100,000 CALLS TO NANCY PELOSI!
Something the “green” blogosphere has been somewhat quiet about, so far, is the elevation of Democrat Nancy Pelosi to House Leader. Lost among the joyous cries of “WE WON!” is the vital question of “What next?”
I urge you to immediately contact Pelosi at her D.C. office and relay your concerns that among her post-victory speeches, outlines and promises, environmental issues have barely registered. In her “Six for ‘06″ platform, the only mention of the environment comes with a vague promise to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign oil. A quick perusal of Pelosi’s HouseDemocrats.gov website shows only a very topical treatment of environmental issues - this should be startling to those of you who expect the Democrats to push for significantly more action on climate change. Remember, Clinton/Gore kept the U.S. out of the Kyoto Treaty - their constituency never pushed them hard enough to do anything else. That was then, this is now. Let us do better this time!
To her credit, Pelosi does seem to be educated and aware of the need for the rapid enactment of legislation that will bolster pro-environment and climate change progress. However, her recently polled constituency does not rate either of these items among their top ten pressing issues. We can change this by being very vocal, by making sure everyone we know contacts Pelosi in short order. If we can drive WorldChanging’s book to the top slot at Amazon, can we not deliver a strong message to Nancy Pelosi? I understand the need to better educate the choir, but should we not be pushing as well on our legislative agenda? We can start with tax shifting as outlined by Lester Brown and Geoffrey Sachs (click me), perhaps the most important and fundamental step. From there, the rest will be rather apparent.
Let’s get 100,000 ‘contacts’ to Nancy Pelosi’s office by the end of December.
It’s even easier than shopping at Whole Foods - just call the number below or copy and paste the email address. Thirty seconds of your time, at most. And DO NOT FORGET TO PASS IT ON! If you have connections to a wide mailing list/popular website and can turn this thing into a grassroots wildfire, please do!
Nancy Pelosi can be reached at (202) 225-4965. Email = americanvoices@mail.house.gov
Tod you are NOT SO BRILLIANT as your ‘about me’ page proves. You suffer from diarrhea of the mouth caused by headupyourassitis which was probably brought on by immersing yourself in the totally left wing looney socialist/communist mantra which you practice. Get a real job!
Suzy -
Many bloggers would delete your childish rant. Yet, I believe in freedom of speech, don’t you know! Your comments seem to indicate that even a hint of criticism of the Democrats’ refusal to move the environment toward the top of the party’s priority list evinces an obvious and sure response from the the knee jerks–suggesting once again that there is little difference between Democrat and Republican stalwarts. That is, there is ZERO TOLERANCE for criticism of the party platform/agenda. Meaning, of course, that there is little chance for change until these (you) dinosaurs die off. I’m quite hopeful that within both parties there is a new breed, one that recognizes that the environment is the first truly non-partisan issue. If recognized and empowered, it will be these voters, activists and elected officials who will be the heroes of our age.