Example sentences for: lcv
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These were 1985 and 1986, when Gore cast four "anti-environment" votes, earning a combined LCV score of 67 (Gore's third-worst Senate score); and 1991, when Gore cast another four "anti-environment" votes, earning an LCV score of 73 (Gore's fourth-worst Senate score).
Instead, Chatterbox zeroed in on the two years when Gore cast considerably more votes considered "anti-environment" by the LCV than he did in other years.
The Broder article (or, more likely, the Friends of the Earth handout that Broder was paraphrasing) slightly botched the two candidates' respective scores from the League of Conservation Voters (LCV)--whose ratings go pretty much unquestioned within the environmental movement.
Gore voted in favor of a solar satellite program that the environmental movement opposed (according to the LCV, because it was "costly and grandiose"); Gore voted against the National Energy Act of 1978 , which the LCV favored because it included a lot of conservation measures, but which some environmentalists opposed, because it also decontrolled natural gas prices; and Gore voted to create the Synthetic Fuels Corp. , an ill-considered and short-lived alternative fuel venture opposed by environmentalists because it involved strip-mining.
But the claim that Bradley had a much better LCV score than Gore is quite true.