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Green Czar Van Jones Resigns

by mshoffner | September 5, 2009 at 09:59 pm

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It has been announced that President Obama's Green Czar has resigned his position. Mr. Jones has been surrounded by controversy for years. He entered into college toting a Black Panther book bag. He has been listed as a member of the Communist party,and has made derogatory comments about Republicans, calling them a**holes. He has also been rumored (unsubstantiated) to have had a part in the attacks of 9/11/2001.

There is a local angle here in Indiana. Rep. Mike Pence was one of the first to request that Mr. Jones tender his recognition.

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Blue Crush

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at 22:37 on September 5th, 2009

mshoffner, thanks for getting this story out so quickly. It will now show up on the home page for four hours. If new developments justify it, I'll renew this flag for another cycle.

amyjudd

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at 07:38 on September 6th, 2009

mshoffner, I'm sorry but this is completely copied from The Examiner. As we spoke about at lenght yesterday, you cannot post here like this without the use of the highlight tool. If you have any complaints about that, please feel free to message Tina Kells about it and she will explain why.

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Blue Crush

at 22:40 on September 5th, 2009

In a statement, Jones, who had worked at the White House as special adviser for green jobs since March, acknowledged that he had become a lightning rod for criticism. With the administration's hands full trying to push through controversial legislation on health care and energy, Jones said that opponents of reform had decided to launch "a vicious smear campaign" against him.

"They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide," he said. "I have been inundated with calls -- from across the political spectrum -- urging me to 'stay and fight.' But I came here to fight for others, not for myself. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future."

The_Cynic

at 23:02 on September 5th, 2009

Jones, well-known in the environmental movement, was a civil-rights activist in California before shifting his attention to environmental and energy issues. He is known for laying out a broad vision of a green economy.

Nancy Sutley chair of the council, said in a statement released early Sunday that she accepts Jones resignation and thanked him for his service.

"Over the last six months, he had been a strong voice for creating jobs that improve energy efficiency and utilize renewable resources," she said. "We appreciate his hard work and wish him the best moving forward."

albertacowpoke

at 05:24 on September 6th, 2009

Van Jones, the onetime Marxist whose controversial statements about Republicans and 9/11 have made him a distracting lightning rod as Barack Obama's environmental jobs czar in recent days, resigned tonight.

Now, the Sunday morning political talk shows (guest listings here) will have something really hot to talk about.

On Wednesday, as The Ticket reported here, Jones was forced to apologize when a video surfaced of his February remarks in Berkeley, of all places, using a reference to a lower anatomical orifice to describe Republicans.

The next day Jones again had to apologize for having his signature on a petition to then N.Y. Attorney General Eliot Spitzer seeking an investigation into the 9/11 attacks as possibly an inside job planned by then-Pres. George W. Bush to soften opposition to a war in Iraq.

On another video here Jones was seen mocking Bush physically and rhetorically as "a crackhead" for his addiction to petroleum.