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<section class="article-body" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 0.95em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;">Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) thinks local communities should be able to decide how fracking is regulated in their areas, and whether it’s allowed at all. He’s among the backers of some <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/04/27/untangling-colorado-s-flood-anti-fracking-ballot-initiatives" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(157, 157, 157); text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">initiatives proposed</a> for the November ballot that could increase local control over oil and gas drilling.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;">And the chair of the Colorado Republican Committee, <a href="https://twitter.com/ryanrcall" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(157, 157, 157); text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">Ryan Call</a>, says that makes Polis a terrorist. Here’s a screen grab that<a href="http://coloradopols.com/diary/57539/clock-ticks-down-on-local-control-compromise-legislation" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(157, 157, 157); text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">ColoradoPols.com took of a Twitter exchange </a>before Call deleted the offensive tweet:<span id="more-240483" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;" /></p><figure id="attachment_240485" class="grist-img-container aligncenter" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px auto 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 16px; max-width: 100%; width: 470px;"><img class="size-large wp-image-240485" src="http://grist.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/ryan-call-terrorist-tweet.png?w=470&h=298" alt="Ryan Call tweet" width="470" height="298" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;" /><figcaption class="credit" style="max-width: 100%; text-align: right; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; margin: 2px; color: rgb(157, 157, 157);"><a title="image credit" href="http://coloradopols.com/diary/57539/clock-ticks-down-on-local-control-compromise-legislation" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">ColoradoPols.com</a></figcaption></figure><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;">Another Republican, state Rep. Jerry Sonnenberg, picked up the theme, <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_25684644/draft-compromise-gives-colorado-locals-some-control-oil" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(157, 157, 157); text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">saying</a>, “Polis’ jihad against responsible energy development is reckless.”</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;"><a href="http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_25686668/colo-gop-chair-labels-jared-polis-terrorist-over" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(157, 157, 157); text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">The Boulder <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;">Daily Camera</em> reports</a> that Call apologized for using the T word:</p><blockquote style="border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 1.4em 42px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: ''; max-width: 100%; width: auto !important;"><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;">“It’s a fact that Congressman Jared Polis’ proposed regulations will put thousands of Colorado jobs and our state’s economic future at risk,” [Call] said. “While I passionately believe that we must protect these jobs and energy development in our state, I understand that my comment has distracted from this important conversation.” …</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;">On Friday, Polis said his fight for local control over drilling may have to be settled in November’s election, in which his seat also will be on the ballot.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;">“Fundamentally, what my constituents feel needs to occur is that communities need to have a role in the siting of fracking activities in their areas,” he said. “Currently, that debate is co-opted by the state, which allows fracking to occur anywhere and everywhere.”</p></blockquote><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;">What’s really more terrorizing – run-of-the-mill democracy, or energy companies pumping poisons into the ground and the air for short-term financial gain with limited government oversight?</p><a id="grist-end-of-article" style="border: 0px; 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GOP chair labels Jared Polis 'terrorist' over Boulder Democrat's fracking stance</a>, Daily Camera</li><li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/04/27/untangling-colorado-s-flood-anti-fracking-ballot-initiatives" target="_blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(157, 157, 157); text-decoration: none;">Untangling Colorado's Flood of Anti-Fracking Ballot Initiatives</a>, DeSmogBlog</li></ul></div></div>