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Green New Deal Names Oil-Friendly Texas Dem As 1st 2020 Primary Target [1]

"The campaigners behind the Green New Deal named Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), the eight-term congressman dubbed “Big Oil’s favorite Democrat,” as their first primary target of 2020.

Sunrise Movement, the youth-led nonprofit whose protests last year popularized the Green New Deal slogan, endorsed Jessica Cisneros, the 26-year-old immigration attorney mounting a progressive primary challenge against a conservative Democrat whose reelection campaign is heavily funded by the oil industry.

The endorsement marks a return to its roots for Sunrise Movement, which cut its teeth in the 2018 election campaigning for a slate of green populists, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.)."

Alexander C. Kaufman reports for HuffPost September 23, 2019. [2]

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Source: HuffPost [2], 09/23/2019
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/green-new-deal-names-oil-friendly-texas-dem-1st-2020-primary-target [2] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sunrise-movement-jessica-cisneros_n_5d881970e4b0957256b8ee5b [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics [6] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [7] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81