Pence denied request to help Carrier in 2014
Mike Pence did the deal and Trump took the credit, but when he had the chance Pence wouldn’t help them.
Click here for reuse options!Vice President-elect Mike Pence reportedly refused to help Carrier in 2014 when he denied a request from the company to veto a bill rolling back Indiana’s energy efficiency program.
Carrier’s parent company, United Technologies Corp. – along with GE, Johnson Controls and Honeywell – asked Pence in a joint letter sent in March 2014 to not support the bill, Politico reported Thursday.
In the letter, the group said that rolling back the energy program would take away about 380 direct jobs and more than 1,200 indirect jobs.The request was focused on protecting the Energizing Indiana program. The program gave buyers reduced costs for lighting products, free residential walk-through efficiency audits and rebates for installing energy efficiency equipment, according to the report.
“Jobs have been lost and we’re not seeing the kind of investment and the kind of energy savings that we saw when we had Energizing Indiana and the efficiency targets in place,” said Kerwin Olson, executive director of Citizens Action Coalition, one of the groups that fought to keep the program, according to Politico.
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mea_mark December 2nd, 2016 at 10:03
I guess the ‘Energizing Indiana program’ helped too many poor people and that just isn’t the kind of thing Pence is interested in. Now we have the orange one that found a way to turn into an ego stroke fest for himself. Yup, America is going to be great again thanks to the ego stroker … at least in his delusions.
whatthe46 December 2nd, 2016 at 16:00
tRump has stock in Carrier’s parent company. this has nothing to do with the working class of IN.
mistlesuede December 2nd, 2016 at 10:25
Perhaps this had something to do with his 34% approval rating in his state?
anothertoothpick December 2nd, 2016 at 12:15
34% approval rate in the bible belt?
Maybe he is too much of an xtian supremacist.
mistlesuede December 2nd, 2016 at 18:11
I think it might also be due to all of his attacks on women’s rights like passing a law to force women who have miscarriages or abortions to have funerals for their fetus. Things like that, you know?
Buford2k11 December 2nd, 2016 at 10:45
ok…so much for our government not interfering with who wins or who loses…he just showed corporate America, that trump can be conned himself, while conning the rest of the nation…yep, this is gonna get real…the poor lose again…
whatthe46 December 2nd, 2016 at 15:59
get this, tRump has an investment in Carrier’s parent company. no conflict of interest there right?
amersham1046 December 2nd, 2016 at 17:16
Just toed the Trump line, like a good little trooper he is
robert December 3rd, 2016 at 00:12
RTW people are like that except if they are asked to be VPs