Hilary Franz may seem normal at first, but if you get her talking about public lands, sustainability, urban sprawl, and climate change, she turns into ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE HULK. In a good way. A great way. Franz is the executive director of statewide environmental group Futurewise, wants to invest in clean-energy jobs, and opposes dangerous crude-by-rail transport. She fucking gets it. Her opponent, Steve McLaughlin, on the other hand, supported the Bundy ranchers’ armed standoff with the federal government, is listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an extremist, and believes in the Tea Party’s wacky conspiracy theory that the UN is trying to take over America with mass transit and bike lanes. (Seriously, just Google “Agenda 21.”)
