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<div>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</div><div>4/17/12</div><div>
</div><div>WASHINGTON, DC – Today,<b> the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) launched a $230,000 television ad campaign in Pennsylvania targeting Rep. Tim Holden (PA-17</b>) for supporting then-President George W. Bush’s energy plan, which included billions in special tax breaks for Big Oil, while also opposing President Obama’s plan to boost clean energy technologies. The television ad will run on broadcast and cable in the Scranton media market. Given Rep. Holden’s poor environmental record across the board, LCV is also naming him to its 2012 “Dirty Dozen” list. He is just the 2nd candidate named to the list in 2012.</div><div>
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</div><div>“When it comes to the biggest, most important energy votes of the day, Tim Holden has come down squarely on the side of the Bush-era policies of the past – which means more special tax breaks for Big Oil and more pollution for Pennsylvanians,” said Navin Nayak, LCV senior vice president for campaigns. “Instead of supporting President Obama’s plan to build an American clean energy economy, Tim Holden has repeatedly stood with the same Big Oil companies that carried the day during the Bush administration.”</div><div>
</div><div>In the past year, Rep. Holden has supported extreme measures to permanentl<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">y block the EPA from regulating global warming pollution and block the first-ever limits on mercury pollution from power plants. Last year alone, he earned a dismal score of just 43 percent in LCV’s National Environmental Scorecard. Rep. Holden’s lifetime LCV score of 57 percent gives him the 6th worst environmental voting record among current Democrats in the House.</span></div><div>
</div><div>LCV's trademark “Dirty Dozen” program targets candidates for Congress – regardless of party affiliation – who consistently vote against clean energy and conservation and are running in races in which LCV has a serious chance to affect the outcome. Since 1996, 60 percent of the candidates named to the “Dirty Dozen” have been defeated.</div><div>
</div><div>View the ad documentation here: http://www.lcv.org/assets/docs/holden-ad-documentation.pdf</div><div>
</div><div>View the ad here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HaKhXOQN3A</div><div>
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</div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">While Dueker may not be a household name, she worked in the Missouri attorney general’s office (alongside then-staff colleague Chris Koster) and later was chief of staff for then-Gov. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Bob</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Holden. The St. Louis native served during a tumultuous time in Democratic politics -- when Republicans had taken over both chambers of the Missouri General Assembly and Holden was under political siege.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dueker eventually returned to the private sector after Holden left office, joining the law firm now known as Stinson Leonard Street. She has been involved in high-profile legal cases, including lawsuits against St. Louis County’s trash program and a proposed St. Louis ballot initiative aimed at Peabody Energy.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On the show, Dueker said:</p><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px 2em 0px 1.5em; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none inside; position: relative; top: 0px; left: 1em; text-indent: -12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 22px;"><li style="margin: 2px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; overflow: visible; float: none; width: auto; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Her first public service job was in then-Attorney General Bill Webster’s office. The Republican officeholder eventually went to prison after he lost to Democrat Mel Carnahan in the 1992 gubernatorial contest. </li><li style="margin: 2px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; overflow: visible; float: none; width: auto; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She faced an “unbelievably challenging” experience being chief of staff when Republicans completed their takeover of the Missouri General Assembly. Despite some very public battles, Dueker emphasized that Holden and the GOP majorities were able to accomplish some important initiatives.</li><li style="margin: 2px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; overflow: visible; float: none; width: auto; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Holden’s decision to place a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage on the August ballot severely complicated his re-election chances.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Holden went on to lose to then-Auditor Claire McCaskill</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in the Democratic primary.</span></li><li style="margin: 2px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; overflow: visible; float: none; width: auto; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Her experience in the private sector and government gave her plenty of insight in building her “governmental solutions” practice at Stinson Leonard Street. “The beauty of all the experience that I’ve had has helped me because it gives me a lot of tools to solve the problem,” she said.</li><li style="margin: 2px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; overflow: visible; float: none; width: auto; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After initially supporting him, she grew more and more disenchanted with St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley’s administration. Dueker is now supporting Councilman Steve Stenger’s bid to upend Dooley in the Aug. 5 Democratic primary.</li></ul></div><div>
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