Van Jones tapped as Green Czar
Karl Burkart breaks the news that Green activist Van Jones has been confirmed as President Obama's "Green Czar".
Photo credit: Flickr user Center for American Progress Here's Karl:
I just received texts from two people close to Van Jones and the word is in…he was just confirmed yesterday as the “Green Czar” overseeing the allocation of green jobs money in the stimulus bill, with a likely focus on energy retrofits.
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Shea, does it bother you that Mr. Jones seems to be an extremely intolerant person? I knokw he wrote a good book and he is PC on green jobs, but couldn't President Obama bring someone on who doesn't call Republicans vulgar names, isn't an avowed/reformed communist, and who claims white people want to poison people of color?
There are so many good people fighting the good fight why support this mean spirited, racist person? If a white person said these things his career would be.... More
Dear Shea, Van Jones is SO paranoid that my little blog here caused him, or someone on behalf of him, to CHANGE the Wikipedia biography, ESPECIALLY AT THE END. His bio had mentioned 3/4 way down that he was a founder and leader of STORM which is a VERY STRONGLY COMMUNIST AND MARXIST organization. Now the mention of STORM has been moved to the "end of Van Jones' biography in Wikipedia", AND HAS BEEN ALTERED to call STORM a "dreamed of multiracial socialist utopia". That brings it all full.... More
Read the end of Van Jones' biography in Wickipedia. He openly states that he is a Communist. Also, Van Jones began the Apollo Alliance, that's the SAME Apollo Alliance who helped to write the Emergency Stimulus Package which Obama hurried through Congress. Only a small portion of the "Stimulus Package" has been spent. Now billions of dollars are waiting to be spent, by WHOM? Van Jones is an unelected, unquestioned, unexamined but highly influential force upon Obama, the current.... More
I'm not going to state that I disagree, because I completely do.. however, keep in mind that wikipedia is an "open" website where anyone can log on and update their personal feelings or beliefs to anyones profile. Try to stay close to websites with .gov or .edu nothing .com or .net
No, his Wikipedia entry contains a quote where he describes how he WAS a communist at one specific point nearly 20 years ago. His thinking has evolved as he's gotten older and he's now fighting for social justice from an environmental angle. I like his strong activist voice, the world needs people like that to fight against the entrenched pollute-as-usual status quo.
I know it must be very easy on the mind to view things through "he's a communist!", but the world is more complex than.... More
Oh !! Van Jones "was" a communist at some time 20 years ago, but now he is not??? His thinking has "evolved"???? Well not so evolved that 6 months ago he is till calling republicans a-holes when he gets in front a sympathetic audience. Yeh - really evolved. Come on, get real. Leopards don't change their spots, but a chameleon does, that is exactly what they do, change their outward presentation to best fit into what ever environment they finds themselves, but inside they are still the.... More
read a little better he, Van Jones maintained these veiws for at least 20 years and in all probability still has them what a white wash job ))
http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&...
The article states, "I just received texts from two people close to Van Jones and the word is in…he was just confirmed yesterday as the “Green Czar” overseeing the allocation of green jobs money in the stimulus bill, with a likely focus on energy retrofits."
Confirmed? With Sotomayor going through the confirmation process, I must have missed the confirmation by Congress of the green Czar, Van Jones.
great guy, told us at the national conference for media reform to hold obama's feet to the fire, so i know he will, too.
van jones is an incredible story. he is a fantastic choice.
