John:
Right now, we’re witnessing an incredible moment: Henry Cuellar, one of Big Oil’s favorite Democrats, is being forced to run TV ads defending his record on climate change.
That’s an amazing victory. Cuellar’s team knows his brazen pandering to Koch Industries PAC and other fossil fuel billionaires is toxic with Democratic voters — and now, thanks to Jessica Cisneros’ challenge, he’s finally being forced to address it.
Here’s the bad news though: he’s gaslighting everyone. His ads are bold-faced lies, arguing that moderate, centrist talking points approved by fossil fuel corporations can deal with the climate crisis. Nope.
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The only reason that Cuellar can even pay for these ads is because he takes hundreds of thousands in corporate PAC donations from the same corporations he’s defending.
While we don’t know how much Cuellar raised last quarter yet, we do know that he had at least $3,000,000 on hand in Q2 ready to blast progressive priorities like the Green New Deal.
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We don’t have any billionaire funders or corporate PACs to turn to here. It’s us versus the powerful special interests — and we’re all going to need to dig deep to win this battle.
We don’t know about you, but we’re glad we’re on the right side of this fight. Thanks for standing with us.
In solidarity,
Justice Democrats