Valenzuela a “Don’t Do As I Do” Democrat

Candace Valenzuela is running for Congress as an anti-oil and gas Democrat despite her family profiting directly from the industry. What a hypocrite!

In case you missed it…

The ‘Don’t Do As I Do’ Democrats
Peter Roff
Newsweek
September 29, 2020
https://www.newsweek.com/dont-do-i-do-democrats-opinion-1535061

Reporters love to play “Gotcha” with politicians. It’s in their DNA. A story about a politician caught doing something that conflicts with his or her platform is editorial gold. Sometimes.

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Steyer’s not the only Democrat with this problem. Candace Valenzuela, a Democrat running in Texas’ open 24th Congressional District, has attracted national interest because she’d be the first Afro-Latina in Congress if she wins. She’s made attacks on corporations and “corporate social interests” a central theme of her campaign, evading discussion of how she personally profited from the oil and gas industry thanks to the job her husband once held at a subsidiary of Caterpillar, one of the country’s largest manufacturing concerns.

Valenzuela’s positions on the environment and American energy production are to the left of even the Green New Deal. She’s on record opposing American fossil fuel production and calling for a stop to all oil and gas permitting. Not good for Texas, not good for Caterpillar, but good for her because the economic benefits she reaped from the oil and natural gas industry are already in the bank.

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