UN Fit to lead. Stop Kelly Knight Craft nomination.

UPDATE – Bad news: As expected the Senate Foreign relations committee voted to approve Kelly Craft to be UN Ambassador despite her being a corrupt, UN-qualified, climate denier.

Even more disturbing, Three Democrats — Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, Chris Coons and Chris Murphy— joined every Republican to approve her, despite the fact that she spent most of her time as Canadian Ambassador abandoning her post to spend time in Kentucky and Oklahoma, where she and her husband own several coal mines.

It’s bad enough that Craft is headed to the full Senate for Confirmation this week, where her old friend Mitch McConnell will try and ram through her nomination as a pay-back for all the dirty coal money she’s donated to Republican campaigns. But to think that Democrats might enable the Trump team’s lawless, corrupt, climate denying administration again after all we’ve seen in the last two years. Well, it makes me so mad I could spit nails.

But it hasn’t happened yet – if you haven’t already, please sign here to tell the Senate to reject Kelly Knight Craft’s nomination, she’s UN-fit to represent us at the United Nations. Then, use the share tools below, and/or call your Senator right away at (202) 224-3121 and tell them that Craft is UN-fit to represent us at the United nations.

Donald Trump has nominated Kelly Knight Craft, the wife of coal baron whose family still owns coal mines and is a major Republican donor, to be our next ambassador to the United Nations. This. Is. A. Terrible. Idea.

I don’t have to tell you that The United Nations (UN) is an essential partner in the global fight to stop climate chaos. The UN is the arbiter of the Paris climate agreement, and has unique leverage over the nations of the world to cut pollution and steer us toward a more just and sustainable future.

Kelly Knight Craft is a coal baron, a friend to Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump, and was given the plum assignment of US Ambassador to Canada basically because she has given a huge amount of money to Republican candidates and causes, including Trump. While serving as US Ambassador, she has frequently violated ethics rules and mores to a shocking (even in the Trump era) degree – skipping work at an alarming rate and charging taxpayers for expensive private jets. In one instance, an email from the EPA to Ambassador Craft was replied to by her husband, coal magnate Joseph Craft.

Sign here to tell the Senate to reject Kelly Knight Craft’s nomination, she’s UN-fit to represent us at the United Nations.

No only is Craft a corrupt swamp-monster with a financial stake in pollution, she’s a fair-weather Climate Denier. She previously claimed that she believes in “both sides of the science” when it comes to the climate. But in an attempt to salvage her nomination before the US Senate, she claimed to believe the science and called for action.

Oh and, not that it matters to the Trump team, but she’s wildly unqualified. UN Ambassadors have to negotiate and represent us every day with dozens of countries and heads of state. But Craft has virtually no diplomatic experience. She had a symbolic post under President George W. Bush and 18 months as US Ambassador to Canada.

And yet, as much of the country swelters under a record-setting heat wave, Congress will return next week and consider Craft’s nomination for a THIRD time. We’ve already seen what Rex Tillerson, the former Exxon CEO, did when given a chance to lead the state department. Or what Andrew Wheeler, a formal coal lobbyist, has done with leadership at the EPA

We deserve a UN Ambassador who will support solutions to climate change, believes in the importance of humanitarian aid, and will be at least physically present to make important decisions on the world stage.

Sign the petition: Demand the Senate reject Kelly Knight Craft’s nomination.