Illinois Republican introduces 'Let's Start With You Act' mocking left's green energy hypocrisy

An Illinois Republican state senator has introduced a bill mocking a law signed by Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker that removes local control over wind and solar power facility zoning — while leaving it intact in Democrat-dominated Chicago.

State Sen. Chapin Rose told Just the News that he introduced the "If This Is Such A Good Idea, Let's Start With You Act" not as legislation intended to pass but as "political sarcasm designed to shine light on the hypocrisy of the left."

The parody legislation proposed turning Chicago tourist mecca Millenium Park into a solar energy facility, with the exception of the park's iconic Cloud Gate sculpture, on which the city "must mount one wind energy turbine." The bill would also require every Cook County forest preserve to have multiple wind energy facilities.

Rose introduced the legislation after Pritzker signed a bill last month stripping county governments of authority over renewable energy zoning...






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This is great! It’s good to see democrat hypocrisy thrown in their faces and exposed. They deserve the ridicule and mocking of their actions.

 

Well done! A great bill.

 

I don't see it as hypocrisy since Chicago has about 11 times the population of the next largest city in the state, but whatever.

 

I don't get it. What was the point of this alleged bill?

 

And that excuses the county it’s in from the requirements regarding green energy demanded of other counties in what way?

 

To point out the hypocrisy of democrats making demands of down state counties while exempting their own from the same rules.

 

Is that the job of a legislator? Stupid, money and time wasting bill writing to garner favor among the fringe?

I mean, your premise would rely on an accurate portrayal of the original bill cited briefly in the right wing fringe blog your OP quotes, which seems unlikely.

But doesn't this just represent the dumbing down of discourse in this country? Where making a minor headline to appeal to some odd extremist group displaces being morally right or intellectually informed?

 

Their own what?

 

The issue is about setbacks. Chicago can continue to develop its own requirements based on their circumstances. If you don't see the difference between a highly densely populated city maybe needing more latitude about where crap can or cannot be situated than much smaller cities or rural areas, you are thinking with your partisanship more so than looking at it objectively. Chicago's population density of about 12K people per square mile is about three times what it is in the next largest city

 

Democrats made this justifiable by the horrors in the bill they passed taking away local control over green energy projects in red counties while exempting the big blue ones. It’s rank hypocrisy and it’s great that it’s being called out, publicized, and mocked nation wide. The bill was perfect.

 

I think that the smaller cities and counties can figure out their local situations on their own too. They don’t need Chicago and the state telling them what to do or how to do it.

 

Okay

 

And I think you see this as the left shoving something down people's throats when it is the opposite. It is stopping activists from being able to tell farmers and such what they can do with their own land. If they want a solar farm, so be it.

 

You have it backwards. It is activists who are trying to force this down farmers throats over their objections.

 

I wonder if you, being pro oil and such, would like an oil refinery built behind your house? Be honest.

 

I would not like any industrial or energy facility behind my house. We have zoning laws to protect residential areas from the like. Those things should be in places zoned for manufacturing, industry, etc, not in residential, commercial, or agricultural areas.

 

Yeah, Biden letting in 5 million illegals doesn't cost us a penny. That's the kind of governance we need!