Gasoline magnate Skip Vallee is lashing out once again at Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — this time targeting the senator for opposing a moratorium on industrial wind development.
The Maplefields owner and gasoline distributor has ponied up $10,000 to run a new, 30-second attack ad on WCAX-TV for a week, according to the station. In it, Vallee accuses Sanders of seeking to “industrialize our mountains with giant wind turbines.”
“Once we sacrifice our mountains to big corporate interests, it will change Vermont forever,” the ad’s narrator says. “Tell Bernie Sanders we won’t let him and his corporate cronies spoil our Green Mountains.”
The ad appears to be referring to a press conference Sanders held in January to express his opposition to a proposed three-year moratorium on industrial wind development in Vermont. The state legislature has since mostly abandoned that proposal.
Here’s what Vallee’s ad looks like:
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Good ad Skip! I am not a fan of George Bush or The Republican Party, but I am with you on the travesty of destroying Vermont ridge lines with inefficient, health damaging industrial scale wind turbines! Those big monsters will be obsolete soon and the the irreversible damage to our ridge lines with their animal habitat and headwaters will remain. Big wind is all about the $$$$$, not the People! Shame on you, Bernie!
And shame on you for your juvenile name calling and bringing in details about your opponent’s life that are irrelevant to this issue!