Mark Udall Sides with California Billionaire Over Coloradans in Opposing Keystone Pipeline | Cory Gardner - Now Is The Time

Washington, D.C. . — American Commitment, a national advocacy group with over 1,800 Colorado members, is launching a hard-hitting ad campaign targeting Colorado Senator Mark Udall’s opposition to the Keystone Pipeline — and his apparent motivation, a cozy relationship with a notorious contributor, billionaire San Francisco hedge fund kingpin Tom Steyer.

The ad demonstrates how Mark Udall has chosen California billionaire Tom Steyer over his Colorado constituents who overwhelmingly support building the Keystone Pipeline. Tom Steyer—a super-donor who has pledged $100 million to bankroll political campaigns, including Mark Udall’s—is a leading opponent of the pipeline, with a disastrous history of environmental destruction in Colorado. The crassly political decision by the Obama Administration to yet again delay the final permit for the pipeline is a direct result of the corrupt bargain politics embraced by Mark Udall and many of his Senate colleagues.

“Mark Udall sold out his Colorado constituents by choosing a San Francisco billionaire over jobs and affordable energy for Colorado,” said Phil Kerpen, president of American Commitment. “Mark Udall is the only energy state Democrat to pick Tom Steyer over the very constituents who sent him to Washington to represent their interests. Mark Udall’s vote against the pipeline last year was a vote against Colorado, and his recent conspicuous refusal to join other energy state Democrats on a letter supporting the pipeline shows Udall continues to choose his billionaire California backer over his Colorado constituents."

The new ad, titled “Colorado Steyer Infection” opens with the narrator outlining Mark Udall’s cozy relationship with Tom Steyer: “California Billionaire Tom Steyer is bankrolling Colorado Senator Mark Udall’s campaign. Steyer even hosted Udall for a fundraiser in his San Francisco mansion.

"But Steyer’s hurt our state. He tried to make millions by diverting water from southern Colorado. When local residents spoke out, Steyer’s partners pushed statewide ballot initiatives to ‘bankrupt’ local opponents and ‘steal San Luis Valley water.

“Now Mark Udall is helping Steyer kill the Keystone Pipeline…even though Coloradans strongly support it.”

Narrator, quoting a press release shown on screen from union president Sean McGarvey: “Pipeline delay is a victory for Tom Steyer, but ‘a cold slap in the face of American workers.’”

The ad concludes, “Call Mark Udall: Tell him to put Colorado ahead of his billionaire backer and support the Keystone Pipeline.”

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The NRSC has released a new ad supporting the Conservative republican candidate Cory Gardner who is opposing Mark Udall in Colorado.  The ad is titled, "Now Is The Time."

Now Is the Time for Coloradans to send Mark Udall packing to his out-of-state billionaire liberal friends.

Elect Cory Gardner as Colorado's U.S. Senator who will work to represent the people of Colorado verses Udall' outsiders and the Federal Government.

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