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Billionaire opens attack on Lynch in Mass. Senate race over Keystone XL
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| Contributor | Miro |
| Last Edited | Miro Mar 28, 2013 02:12pm |
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| Author | Alexandra Jaffe |
| News Date | Friday, March 22, 2013 07:10:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Billionaire Tom Steyer is forging ahead with a campaign to attack Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) over his support for the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline — despite Rep. Edward Markey's (D-Mass.) request that he stay out of the Massachusetts special Senate election race.
"While we have have great respect for Ed Markey and know he is a real Democrat, the issue in this race is whether Steve Lynch is running to be the senator from Canada fighting for increasing the wealth of a foreign oil company or a senator from Massachusetts who will stand for the common good of the Commonwealth," said Chris Lehane, a spokesman for Steyer.
Lynch and Markey are competing to win the Democratic primary for the Senate seat vacated by Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) when he became secretary of State.
Steyer is joining a group of Massachusetts environmental activists to target Lynch over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would ship oil from Alberta's oil sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast of Texas. President Obama and the State Department is currently weighing whether to approve the pipeline's construction. |
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