2009-09-30
GOP Champion of Carbon Tax Legislation, Booed in District of Criticizing Glenn Beck. By James Rosen, McClatchy, September 28, 2009. "Rep. Bob Inglis is paying the price for independent thinking... [He] may been the only GOP lawmaker in the country who was booed lustily by his own [South Carolina] constituents at town hall meetings last month... Despite a broadly conservative voting record, Inglis has angered many Republican activists with his contrarian stands on a handful of high-profile issues... Inglis has been one of the few Republican lawmakers to view global warming as a crisis, introducing a bill that would tax carbon emissions. Now, Inglis has further incited Upstate activists with his vote to punish fellow South Carolina Republican Joe Wilson for yelling 'you lie!' at Obama during an address to Congress... Inglis said he'd supported the measure because Wilson had violated House personal conduct rules and then rebuffed requests to apologize to his colleagues."
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