Voters are angry, and Pete Maysmith wants the League of Conservation Voters to help them.
Maysmith, 56, took charge in April as president of LCV, the environmental group that makes its mark chiefly by working to elect politicians — most of them Democratic — who agree with the movement’s positions. He took over for Gene Karpinski, who led the group for nearly two decades.
Maysmith, a Colorado native and former head of LCV affiliate Conservation Colorado, sees an electorate facing higher costs across the board and itching for a way to do something about it. And he thinks LCV can play a role.
“We’re doing a much, much better job of standing shoulder to shoulder and connecting with people, understanding why they’re pissed, understanding why they’re upset, understanding what they want people to be standing up for and then doing that,” he told POLITICO’s E&E News in an interview at the group’s downtown Washington office.
