The green left, which wields enormous financial clout in the Democratic Party, wants to stop fracking in the United States. With San Francisco hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer in the lead with his promise of $50 million of his own money (and another 50 mill from his fiends) for candidates opposed to fracking, party bigshots naturally want to stand against this form of energy production. Until voters speak, that is. Colorado Democrats thought they had a nice little deal going, with a pair of anti-fracking ballot initiatives slated for November. Marita Noon of epaabuse.com explains what happened to those plans after an election in neighboring New Mexico: In April 2013, the Mora County Commission voted 2 to 1 and passed the first-in-the-nation county-wide ban on all oil-and-gas drilling. It was spearheaded by Commission Chairman John Olivas. Since then, two lawsuits have been filed against the little county because of the anti-drilling ordinance. A little more...(Read Full Post)