NH, NJ, and RGGI

What does it say when a Democrat State Senator in New Jersey wants to get his State out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) – the state level Cap and Trade scam – but some New Hampshire State Senators (Republicans!) are against the RGGI repeal coming before them?

Here is what NJ State Senator Paul Sarlo said a couple of weeks ago:

“I believe that these greenhouse gas emissions are harmful to our environment and we need to do something to stop them and prevent global warming,” said Sarlo, a former RGGI supporter. “But what has happened…we’re taking ratepayers’ money, small business owners’ money…and we’re not doing anything to protect the environment.”

Any Republican, who is sworn to follow the Party platform of reducing government scope, size, and spending, should seriously reconsider his or her party affiliation if they support the continuation of our RGGI membership. Based on the history of the program, RGGI is all about government control and the redistribution of wealth, NOT the environment.

According to this article, almost 40 NJ legislators, in addition to Senator Sarlo, are (co)sponsoring one bill or another to eject their state from RGGI…

Amazingly, even our own Foster’s Daily Democrat is editorializing that “the Senate should scrap RGGI”

Our NH House passed RGGI repeal….but will Republican Senators be true to the conservative principles most of them campaigned on?

I’m talking about getting out of RGGI, not some watered-down, amended membership compromise – while we have the opportunity.

Let all 19 NH Republican State Senators know if you agree with these sentiments.

Tom Flaherty, Milford