Today we have a Two-For-Toolsday offering of oil and gas industry tools, Rep. Heather Wilson (NM) and Sen. George Allen (VA.) When Rep. Heather Wilson was asked about lowering arsenic levels in drinking water, she said the lower level was “wrong-headed and based on bad science.” She has voted pro-pollution at every turn (arsenic, no on MTBE cleanup, no on fuel efficiency,) believing no toxic mess nasty enough to force a corporation to spend their hard-earned profits cleaning up after themselves.
Sen. George Allen (VA) has made headlines for a francophone ethnic slur, but even before this he showed a rather poor talent for demonstrating tolerance, posing for photos with white supremacist group Council of Conservative Citizens (because apparently white supremacist groups like really easy-to-remember initials. Which is not to insinuate anything about AAA, who have helped thousands get easy roadside assistance…). He also had a Confederate flag hanging in his living room for many years, suggesting at the very least that he has a prejudice against tasteful interior decorators. He’s featured in the Dirty Dozen for his lifetime LCV score of 1%, and “has yet to meet a bill sponsored by Big Oil that he didn’t like,” according to LCV president Gene Karpinski.