Posted on 03/15/2005 9:46:04 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Like many other FReepers, I subscribe to Kerry's email list to see what he is spewing out to his supporters.
Check out this beauty, which just arrived.
He wants to "save" the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. That's right, those evil Republicans would destroy it - by permitting drilling on less than 1/10th of 1% of its territory.
This is the Kerry (King of the SUV) who wants us to be less dependent on foreign oil?
Oh, and for the humor-starved among us today, you'll get a chuckle out of his claim that the Republicans are trying to "sneak" the legislation through! Yes, everyone knows that public debate has been stamped out in the Senate!
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Dear ,
We have only 24 to 48 hours to try and save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The Republicans are trying to sneak legislation through the Senate approving oil drilling and they are incredibly close to winning. We have to stop them.
I am joining with Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Washington) in offering a critical amendment to stop this sneak attack on our environment. We will fight on the floor of the Senate, but we need you by our side.
There are seven key Republican Senators whose votes will decide the future of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Before they vote, we need to make sure they know that their constituents are watching, and that they will not be able to support drilling without anybody noticing.
Here are two critical steps we can take together to support our amendment to protect this National Wildlife Refuge:
1. Join the Citizens' Roll Call First of all, take part in a massive fast-moving display of citizen support for the Arctic Refuge. Sign our Cantwell-Kerry Citizens' Roll Call now.
http://www.johnkerry.com/RollCall
To make our Citizens' Roll Call impossible to ignore, we have alerted the media, environmental advocates and my fellow Senators to a scrolling display of the names and home towns of the roll call signers. It is posted on our johnkerry.com website, where we hope to soon add your name and a running tally of the number of citizens on our Citizens' Roll Call.
2. Bring the fight to the home states of the seven senators We need to launch emergency online advertising campaigns in the home states of those seven critical senators: Senator Coleman (MN), Senator Smith (OR), Senator Specter (PA), Senator Martinez (FL), Senator Lugar (IN), and Senators Gregg and Sununu (NH).
We need your help to bring our Save the Arctic Refuge message home in these six states. Help us fund an emergency ad campaign to make sure they know how strongly the people they represent feel about protecting the Arctic. Please make an emergency donation right now.
http://contribute.johnkerry.com/
When Senator Cantwell, myself and other Senators stand up in support of the Cantwell-Kerry Amendment, we will have powerful arguments on our side. (I have recapped some of those arguments at the end of this email message)
But, to win, we need to be able to report directly to our Senate colleagues that massive numbers of citizens around the country - and in their own states - are rising up to demand that the Senate protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
That's why your immediate signature is so critical.
http://www.johnkerry.com/RollCall
The Bush Administration and its oil industry allies want to send a message that they can drill for oil wherever and whenever they want to - even if it means targeting a place as striking, pristine and irreplaceable as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
They don't care about putting America on a genuine path to energy independence. If they did, they'd support efforts to increase energy conservation and to create clean, renewable sources of energy that no terrorist can sabotage and no foreign government can seize.
Let me be very direct with you. It is going to take an immediate and impossible-to-ignore display of grassroots support to stop them. That's why your decision to sign our Cantwell-Kerry Amendment Citizens' Roll Call is so crucial.
Thank you for acting quickly on this vital request.
John Kerry
P.S. Senator Cantwell, who comes from a state in the heart of the Pacific Northwest, has - at considerable political risk - courageously stepped forward to join me in leading this fight. We need you to help us win it.
http://www.johnkerry.com/RollCall
HERE ARE YOUR SAVE THE ARCTIC REFUGE TALKING POINTS The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's 19 million acres comprise one of the last places on earth where an intact expanse of arctic and sub arctic lands remains protected. Drilling in the Arctic Refuge can't make even a small dent in meeting America's energy needs. U.S. Geological Survey scientists estimate that there is very likely only enough oil to supply America's needs for six months. And oil companies admit that, even that, won't be available for at least 10 years. An irreplaceable natural treasure, the Arctic Refuge is home to caribou, polar bears, grizzly bears, wolves, golden eagles, snow geese and more. Millions of other birds use the Arctic Refuge to nest and as a critical staging area on their migratory journeys. Of course, the Arctic Refuge supports more than wildlife. For a thousand generations, the Gwich'in people of Northeast Alaska and Northwest Canada have depended on it and lived in harmony with it. To them, the Arctic Coastal Plain is sacred ground.
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And a few snapshots of the tundra wouldn't hurt either. Pristine my a$$.
Kerry probably considers all proposed legislation "sneaky" because he's never on the job in the Senate when it comes up.
I would actually like to see if Kerry makes it to the Senate to debate this - he so rarely makes an appearance there
You mean like windmills?
F'n better get his butt up there to Polar Bear Alley, in order to demonstrate his resolve. "Good bear, goooooood bear!"
Bwahahaha! What an image you have presented ....
Caraboo??
Caraboo??
Well I drive from Houston to Lubbock quite often - a 10 hour drive so I'm fairly aware of the vast amounts of "untouched" land even in this State - the frozen tundra isn't even inhabitable in some areas - liberals would complain about clean air if we were for it -
Amazing the power the envirowhackos hold on the democrat party.
They'll probably roll Lugar.
If you see John Kerry walking down the street with Teresa Heinz, you see John Kerry and all his friends.
Last I heard the citizens of Alaska were in favor.Kerry can go screw himself sheeh what a loser.
LOL
That's Canuckspeak for Carabou.
On the occasions when I've flown across the country I amazed at how vast and empty it largely is. I recently spent 5 weeks in Texas, and even in the DFW metroplex, if you get off the main avenues in the suburbs there's still plenty of wide-open spaces.
Save ANWR! Rid it of the dangerous oil!
(it's for the children)
When the Alaskan pipeline was built, the caribou herd was at appx 3000. Nowadays its at 36,000.
That's a lotta dead caribou. Oh wait a minute...
Good one!
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