Source: WRAL, 8/5/18

EDITOR’S NOTE: This news analysis first appeared in the Southeast Energy News.Elizabeth Ouzts, a former director of communications for Environment America, is a freelance writer based in Raleigh.
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One conservative blogger labeled Republican Bob Steinburg a “solar weenie” and called the wind farm in his northeastern North Carolina state House of Representatives district “Bob’s Windmills.” As anti-wind activists, bloggers and politicians rallied against his bid for state Senate, Steinburg declined advice from some to downplay his support for clean energy. In the end, he won his May primary handily, with the widest margins in counties where wind-farm foes had stirred the most controversy.

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