Missing The Mark: ‘Not the Leadership This Moment Calls For’: Progressives Slam Pelosi For Pushing ‘Weak’ Climate Panel Over Bold Green New Deal Committee
“The party of the resistance is recklessly taking the path of least resistance on climate and inequality.” By Jake Johnson Common Dreams (12/28/18) Following presumptive House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) official announcementon Friday that Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) will chair the new Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, progressives accused the Democratic leadership of moving ahead with a “weak” congressional panel instead of listening to grassroots demands for a more bold and visionary Green New Deal Select Committee. Justice Democrats—an advocacy group that helped organize recent mobilizations in support of a Green New Deal—declared in a statement that the Democratic leadership appears dead-set…