Among the tactics by which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hopes to draw voters, such as Oak Park Democrats, from Biden are his credentials as an environmentalist, based on his work cleaning up New York’s Hudson River. Don’t believe it.
Get the facts about Kennedy’s involvement with Riverkeeper, the organization that spearheaded the Hudson’s rescue from toxic pollution: read the Washington Post’s March 2, 2024, article “How RFK Jr. Hiring a Bird Smuggler Threw His Environmental Group into Turmoil.” According to award-winning journalist Peter Jamison, Kennedy has consistently demonstrated qualities that should alarm thoughtful voters: “obstinacy, an itch to challenge authority, a mastery of scientific minutiae that is paradoxically coupled with a loose allegiance to facts.”
No wonder he is the champion of conspiracy thinking, from his claim that COVID-19 vaccines cause autism to his assertion that the U.S. and Switzerland have comparable per-capita gun ownership numbers (it’s actually 120.5 per 100 in the U.S. versus 27.6 in Switzerland).
A vote for Kennedy is a vote for Trump. Biden’s record as an environmentalist trumps both.
Wendy Greenhouse
Oak Park