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Posted on 05/16/2006 1:24:56 PM PDT by Gopher Broke
It's time for an accountability moment for Clay Shaw and Dave Reichert. They're a couple of Republican congressmen with absurdly bad environmental voting records and connections to big oil that would make Dick Cheney blush, and their Democratic opponents are closing in on them every day. If we give these pro-environment Democrats the immediate help they need, we can win two of the most environmentally critical elections in the country.
Support strong pro-environment Democratic candidates right now.
Clay Shaw (Florida) and Dave Reichert (Washington) are from opposite ends of the country. But, they're as close as they could be when it comes to cozying up to polluters and giant oil companies. In fact, they share identical 28% scores on the non-partisan League of Conservation Voters environmental scorecard. That means they vote against the environment 7 out of every 10 chances they get.
They've voted to open up the Arctic Refuge to drilling, gut funding of environmental protections for clean water and environmental conservation, and sell off our public lands to the big mining companies.
The contrast couldn't be more compelling. Their Democratic opponents are strong environmentalists. Ron Klein, running to unseat Clay Shaw, has been a leader in the Florida State Senate opposing the Bush administration's efforts to open up Florida's coastline to oil drilling. And Darcy Burner, opposing Dave Reichert in Washington, is running because she's fed up with the Bush Republicans paying only lip service to alternative energy and conservation while they give away billions of dollars in tax subsidies to giant oil companies that are already raking in record profits.
Here's how you can help. Make sure the voters in Florida and Washington state reject the 28% voting records of anti-environment Republicans by donating $28 each to the fast-moving campaigns of Ron Klein and Darcy Burner.
Support strong pro-environment Democratic candidates right now.
And, while you're at it, please consider sending another $28 to Francine Busby. She's a committed pro-environment Democrat running in a very tight race in California. Her opponent, Brian Bilbray - a former GOP congressman turned energy company lobbyist - is running on the dubious proposition that what Congress needs right now is more Republican advocates for Big Oil.
Francine Busby is running against Bilbray in the seat vacated by the GOP's Randy "Duke" Cunningham who has admitted to a long string of corrupt acts. Sending someone as clean and green as Francine Busby to replace Cunningham would truly be a breath of fresh air. The special election to fill this seat is only 3 weeks away, so please act today.
Support strong pro-environment Democratic candidates right now.
Every day I become more hopeful that, thanks to you, our hard-driving efforts to deliver unprecedented levels of grassroots support to key Democratic candidates can turn the tide in 2006.
I'm tired of being forced to spend so much of our time just trying to stop bad things from happening in Washington.
If we can take back Congress in November, we can stop anti-environment Republicans from threatening the Arctic Refuge, selling off our national forests, weakening environmental standards, and we can finally do right by our national security by putting America on a path to genuine energy independence.
You and I both know that the best way to protect our environment is to throw ourselves heart and soul into winning these elections.
Think we can't do it? Think again. I believe in this cause with all my heart and gut. I know it's not easy, but I remember when you couldn't even mention environmental issues without a snicker. But then in the 1970's people got tired of seeing the Cuyahoga River catch on fire from all the chemicals. So one day millions of Americans marched. Politicians had no choice but to take notice. Twelve Congressmen were dubbed the Dirty Dozen, and soon after seven were kicked out of office. The floodgates were opened. We got the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Safe Drinking Water Act. We created the EPA. The quality of life improved because concerned citizens made their issues matter in elections.
We need to do this all over again.
If possible, I urge you to send $28 to each of the three pro-environment candidates we're focusing on this week. If you can't afford that, I urge you to pick one or two candidates to support. But, whatever you do, don't let pass this opportunity to build strong momentum in must-win races across the nation that will determine who controls Congress for the next two years.
Thanks so much for all of the hard work you're putting into this campaign.
Sincerely,
John Kerry
P.S. In addition to providing direct candidate assistance, I hope you'll add a special donation to Keeping America's Promise in support of our broader efforts to help shape the outcome of this November's elections.
The Stay At Homers will be receiving emails that end like this come November. :)
John Kerry - A senator from a commonwealth of the union that has the distinction as the only place in America that has lost population for 2 years in a row...
wasn't he in the Army or something? (hehehe)
The hysterics on FR will help John Kerry achieve his goals. Aren't they special.
What's with the psuedo intellectual types like Kerry always using the word "absurd"?!!! Always reminds me of Charles Winchester the 3rd from MASH. Remember how he used to say "Abzurd"! Ha!
The League of Conservation Voters is nonpartisan?
Oh yeah, John, they're nonpartisan allright. They're about as rabidly leftist and anti-Republican as you can get. From their standpoint any person and especially any oil or gas company that makes money in America is EVIL, FILTHY EVIL.
He doesn't just kiss the Greens butts, he's lime-colored down to the shoulders.
Maybe one of those old "fragging" injuries has clouded his memory on that.........
;)
:-)
skerry is skerry but the enviroment will be an issue in florida, one way or the other
I'm surprised that jfk didn't accuse the GOP congressmen of eating small children and running over the elderly..it must have been a slow day for him in the swiss alps..
...which is why no one cares what he or his partner in crime (Kennedy) say.
Does this mean that Kerry,who made his money the old fashioned way...he married it,has changed his mind on the wind farm in Nantucket Sound?
Could never happen; that would make way too much sense. Babies are tender and old people are in the way, so it's theoretically possible that someone might be in favor of those proposals.
But hey, we're talking moonbats here. If you want them to part with their parents' hard-earned money you've got to give them a story they'll BELIEVE -- like telling them that Republicans are in favor of pollution.
Well it was an email for the DUmmys. They'd believe anything Kerry pulls out of his ass
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