{"id":1686908,"date":"2022-10-12T15:22:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T19:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1686908"},"modified":"2022-10-12T15:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T19:22:18","slug":"flower-power-az-dem-wants-to-convert-military-resources-to-fight-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flower-power-az-dem-wants-to-convert-military-resources-to-fight-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Flower Power: AZ Dem Wants to \u2018Convert\u2019 Military Resources to Fight Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflower-power-az-dem-wants-to-convert-military-resources-to-fight-climate-change%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1686908&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/\">Elections<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Kirsten Engel&#8217;s views could hurt her chances to flip a pro-military district<\/p>\n<p>    Kirsten Engel (Campaign Website)   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/chuck-ross\/\" title=\"Posts by Chuck Ross\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Chuck Ross<\/a> \u2022 October 12, 2022 3:10 pm  <\/p>\n<p>As an environmental law professor, Arizona House candidate Kirsten Engel (D.) touted a manifesto that calls for demilitarizing America\u2019s &#8220;national security systems&#8221; and using the resources to fight climate change.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a stance that would likely not go over well in the Democrat\u2019s military-friendly district.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=xH-4DwAAQBAJ&#038;pg=PA3&#038;lpg=PA3&#038;dq=%22kirsten+engel%22+%22population+reduction%22&#038;source=bl&#038;ots=eax2saRvG_&#038;sig=ACfU3U2BikV_4uZUK09OsmqRS9s-JQPNuw&#038;hl=en&#038;sa=X&#038;ved=2ahUKEwjio46RvNb6AhWPj4kEHZaQAwYQ6AF6BAgVEAM#v=onepage&#038;q=%22kirsten%20engel%22%20%22population%20reduction%22&#038;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">book<\/a>, Engel and two co-authors praised the Earth Charter, an international declaration that lays a vision for a &#8220;just, sustainable, and peaceful world.&#8221; The document, which Engel\u2019s father helped draft in 2000, calls to &#8220;demilitarize national security systems&#8221; and &#8220;convert military resources to peaceful purposes, including ecological restoration.&#8221; Engel\u2019s book features an essay from her father, Ron Engel, in which he urges a &#8220;substantial redistribution of wealth&#8221; across the nations of the world to implement the Charter\u2019s utopian vision. To forge world peace, the elder Engel called to &#8220;challenge the ambitions for \u2018full spectrum dominance\u2019 of the United States,&#8221; a reference to the United States military\u2019s doctrine of superiority.<\/p>\n<p>Engel and her co-authors said her father\u2019s work was &#8220;the inspiration behind this book and its contributors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat\u2019s endorsement of the Earth Charter and her father\u2019s writings could raise questions at home in Tucson, where the military and defense industry provides tens of thousands of jobs. Davis-Monthan Air Force Base supports 16,000 jobs in the Tucson area and contributes $2.5 billion to the local economy. Raytheon, the aerospace giant, is Tucson\u2019s largest private employer, with more than 12,000 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Engel, a law professor at the University of Arizona, has embraced other controversial progressive causes that could hinder her efforts to flip Arizona\u2019s sixth district. She <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/arizona-dem-praised-radical-immigration-group-that-harassed-sinema\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">solicited donations<\/a> in 2020 for a criminal justice nonprofit that paid bail for criminals who later committed violent crimes. She took a pledge during the Democratic primary this year to support reparations for slavery, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/arizona-dem-signed-anti-cop-activists-slavery-reparations-pledge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. On the environmental front, she said in 2009 that governments need to &#8220;make it a pain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an environmental law professor, Arizona House candidate Kirsten Engel (D.) touted a manifesto that calls for demilitarizing America\u2019s &#8220;national security systems&#8221; and using the resources to fight climate change.<br \/>\nThe post Flower Power: AZ Dem Wants to \u2018Convert\u2019 Military Resources to Fight Climate Change appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1686908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1686908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}