Santa Fe Mayor David Coss
The Democratic mayor and legislature of a New Mexico city hundreds of miles from the southern leg of the Keystone pipeline on Thursday officially endorsed illegal activity as a means to stop the pipeline’s continued construction.
The Santa Fe, N.M., city council voted on Thursday to endorse “civil disobedience” as a means to urge President Barack Obama to reject Canadian oil company TransCanada’s application with the State Department for the construction of the pipeline’s northern leg.
The city council “strongly support [sic] public expression of resistance to approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline, up to and including peaceful, nonviolent and dignified expressions of civil disobedience,” the resolution states.
Santa Fe mayor David Coss introduced the measure. Coss is a member of the gun control group Mayors Against Illegal Guns. While other members of the group have been charged with or convicted of crimes, Coss appears to be the first to have explicitly endorsed illegal activity in his capacity as mayor.
