The National Republican Senatorial Committee put up a billboard Monday on Ford Road near Dearborn, criticizing U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and his stance on climate change.

In the billboard, the Republican organization criticized Peters and presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren for supporting the Green New Deal resolution which, they allege in a news release, aims to "raise the cost of meat consumption."

"Bernie, Liz Warren and Jerry Peters want to take your steak with their Green New Deal," the NRSC wrote on the billboard, using the wrong first name for Peters.

NRSC spokesman Nathan Brand said the error was intentional, due to the group's belief that "he is the most unknown senator in the country."

"Gary Peters' excitement for the 'Green New Deal' may be in line with the radical Democrats on the presidential debate stage, but their plans to tell Michiganders what they can eat for dinner is simply extreme," said Brand in a news release.

But is Peters planning to dictate dinner menus for Michigan families?

Democrats and Republicans have long been at odds while defining the implications of the Green New Deal, but the resolution itself, a nonbinding contract, only mentions "working collaboratively with farmers and ranchers in the United States to remove pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector."

No mention of beef, not even cows.

Peters himself did not vote for or against the resolution when it was debated on the Senate floor in February. He simply voted "present."

Alex Japko with Michigan Democrats says, "If the NRSC wants to keep wasting their money on phony attacks and dumb stunts like this, we're not going to stop them. No one even understands what they're talking about."

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