Watching KDVR’s new show “The Source”, we’re not sure which is faker – the b-roll behind Eli Stokols meant to portray him standing in The Source, an artisan food market in the Denver River North District, or U.S. Rep. Jared Polis’ attempts to position himself as pro-energy development. (To be fair to Stokols, his producers noted that he would not be in The Source for all interviews.)
But, yes, we’re talking about the same Polis who is bankrolling a statewide anti-energy campaign.
Here are a few of the softball questions Stokols served up:
- Tell me what you’re looking to do here (with the local control initiatives).
- Why is this so important to you and your constituents?
- Where are negotiations for a compromise at right now?
- What are these talks about between your office, the governor’s office, and the industry that would come to some sort of compromise?
- What will it take for you to not move forward with this measure?
- There’s a notion that this will harm Democrats like Mark Udall this fall if local control is put on the ballot. What’s your response?
The truth is that Polis is throwing a fit because someone fracked near his vacation home and, now, he wants to project his displeasure on the rest of Colorado. Let’s be clear – Polis is threatening Colorado’s jobs and economic prosperity and our national energy security in the name of his vacation home, which is still lovely, btw.
Feel free to watch the clip below, but don’t be fooled, PeakNation™. Polis currently is the driving force behind the local control initiatives – he’s no moderate on energy development. And, Eli, your viewers would have a lot more respect for you if you asked the tough questions.
I find it completely disingenuous that a few days ago Polis supposedly had "a neutral stance" on the Loveland Energy Ban in an interview with the Colorado Observer. Now he claims he is somehow "supportive" and somehow "pro-energy?" Unbelievable! He's pro-energy as long as it's only solar and wind. Period. He's otherwise spending his personal fortune funding "Coloradans for Safe and Clean Energy" which is behind the statewide frack bans, doing it city by city. His claims of "neutrality "and now "support" while his millions fund these ballot measures to get other communities to enact precisely the same ban that Loveland now faces is simply beyond belief. Polis' should face it. He stepped into this with his emotional please, "I've been fracked." He should at least be consistent so he doesn't look clueless – and be honest in admitting that his agenda, along with the other anti-energy extremists, is to wipe out the oil/gas energy industry in Colorado. This is an industry that provides over 100,000 jobs for EVERYDAY Coloradans – who by the way struggle to make ends meet and rely on those jobs to feed their families. All because he didn't like a 20 day drilling operation across the highway from one of his massive vacation homes? Could he be more selfish?"