Kerry's Latest Email to Supporters: "Save" the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

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[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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[Polyxene]

I heard on the radio this morning that in 1980, DemocRAT Peanutman CARTER set aside ANWR as a possible oil drilling site. Has anyone else heard this?

[governsleastgovernsbest]

What is it these guys always say about abortion and other issues? "If you don't want to 'DO IT' (insert issue), then don't do it."

Reminds me of a good pro-life argument I once read: those "Against Abortion? Don't Have One" bumper stickers make as much sense as ones reading "Against Slavery? Don't Own One."

[Txsleuth]

ROFLMAO!!!!

[QQQQQ]

"http://contribute.johnkerry.com/ "

It's a good excuse to ask for money.

[eccentric]

You mean like windmills?

Which you can't put in the tall grass preserve in Kansas...How tall does the grass grow?!?!

[rhombus]

I was referring to the proposal to put windmills in Cape Cod. I believe Kerry and Kennedy have opposed it in a classic "not in my backyard".

[tang-soo]

It's interesting. www.anwr.org is full of pro-development and pro adminstration links and articles. Yet, on the right hand side is a column of google ads that point to article by Babs Boxer and this vile link to anti W stuff - http://dontblamemeivoted4kerry.com/ .

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Well this Texas girl got out of PA last summer - and I can tell you honestly, the TexMex food is just as incredible as I remembered it all that time in PA.........(but the pizza sucks here..........;^)

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Well, our good friend, TexasCowboy, is a consultant over drilling rigs (did I explain that correctly Cowboy?) and he never seems to be out of work in Texas...........

[governsleastgovernsbest]

I've got an ex-parrot. A parrot that's ceased to be.

Which makes the NY Times - an ex-paper, a paper that's ceased to be - the perfect cage liner.

[Arrowhead1952]

I'm waiting for the oil industry to drill on our farm near Giddings. Back in the 60s & 70s, there were many exploratory holes drilled and seismic crews crossing our place.

There is one circle about 800 - 950 feet that had no less than seven crews cross in one year. It just seems like they knew there was oil or gas under the ground there. There is a gas well less than 1/2 mile from our property line and an oil well 3/4 mile away.

[eccentric]

The wackos are fighting windmills in Kansas, too.

[rhombus]

The wackos are fighting windmills in Kansas, too.

I believe they had a problem with them in Europe because too many birds were dying...paging PETA, paging PETA! Hahaha, can we drill oil now? How about nuclear?

[Edgerunner]

Yeah, he makes a laughing stock out of the once great state of Massachusetts. I laugh at people of that former great state who believe that Kennedy and Kerry have any influence in the senate anymore

[steve-b]

I'd be willing to see the Pubbies come up with a compromise proposal, in which ANWR drilling is replaced by the construction of sufficient wind farms off Martha's Vineyard to provide the same amount of energy.

[redhead]

What the heck are musk oxen doing in ANWR? I thought they were native to Nunivak Island.

[cogitator]

bump for later

[Christian4Bush]

Democrats put ice over people.

...and people on ice...

As to your tagline, I respectfully disagree...as long as he is alive, in any office, and with access to a mic, he is a danger to national security. As for his email, my answer is in my tagline...courtesy of Jo Dee Messina.

[Txsleuth]

C-span 2---right know the Senate is debating ANWR for about another hour or so

[lutz]

Well, no way to see the list (that I can find). I did put in my own addition to his roll call though:

first name: Karl
last name: Rove
email: KRove@RovianStorm.com
zip code: 01030
comments: (optional)Drill ANWR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!