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</div><div><h2 style="font-size: 1em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; color: rgb(0, 153, 255); clear: both; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 255); line-height: 1.5em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Rep. Pat Garofalo</b></h2><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Day Job:</b> Member of Minnesota House of Representatives and serves as GOP Lead on the House Energy Policy Committee.</p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Industry Ties:</b> He's written <a href="http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2014/04/08/minnesota-law-requires-500-megawatt-hour-solar-electricity" style="outline: none; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">for Heartland</a>. State <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Minnesota_ALEC_Politicians" style="outline: none; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">co-chair</a> at ALEC, which is <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/08/05/288979/revealed-bp-is-top-funder-of-alec-annual-meeting-in-oil-soaked-louisiana/" style="outline: none; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">heavily funded</a> by fossil-fuel interests. </p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Fox News guest:</b> No, but <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2014/03/10/minnesota-rep-pat-garofalo-nba-tweet-called-racist-prompts-hundreds-responses/" style="outline: none; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Garofalo made headlines</a> this March when he tweeted, "Let's be honest, 70% of teams in NBA could fold tomorrow + nobody would notice a difference w/ possible exception of increase in streetcrime."</p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Climate Expertise:</b> None. His only degree is in law enforcement.</p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>He said it:</b> "<a href="http://billmoyers.com/2014/05/15/i-attended-an-alec-conference-and-found-an-alternative-universe/" style="outline: none; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Solar is dumb</a>."</p></div><div></div>