September 30, 2014 04:15 PM UTC

From fake groups to false claims, Congressman Gardner proves he will stop at nothing to get elected

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• by: abbyleeper

Congressman Cory Gardner’s willingness to butcher the truth in order to get elected to the U.S. Senate is on full display this week as he's been grilled in an interview for lying about a federal personhood bill, called out for citing an organization that doesn't exist, and now, lying about his record on clean energy.

Since 2011, Gardner has been using his congressional website to double down on his bogus claims regarding his role in launching Colorado’s advanced energy sector. The website claims, “Cory created the Colorado Clean Energy Authority [CEDA], which brought millions of dollars of economic development to the state.”

These claims have since been debunked by the Associated Press, 9NEWS and the head of the Governor’s Energy Office. The truth is undeniable: CEDA did not bring in millions of dollars; it did not finance a single project, hire staff or even create a mission statement — and Congressman Gardner knows it.

“Congressman Gardner should be running as a Senator from the state of denial, not Colorado,” said Craig Hughes, a consultant to NextGen Climate Colorado. “His lies about the Colorado Clean Energy Authority, denial of the existence of a federal personhood bill he co-sponsored and his disagreement with the scientific consensus behind climate change taken together should give Coloradans serious reservations about his fitness for the job.”

Gardner’s bogus CEDA claim has been featured on his congressional website since he took office in 2011.

Gardner’s false claim regarding CEDA is among the latest in a string of lies that calls Gardner’s trustworthiness into question.  

On Sunday, KDVR aired an interview in which Congressman Gardner once again maintained that there is no such thing as a federal personhood bill—despite being a co-sponsor on the federal Life Begins at Conception Act. The Act has been called a personhood bill by Personhood USA, the bill’s authors and the nonpartisan website FactCheck.org and despite writers of the bill stating it is, in fact, a personhood bill.

Just today, news broke that a recent Cory Gardner for Senate mail piece claimed to have received support from the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists—an organization that does not exist.

NextGen Climate Colorado urges the media to press Congressman Gardner on these issues so that voters finally get the truth.