2008 at 11:35 am | Permalink

    Funny, the Eagle is on the hunt for campaign contributions, no doubt so that the Eagle can try to defeat politicians that take campaign contributions from companies the Eagle thinks are “evil” —

    However, in the Presidential race, Obama takes more money from Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Countrywide and Lehman Brothers and the Eagle is completely silent!

    By they way, greenies, Lehman Brothers was very tight with Al Gore, and Lehman intended to be on the forefront of trading “carbon credits” —

  5. Franklin
    Posted September 21, 2008 at 11:59 am | Permalink

    Tax the Eagle!
    Newspapers are dirty, old technology.
    Newsprint wastes water.
    Cutting down trees, making newsprint, printing newspapers,transporting trees and newsprint and discarded newspapers wastes energy and causes polution.
    We have clean internet technology now.
    TAX the Eagle, use the revenue to further reduce the cost of “clean” technology.
    TAX the Eagle, use the revenue to fund “methane extraction” energy from the landfills, where the Eagle and other newspapers end up!

  6. Phantom
    Posted September 21, 2008 at 12:43 pm | Permalink

    There just sitting back and seeing who’s going to win before they start funnelling the money to our reps.

  7. mrbill
    Posted September 21, 2008 at 9:28 pm | Permalink

    Heh….Kyoto goes down the crapper in EU.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080921/sc_afp/euclimatechange

    Firms just now telling the politicians it will never work and they are moving to another country , intend to lay off everyone in Europe. The goals have NEVER been met and could never have been , short of living in caves.

    Well that went well dont you think.