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February 12, 2015 by Sunday Aborisade, Abuja 12 Comments

The spokesman for the All Progressives Congress members in the senate, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, on Thursday, denied alleging that Senate President, David Mark, secretly met with senators seeking their support for the extension of President Goodluck Jonathans tenure beyond May 29, 2015.

Rather, Ojudu, who issued a statement in Abuja said he merely observed while making a speech at an event that Marks statement which stressed the need to win the insurgency war first before talking about the election, made him to believe that the elections would be postponed.

He said,My attention has been drawn to a report in ThisDay newspaper that quoted me to have said that the Senate President Senator David Mark called Senators to a meeting to request their support for the extension of the regimes tenure.

I never said that. What I said was that when we came back from last years summer break the president gave a speech where he said, left to him the defeat of Boko Haram should be the nations priority now and not an election.

And I said from that moment on I began to feel that the elections as fixed for February may not hold since the nation may not have overcome Boko Haram by then.

This was the only time I mentioned Mark in the close to 30 minutes speech that I gave. I called the reporter Mr Gboyega Adesanmi to complain about this earlytodayat about 5.00amand he promised to make amends.

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Mark never met senators on tenure elongation Ojudu

Interim Tory Leader scolds Liberals
Interim Progressive Conservative Leader Jim Wilson turns up the attack on the Liberal government as the spring session of the legislature is to begin Tuesday.

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After trying and failing to make the Koch brothers the focus of the mid-term election, Democrats are digging deeper into the billionaire brothers operations to combat their prodigious fundraising and making them the focus once again of the 2016 election.

Representatives of several powerful Democratic groups from unions to abortion rights activists and environmentalists gathered behind closed doors on Tuesday to take the next steps in plotting a strategy for dealing with Charles and David Kochs plan to raise and spend more than $889 million over the next two years.

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They emerged with a commitment to expand their rapid-response and research teams to fight back against the Kochs political agenda, according to attendees. And the host of the meeting, the well-funded opposition-research group American Bridge, has been pouring resources into a series of state reports that will focus on the Koch brothers business practices environmental record, layoffs and outsourcing and their impact in key states such as Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Ohio and Wisconsin for Democrats to use in campaigns nationwide.

There was only one problem: Pro-Democratic outside groups representing some of the same interests spent millions in 2014 trying to draw attention to the Kochs and lost almost every election in which they intervened. But with a more collaborative and thorough approach this time around, outside groups and party leaders are hoping that their anti-Koch strategy will move voters in 2016.

At the meeting Tuesday evening, representatives from groups such as AFL-CIO, Center for American Progress, Americans for Responsible Solutions, Correct the Record and Planned Parenthood heard from experts including Paul Tencher who served as campaign manager for now-Sen. Gary Peters and Guy Molyneux of Hart Research, who presented polling data showing that direct attacks on the Koch brothers could be effective.

Facing criticism from some within the party after millions of dollars spent on anti-Koch ads yielded few wins, Democrats have repeatedly used Peters 2014 race in Michigan as the prime example of how their Koch messaging can be successful.

Tencher gave a presentation to the roughly 70 attendees, explaining how the campaign was able to hit Peters opponent, Terri Lynn Land, by connecting her to the Koch brothers and encouraged groups to use the strategy more in 2016.

Outside groups involved in the race also hammered Land using the same approach. For example, the super PAC created by mega donor, environmentalist Tom Steyer spent heavily on ads in Michigan connecting the piles of petroleum coke contaminating the Detroit River area to the Koch brothers and Land.

At this weeks meeting, attendees said Democrats were in agreement that although they lost the Senate and several seats in the House, the Koch strategy was not to blame. Its not a black and white thing, said Ben Ray, spokesman for American Bridge.

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This is the third article in a three-part series titled Your Brain on Energy for ournew Energy and Environment coverage. For Part I, click here. For Part II, clickhere.

In San Diego, the solar rooftop market is booming. And no wonder: Electricity is expensive, but sunshine is plentiful and it doesnt hurt that California has shined itspolicy radianceon the solar industry. The city boasts more than 44,000 residential solar installations and most strikingly, theyre not all owned by liberal do-gooders.

Not by a long shot.

Instead, as solar has become more popular, it has increasingly tapped into a base of more ideologically conservative customers,according to the Center for Sustainable Energy, a local nonprofit supporting clean power.

When it was more of a fringe technology, you would see anatural gravitation towards the technology by people who are more liberal, says Timothy Treadwell, a director at the center. Now that solar is mainstream, that distinction, and that kindof self-selection, is pretty much gone from the market.

So what happened? Treadwell recently surveyed1,200 San Diego area solar adopters about their political beliefs and why theyhad installed solar. Liberals and conservatives were evenly mixed in the group. Their reasons for installing panels were verydifferent: While liberals were much more likely to do so for environmental reasons, conservatives held to hard-nosed economicones, like reducing their electricity costs.

The conservatives have come around, in Treadwells view, because they heard the right message. It wentfrom being viewed as a nice thing to do for the planet, and it turned into this very clear, understandable value proposition,he says. If youre paying hundreds of dollars a month for electricity, why wouldnt you do it?

Which may be the key to something of holy grail in the energy sphere getting political conservatives to participate in environmentalor energy conservation programs and behaviors to the same extent that liberals do.

The left, the right, and power

When it comes to saving energy, lets face it: Liberals and especially liberal environmentalists are already on board.Research has shownthey are (not surprisingly) more likely to buy Priuses and conserve gasoline, and appear to useless energy overall 10 percent less than those who are politically conservative and live in conservative communities.

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The best way to get conservatives to save energy: Talk about money

This is the third article in a three-part series titled Your Brain on Energy for ournew Energy and Environment coverage. For Part I, click here. For Part II, clickhere.

In San Diego, the solar rooftop market is booming. And no wonder: Electricity is expensive, but sunshine is plentiful and it doesnt hurt that California has shined itspolicy radianceon the solar industry. The city boasts more than 44,000 residential solar installations and most strikingly, theyre not all owned by liberal do-gooders.

Not by a long shot.

Instead, as solar has become more popular, it has increasingly tapped into a base of more ideologically conservative customers,according to the Center for Sustainable Energy, a local nonprofit supporting clean power.

When it was more of a fringe technology, you would see anatural gravitation towards the technology by people who are more liberal, says Timothy Treadwell, a director at the center. Now that solar is mainstream, that distinction, and that kindof self-selection, is pretty much gone from the market.

So what happened? Treadwell recently surveyed1,200 San Diego area solar adopters about their political beliefs and why theyhad installed solar. Liberals and conservatives were evenly mixed in the group. Their reasons for installing panels were verydifferent: While liberals were much more likely to do so for environmental reasons, conservatives held to hard-nosed economicones, like reducing their electricity costs.

The conservatives have come around, in Treadwells view, because they heard the right message. It wentfrom being viewed as a nice thing to do for the planet, and it turned into this very clear, understandable value proposition,he says. If youre paying hundreds of dollars a month for electricity, why wouldnt you do it?

Which may be the key to something of holy grail in the energy sphere getting political conservatives to participate in environmentalor energy conservation programs and behaviors to the same extent that liberals do.

The left, the right, and power

When it comes to saving energy, lets face it: Liberals and especially liberal environmentalists are already on board.Research has shownthey are (not surprisingly) more likely to buy Priuses and conserve gasoline, and appear to useless energy overall 10 percent less than those who are politically conservative and live in conservative communities.

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The best way to get conservatives to save energy is to stop the environmentalist preaching