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Salazar, Wolf clash on oil shale
Congressman John Salazar, D-Colo., and his Republican opponent, Wayne Wolf, met for their first debate Wednesday night in Pueblo. And according to one local press report, the debate was a “gentlemanly affair.”
Wolf, according to The Pueblo Chieftain, criticized Salazar for taking a NIMBY tack on oil shale: “Congressman Salazar has been overly sympathetic to the not-in-my-backyard folks. On the Western Slope, the majority of the people see oil shale as being important to our economy.”
Salazar replied, as paraphrased by the newspaper, that he want “the oil industry to prove its technology before allowing more oil shale development — to avoid the boom-and-bust cycle of oil development that hit the area in the 1980s.”
All in all, the debate seemed a tame affair. In the political age of attack ads and slurs, that might actually have been refreshing to attend.
*Salazar photo from The Daily Sentinel archives.
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