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Jen Kiggans Takes a “Sledgehammer” to Virginia Beach’s Energy Industry

Kiggans spent weeks posturing as a moderate who would protect energy tax credits – only to turn around and cast the deciding vote to cut them

Will the real Jen Kiggans please stand up? 

After pledging for weeks that she would not support cutting clean energy tax credits, Jen Kiggans sold out her constituents by casting the deciding vote to take a “sledgehammer” to Virginia beach’s energy industry.

Kiggans herself previously warned that the bill she just voted for could “provoke an energy crisis or cause higher energy bills for working families.”

REMINDER – Here’s what Jen Kiggans claimed she would do:
       

REALITY CHECK – Here’s what Jen Kiggans actually did: 


Translation: Jen Kiggans lied to Virginia Beach voters, and they will have to pay more because of her vote.

DCCC Spokesperson Eli Cousin:
“Jen Kiggans is no moderate. Her empty rhetoric can’t change the fact that she cast the deciding vote to repeal commonsense clean energy tax credits – a vote that will jack up energy costs, eliminate good-paying Virginia Beach jobs, and undermine energy security in Hampton Roads.”

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