Washington Governor - Moderation vs. solutions on Puget Sound UPDATE1

You don't want to believe any Republican who claims to support cleanup and restoration of Puget Sound. It is by definition empty rhetoric.

The basic - extreme - positions held by the bulk of the party are fundamentally incompatible with the goal of a clean, healthy Puget Sound.

We can reduce what it means to being a Republican to two simplistic things:

Remember the environment?

Tonight is the first head-to-head debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney, but when was the last time you heard either of them address environmental issues directly? The Nation's Mark Hertsgaard has an excellent set of questions they both should answer, gathered from leading U.S. environmentalists:

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