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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[Reactionary]

I appreciate the irony of Leftists invoking the "sacred," don't you?

[goldstategop]

Is the same French Boy who wants us out of the Middle East? Finally, he has a plan - let's buy more oil from the Saudis! (laughing)

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[acapesket]

This has never been a great State.. since the Revolution!
After 1812 we have had more a**holes per square mile than any other state in the Union!
Hello Gay State!! HELLOO>>> echoes of Ted's pickled brain summoning the Unions and Elitists to attack Lawrence Summers!!
HIS CRIME?? He spoke the TRUTH!!

[enviros_kill]

Yes let's replace the unsightly oil derricks on the frozen tundra with unsightly windmills (aka 'eagle killers') all over the lower 48 instead.

Windmills taking toll on birds of prey
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-01-04-windmills-usat_x.htm

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Hanoi Kerry attacks President Bush AGAIN!

When are the "Move On" FReepers going to learn?

Expect more attacks while they and the GOP controlled
US Senate "Move On"!

[infidel29]

"Save" ANWR? John, Jimmuh already saved it...He saved it so we can drill it!! HAHAHAHHH!! That was a good one... Do these Demoncraps have any shame? Every time they put out a "call for action" it's accompanied by "send us your money".

Do their DUmb supporters actually fall for this en masse? I know some fall for it, but can so many really be so stupid? Nevermind.

[luvie]

Tonk--you just keep pushing! We'll get him one of these days, but not if we just give up! I'm with ya!

[Jorge]

kerry promised in one of his campaign stops to drill in anwar to union workers even though a few appearances before he was against it when he spoke at an enviromental group he changes to appease the group he is in front of, he is attempting to shore up his base for 2008 he did the same in regard to coal mining he really is SICK!!!!!!!!!!!

Incredible.

I bet this man will NEVER go anywhere in politics again.

Let this vote be the latest defeat for this flip-flopping phoney.

[CarryaBigStick]

Any estimates as to how much recoverable oil is in the Alaskan National Petroleum Reserve? Thats a huge area. The BLM awarded new leases on the reserve to several companies last September.

[mafree]

DRILL ANWR NOW!!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[Condor51]

ANWR - In SPRING!

[television is just wrong]

We need to drill in the artic. If we do not, Mr. Kerry will have no gas for his SUV's, his motorcycles, his offroad vehicles, and all thoser other sporty vehicles he rode out during the electio he failed to win.

[cogitator]

It took me awhile to find this; it has some information relevant to the ANWR issue and effects on caribou.

Caribou Study Charges Energy Debate

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Thanks for the info.

I figure the libs in Congress know this, but that doesn't stop them from pandering to their enviro-whacko supporters.

[razoroccam]

Thanks.
My information came from the Economist. They also point out that with modern technology, the platform can be much smaller and with a single platform, they can drill in multiple directions leading to as much as 25 wells per platform (in contrast to the 1:1 ratio of bygone era).

[MeekOneGOP]

bump!

[daybreakcoming]

I have a visual of kerry snowboarding in your picture.....

[traviskicks]

Casting a Cold Eye on Arctic Oil
9/10/03 New York Times - Nicolas Kristof goes to Alaska to investigate ANWAR (Alaska National Wildlife Refuge) and offer his opinion on the Bush administration's proposal to open it to energy exploration (aka - oil drilling). A vast majority of Alaskans, both Democrats and Republicans, support the plan. Of course, Kristof opposes the drilling, but what is most interesting, besides the fact that only 7% of ANWAR would be open to drilling (and perhaps only a small percentage of this 'spoiled' by the drilling), is this statement in his story: It's also only fair to give special weight to the views of the only people who live in the coastal plain: the Inupiat Eskimos, who overwhelmingly favor drilling (they are poor now, and oil could make them millionaires). One of the Eskimos, Bert Akootchook, angrily told me that if environmentalists were so anxious about the Arctic, they should come here and clean up the petroleum that naturally seeps to the surface of the tundra. (all emphasis mine!)