Martin Nesbitt
Submitted by James on Tue, 11/17/2009 - 2:18pm
Most of what I can find about Senator Martin Nesbitt leans in the direction of positive in my view. I hope that bodes well for his tenure as majority leader in the NC Senate. A discussion I found on the Asheville Citizen Times website is encouraging.
Sen. Ellie Kinnaird said she's committed to voting for Sen. Martin Nesbitt for majority leader. But she has one problem with how Nesbitt has been described in the press - as the Senate's most liberal member, according to the Civitas Institute.
"He’s nowhere near as liberal as me," she protested.
Actually, she doesn't have anything to worry about. According to the conservative Civitas' annual rankings of such things, Nesbitt is tied with Katie Dorsett and, yes, Kinnaird for the spot.
Civitas ranking? Just more nonsense pumped into the press by the Art Pope Glittery Opinion Manufacturing Machine.
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Didn't he write the bill banning windmills in the mountains?
I'm sure he's done plenty of good, but it's hard for me to be happy with someone who did that. I really let his office have it after I heard about the bill.
I didn't know that
Bummer.
And I doubt that's the only misguided course he's led. Truth is, there are slim pickings in the North Carolina Senate, Inc. Which helps explain why the CEO (Basnight) gets to choose whomever he wants. It could be worse, I suppose. The place could be run by Art Pope.
Here you go, buddy
I blogged about Nesbitt and his two co-horts sometime back, but I never gave their last names to even out my ambiguous title. :/
He may be the greatest thing since sliced bread, but if he comes out swinging against wind turbines, he will move up much higher on my List...
Thanks.
That was one of my favorite posts ... but I never put 2 and 2 together to get 753.
I'm not aware of any environmental leadership whatsoever in the NC Senate, so we're all bound to be disappointed on that front.
You got that right
I'd love to see Pricey slide over to the Senate, but I think that district is kinda reddish.
I've also been meaning to try to get some facetime with Tony Foriest, so I can wave a medallion back and forth and Mesmer him into joining the Sierra Club or something, but now I have absolutely no idea when my time off will be. I guess I could e-mail him, but it's damn hard to hypnotize somebody like that. :)
Yeah, that was a damn shame
I'm hoping the coastal wind stuff being studied works out, though. Pamlico Sound or offshore, whichever. The wind resources we have offshore are fantastic, and it would bring jobs too.
God, you just HAVE to love that sharrison
I have been all over the hills in Northern California where tens of thousands of windmills currently exist.
Nothing on that landscape is more beautiful than what you have presented in "blogged about Nesbitt". I am on BlueNC quite a bit but somehow missed that.
I know that the windmills built in Northern California have been extremely expensive and have huge maintenance issues and the amount of power going back into the grid there has been somewhat disappointing. I have discussed this here before so I will not beat that dead horse but I do have concerns about just how expensive it would be to build windmills on our shores and maybe even in relatively shallow waters. And, I wonder if there has been any kind of cost/benefit analysis done that shows this would be a worthwhile venture either by government entities or private sources. Hopefully the technology on these has been improved and hopefully they have become more efficient and reliable. Yes, I know you cannot put a price on improving our environment, but just saying.
I now am a proponent of wind energy sources but feel a lot of things hopefully will be done both technically and financially to improve the drawbacks seen on many windmill sites to date.
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Good points
Of course, I could say that about coal plant, nuclear plants, hydro, natural gas, and solar farms. If we don't get started, we won't know what works and what needs improving.
Stick around for Secretary Marshall? Ask her a tough question ... I bet she'll answer it.