“Dan is proud of the role he played in making North Carolina the second in the nation for solar power,” says the campaign of congressional candidate Dan McCready.

This isn’t empty bragging. McCready, a Democrat, advanced North Carolina’s reliance on solar power in two ways: first, by investing millions in solar farms, and second, by supporting the lobbying effort to force North Carolinians to buy their electricity from those solar farms.

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