Rep. Polis Sides with New York Activist Groups Over Coloradans on Ban-Fracking Initiatives
Tuesday August 2, 2016
New campaign finance disclosures reveal that Congressman Jared Polis is getting behind an anti-fracking ballot measure that is opposed by Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and state business leaders, who have called it “an attack on Colorado’s economy.” As the Denver Business Journal reports:
“The group that Polis gave money to, Yes for Local Control over Oil and Gas, raised a total of $55,100. Of that, $50,000 came from Polis and his father, Stephen Schutz, of SPS Studios in La Jolla, California.”
In other words, Polis is officially teaming up with the New York-based Fracking Fund of the New World Foundation, which, as the Denver Business Journal reports, donated $25,000 to the anti-fracking initiative campaign. The filings also show that national activist groups Food & Water Watch, 350.org and Greenpeace are also pouring resources into the campaign.
This is not the first time Polis has worked with national ban-fracking groups in Colorado. In 2014, Polis backed a similar pair of statewide initiatives but pulled his support after Gov. Hickenlooper described them as “radical” and “extreme measures t...