Trump’s anti-renewable energy spree threatens a vulnerable Republican in wind-rich Iowa - POLITICO
Trump’s anti-renewable energy spree threatens a vulnerable Republican in wind-rich Iowa - POLITICO https://share.google/KYX3K3JNEgrfQUiDL
Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks held her seat by a razor-thin margin in 2024, but could see her support erode because of her vote to end incen
AMES, Iowa — President Donald Trump’s bid to kill wind power is straining the clean energy industry — and imperiling GOP lawmakers whose communities have seen wind as an economic boon.
Few of those lawmakers are more endangered than Iowa’s Mariannette Miller-Meeks.
Hailing from a state that gets nearly two-thirds of its electricity from wind turbines while paying some of the lowest power bills in the nation, Miller-Meeks has been a leading GOP champion in the House for an “all-of-the-above” energy strategy supporting the growth of renewables alongside fossil fuels. But she also cast a crucial vote for Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, which wiped out billions of dollars in wind’s economic incentives — throwing Iowa’s 50-plus wind-related companies into uncertainty.
That vote is giving Democrats new hope of capturing Miller-Meeks’ district in Iowa’s southeast corner, where she won reelection last year by only 799 votes. (Trump won the same district by 8 points.) Republicans are scrambling to preserve their narrow House majority in next year’s midterms, with national polls showing most voters unhappy with the GOP’s sweeping budget bill.
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In an August interview at the state Republican Party office in Des Moines, Miller-Meeks stood by her advocacy for wind power — saying it deserves a place in the nation’s energy mix even amid Trump’s full-bore backing for fossil fuels.
“Wind works,” said Miller-Meeks, who also chairs the Conservative Climate Caucus. “Iowa has proved that.”
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Wind farms are the top taxpayer in a third of Iowa counties, contributing up to 55 percent of property taxes, and they provide $91.4 million in annual lease payments to farmers, according to Power Up Iowa, a coalition of renewable energy supporters that hosted an exhibit last month at the Iowa State Fair attended by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds.
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Legacy systems, depending on force and non-consenting manipulation (f@k'em🖕🏾tim.ber) have only themselves to blame, but of course, will choose you, for purposes of obfuscation and more. Apparently clear and honest and consenting communication is too difficult or disturbing to certain motivation factors within this system. It's not just Trump and associated governances. Legacy systems can and will be found in every country and many institutions, and far too frequently, the mind nearest and dearest to you. A mind virus, across all affiliated groups. Targeting and sustained by toxic emotions and forceful behaviors. However, in time for Autumn, melancholia reminds us that the tic does tok regardless, unless, innovation and sustainable change is used to heal and help. Toxins and scar tissue.
As a tangent - recently I saw and heard the expression: "anger issues" - as was applied to some discussion of blame. Couldn't help but be quizzical and dismissive. "Anger issues" 👀🤔😅a tautology or pleonasm. Where there is anger, that is itself evolutionarily derived signal for issue (problem) - not strength, nor cool, nor whatever other twisted societal machinations. Imagine the following: anger benefits, anger solutions, anger good, anger is an issue. Period. It is a highly accurate and singular evolutionary development that signals only issues - for millions of years. Yet we, as civilizations, continue to disregard this simply, and brazenly, masochistically, as if we're auditioning for the most unnecessary 'campy soap-opera action drama nonsense' 🤣...
And the behaviors that routinely choose and exploit this, while pretending to be logic itself - that they are creating anything other than opportunity for issues 😅 - is completely dishonest, dangerous, and useless (useless energy - chaos). Not all things in nature be carried forward, blindly, or otherwise👈🏾🫵🏾🖕🏾. Decisions in conscious inefficiencies. Do not purposefully upset minds and blame the signal. A nonsense😅... Tim.ber to such persons, systems, and mindsets. F@k'em 🖕🏾👈🏾 anger issues 👈🏾 precisely. You play at the wrong game, friends. Self-fulfilling behaviors - cyclic chaos - emotions are infectious. There is no sustainable ladder in chao.
Regardless, Tim. Ber🖕🏾👈🏾😅
(*this had been another exercise, in creative writing, please kindly do your own dd* and be well and happy and kind*)
