Kerry: Trying to use oil drilling money to buy votes for his climate swindle bill?

Obama's offshore drilling push shakes up fight over climate bill - The Hill's E2-Wire

Kerry believes wider drilling is part of a recipe for Senate passage.

“In the difficult work of putting together a 60 vote coalition to price carbon, Senator Kerry has put aside his own long-time policy objections and been willing to explore potential energy sources off our coasts as part of a suite of alternative solutions,” Kerry spokeswoman Whitney Smith said Wednesday.
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Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), a centrist swing vote in the climate fight, on Wednesday applauded the plan to proceed with leasing off Virginia’s coast – but reiterated his call for Virginia to receive a share of the money.

“This policy should be coupled with a fair and equitable formula for profit-sharing between the federal and state government in order to attract well-paying jobs to the Commonwealth and support a range of projects, from clean energy development to transportation infrastructure to coastal restoration,” Webb said.

Kerry, Graham and Lieberman plan to include “revenue sharing” in their bill, according to Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) – who has been briefed on the brewing legislation – and several published reports. Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Alabama already won revenue sharing under the 2006 law.