Re: Our Pick for President
2008-06-23 by Charlie Thomson
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From: Carl Pope, Sierra Club
To: k4clt@...
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 11:09 AM
Subject: Our Pick for President
Dear Charlie and Ann,
I'm proud to say that last Friday morning in Cleveland the Sierra Club and our friends at the United Steelworkers (USW) jointly endorsed Barack Obama for President.
The Sierra Club and Steelworkers jointly endorsed Barack Obama as the change our country (and planet) needs.
Will you volunteer to help elect Barack Obama to the White House this year?
Click here to sign up!
I believe Senator Obama is the change our nation needs, and the volunteer members of the Political Committee and the Board of Directors of the Club agreed when they voted to endorse him. Barack Obama is the leader who will put America on the path to a clean energy economy that creates and keeps millions of jobs, spurs innovation and opportunity, and makes us a more secure nation.
I'm asking you join me in standing behind Barack Obama this year. Will you pledge to volunteer time between now and November 4th to help elect Barack Obama President of the United States?
Click here to pledge:
http://action.sierraclub.org/obama2008
I know many of you are already engaged in the election, and we'd love to hear about why you're working for change. Just click the link above and let us know what you're doing.
This year, the Sierra Club will work hard to elect Barack Obama. But come next year, we'll work just as hard to make sure Obama's administration delivers on the bold, serious, and urgent action on climate change we need now to leave our children a safer planet. It's going to take all of us.
As USW President Leo Gerard said, the Sierra Club and his union "are standing together in support of Barack Obama because we all share the common goal of putting America back to work by building a clean energy economy." Gerard said he believes Obama is committed to "breaking the chokehold Big Oil and the other polluting energy industries have on our economy and future."
Senator Obama's green jobs/climate change platform is impressive:
a.. Senator Obama has presented a bold and comprehensive plan for addressing climate change that relies on what the world's scientists have told us needs to be done. His plan includes a "cap and auction" system that would cut our carbon dioxide emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.
b.. His plan requires that polluters pay for the global warming pollution they emit and would invest the money generated from those credits into clean energy, green jobs, and aid for the lowest-income Americans affected by higher energy costs.
c.. His plan calls for 25 percent of U.S. electricity to come from renewable sources by 2025, and for improving energy efficiency in the U.S. 50 percent by 2030, and would create tens of thousands of jobs in growing industries while at the same time reducing the amount Americans spend on energy bills.
It's going to take all of us to elect Barack Obama the next President of the United States, and it's going to take everyone concerned about global warming and the future of this planet to engage in both the election and our work to curb climate change. Click here to pledge volunteer hours and tell us why you're working for change.
Thanks for everything you do to protect the planet,
Carl Pope
Executive Director
P.S. Here are some high points of Senator Obama's environmental platform. To get more information, visit http://www.barackobama.com/issues/energy/
"Change is an energy policy that puts a price on pollution and makes the oil companies invest their record profits in clean, renewable sources of energy that will create millions of new jobs and leave our children a safer planet." -- Senator Obama, May 20, 2008
The Obama Environmental Record
a.. Opposes oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
b.. Opposes the storage of nuclear waste at the Yucca Mountain repository being built in southern Nevada.
c.. Promises to restore environmental protections that the Bush administration rolled back by executive order.
d.. Calls for tougher pollution regulations on factory farms or concentrated animal-feeding operations (CAFOs).
e.. Primary cosponsor of the Lead Poisoning Reduction Act, which aims to protect children from toxic lead poisoning.
The Sierra Club was an early backer of State Senator Barack Obama in the Democratic Primary for his run to the U.S. Senate, basing our endorsement on "his strong record of support for clean air, wetlands protection, and clean energy."
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