Greens Launch Pro-Republican Push

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August 15, 2014

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by Darren Goode (Politico) … The Environmental Defense Action Fund is rolling out a seven-figure ad campaign to aid green-minded Republicans in the midterm elections, part of a longer-term effort to find GOP partners on priorities like climate change. If it works, it would offer a break from the growing partisan split that green issues have encountered in recent years — not to mention the aggressively pro-Democratic efforts of groups like the League of Conservation Voters and billionaire Tom Steyer’s super PAC.
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Still, supporters of the effort say they see stirrings of conservationist Republican activism around the country, including among young conservatives and a pro-solar-power “green tea” alliance between Georgia tea party activists and the Sierra Club.
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“We want to create competition between the parties to be better on environmental issues, and that’s how we’re going to get to more ambitious action,” said Tony Kreindler, the Environmental Defense Action Fund’s senior director for strategic communications, who is overseeing the effort. He said the group wants to create a dynamic in which “both parties are coming to the table with their own ideas.”
Coddy Johnson, a former White House political strategist and national field director for the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign, stressed that the campaign is meant to be a lengthy one. He calls climate change the “next logical issue” to pursue after the work that he and other Republicans did in recent years to support gay marriage.
“There’s a broader trend taking place in the electorate and among Republicans to think about the environment and conservatism and climate change as a key issue,” he said in an interview. “That doesn’t just get settled in 2014, but one we’ll be working on perhaps throughout our lifetimes.” READ MORE

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