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In October 2010, Civitas Action spent $5,750 on mailers targeting North Carolina House Speaker [[Joe Hackney]] and Senate leader [[Marc Basnight]], Democrats who have been supportive of efforts to address [[global warming]]. Hackney led the state's [[climate change]] commission for a time before appointing in his place Rep. [[Pricey Harrison]] (D), one of the legislature's strongest environmental advocates. Basnight has talked about his concern that global warming and associated sea rise could inundate the region and supports a move to [[clean energy]] sources. [[Frances De Luca]], president of the Civitas Institute and the former state director of the North Carolina chapter of [[Americans for Prosperity]], has said more mailers are planned.<ref name=ss>Sue Sturgis, [http://www.southernstudies.org/2010/10/a-pope-of-climate-denial.html "A Pope of climate denial"] Facing South, October 26, 2010.</ref>
Running against 15-term Hackney is Cathy Wright, a nursing instructor who's also worked as a lobbyist for medical groups. Her campaign manager did not respond to Facing South's request for information about her position on climate change. But Wright does say she's a member of the [[Conservative Womens Forum]], which promotes a book calling global warming a "scam" and is critical of clean energy solutions from [[cap-and trade]] legislation to [[wind power]] to the promotion of compact-fluorescent light bulbs. Additionally, her campaign website links directly to both the [[John Locke Foundation ]] and the Civitas Institute. Basnight's opponent is [[Hood Richardson]], a retired minerals geologist and commissioner for Beaufort County, N.C. Richardson calls global warming a "problem that has since been debunked as based on faulty science." He also criticizes Basnight for helping create the state climate change commission, saying it will "severely harm businesses." He cites the [[John Locke Foundation]] for his assertions.<ref name=ss/>
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