Comments on: Some thoughts on 2006 https://fguide.org/?p=60 News, outrage, euphoria, etc from the Center for Popular Economics Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:28:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Jonathan Teller-Elsberg https://fguide.org/?p=60#comment-24 Jonathan Teller-Elsberg Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:29:00 +0000 https://fguide.org/?p=60#comment-24 Other notable new members of Congress: surely our first Representative to be an expert on wind power, and founder of a wind generator company, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/cq/2006/11/08/cq_1899.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1163174601-cWhVIF3vW6k0a2qmalYGiw" rel="nofollow">Jerry McNerny</a> (D-California). The frosting on the cake is that the Republican he ousted was chair of the House Resources Committee. Maybe McNerny will be able to put Congress’s hot air to good use at last. And then there’s Senator-elect Jon Tester, who must be Congress’s first organic farmer since they invented modern agrichemicals. <a href="http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/11/9/165341/678" rel="nofollow">As Grist reports</a>, there’s a noticeable amount of green in this light at the end of the election tunnel. Other notable new members of Congress: surely our first Representative to be an expert on wind power, and founder of a wind generator company, Jerry McNerny (D-California). The frosting on the cake is that the Republican he ousted was chair of the House Resources Committee. Maybe McNerny will be able to put Congress’s hot air to good use at last.

And then there’s Senator-elect Jon Tester, who must be Congress’s first organic farmer since they invented modern agrichemicals. As Grist reports, there’s a noticeable amount of green in this light at the end of the election tunnel.

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