{"id":28520,"date":"2017-12-13T19:56:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T01:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=28520"},"modified":"2017-12-13T19:56:44","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T01:56:44","slug":"endorsement-sean-casten-illinois-red-blue-6th-congressional-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/13\/endorsement-sean-casten-illinois-red-blue-6th-congressional-district\/","title":{"rendered":"An endorsement for Sean Casten in Illinois&#8217; red-to-blue 6th Congressional district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climate Hawks Vote has this <a href=\"http:\/\/climatehawksvote.com\/candidate\/sean-casten\/\">press release<\/a>: <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Climate Hawks Vote is pleased to announce its newest endorsement: Sean Casten in Illinois&#8217; red-to-blue 6th Congressional district.<\/p>\n<p>Sean is running as a climate hawk scientist, cleantech entrepreneur, and job creator&#8211;and against a science-denying Republican, Peter Roskam, who calls climate change \u201cjunk science.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Sean has specialized in combined heat and power, a technology that involves turning \u201cwasted\u201d heat into power, sometimes achieving double the energy efficiency of the overall US electric grid. He\u2019s chaired a combined heat and power trade association, and testified to Congress on its benefits. And cleantech nerds will delight in his well-crafted, detailed energy\/climate policy. <\/p>\n<p>RL Miller, president of Climate Hawks Vote, states: &#8220;Sean has already been endorsed by two distinguished members of our board of directors: Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, and Jigar Shah, founder of SunEdison. Bill says: &#8216;Sean has the right combination of feistiness and knowledge to make him a force for the good in DC.&#8217; And Jigar says: &#8216;Sean is more than a scientist. He\u2019s a practical entrepreneur and we need his experience in Congress to encourage clean energy projects.&#8217; Equally important, Climate Hawks Vote members in the district overwhelmingly preferred him to all of the other candidates put together. In our in-district survey, 79% of the people responding voted for him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago suburban seat is a \u201cClinton-Republican\u201d district, meaning that in 2016 the district voted for both the Democratic candidate for President and the Republican incumbent in Congress&#8211;and now it\u2019s a top target for Democrats in 2018. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate Hawks Vote has this press release:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5026],"tags":[5059,5060],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Casten-for-Congress-IL06-Banner-1024x683.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-7q0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28522,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28520\/revisions\/28522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}