Dupage Policy Journal

Keith Pekau for Congress has issued the following press release:

September 27, 2022 -  Yesterday, the Washington Free Beacon reported the House disclosures on Sean Casten’s travel. 

According to the report, “Sean Casten, who has called the climate ‘crisis’ a ‘code red emergency,’ flew roughly 6,000 miles and stayed in a luxury European hotel to fight global warming, House disclosures show…  The trip saw Casten fly business class from Chicago to Reykjavík, Iceland, and back—a trek that totals 5,888 miles and more than 313,000 pounds of carbon, given that planes on average produce 53.3 pounds of carbon dioxide per mile traveled.

“Casten, who is known as Congress’s “fiercest climate hawk,” has said members of Congress “have a duty to do everything we can” to provide “our children and grandchildren” with a “livable planet.” In the case of his Iceland trip, however, Casten almost certainly did not need to travel thousands of miles on a gas-guzzling flight to meet with many of the climate “leaders” the Aspen Institute assembled…”

Sean Casten is funding a luxury lifestyle on the backs of working men and women. This report comes on top of his push for billions of dollars in green energy spending that directly benefited  the green energy company in which he is a stakeholder. 

Mayor Keith Pekau, Casten’s opponent for the IL-06 congressional seat said, “Sean Casten is disingenuous and hypocritical on climate change. The only impact he has had in Congress has been on his own bottom line. The combination of Casten’s insolent self-dealing and Biden’s distressing incompetence has been a disaster. I am running for Congress to restore common sense leadership to Washington DC.”