Official: John Hickenlooper to announce Presidential candidacy

I know it's the Daily Caller, but this thread deserves a bump.

2020 HOPEFUL JOHN HICKENLOOPER’S BRINGING TOGETHER OIL COMPANIES AND GREENS WAS MORE ‘COERCION’ THAN ‘KUMBAYA,’ EXPERT SAYS

Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor
9:15 PM 03/04/2019 | ENERGY

• A free market think tank leader criticized former Democratic Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper’s claim he brought energy and environmental interests together to support methane regulations.
• “He’s not telling the truth when he says that,” said the Independence Institute’s Amy Oliver Cooke.
• Hickenlooper is running for president in 2020, framing himself as a pragmatic, moderate Democrat.

Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper kicked off his 2020 presidential bid as a pragmatic, moderate Democrat by claiming he brought oil and gas producers and environmentalists together to support regulations on methane emissions.

However, that’s not how Amy Oliver Cooke, director of the Energy and Environmental Policy Center at the free-market Independence Institute, remembered it.

“He’s not telling the truth when he says that,” Cooke told The Daily Caller News foundation in an interview. “It was coercion, it was not collaboration.”

Hickenlooper’s 2020 campaign announcement video highlighted the former governor’s results-driven, pragmatic agenda, including a time he got oil and gas companies and environmentalists to support methane regulations.

“We brought environmentalists and oil-and-gas companies to the table to create the toughest methane emissions laws in the country,” Hickenlooper said in his announcement ad.
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https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/04/hickenlooper-oil-environmentalists-2020/

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Bump for John

 

Coercion is just a feather in his cap as far as the Democratic primary is concerned.

 

Has he dropped out yet?

 

Eight posts so far. He's obviously running a strong campaign.