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PA VOTER NOTICE #1
For PA folks, vote today! As noted earlier, the judgeships are especially important -- I believe it is Jack Panella who is the one we need to get in to swing the balance to the Dems for redistricting purposes next year.
PA VOTER NOTICE #2 [courtesy of Connie Phillips of Aspinwall]
Something very important is going on right now:
Senator Specter is important right now because he is a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee which is the first ranking committee to review and potentially make changes (good or bad) to the Senate climate bill introduced by Senator Kerry and Senator
Boxer. It is called the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act of 2009 (CEJAP). SENATOR SPECTER PLACES HIGH VALUE ON
HANDWRITTEN NOTES AND THAT'S WHERE WE CAN HELP. He needs to hear from his constituents that they support a STRONG climate bill. If any of you could take a few minutes over a cup of coffee and write him a note, we can help America be a leader at the Copenhagen climate talks in December, create secure energy sources here at home, and create new green jobs right here in Pennsylvania. Currently there are only 8,000 some coal jobs and those are decreasing due to increased mechanization.
You can write to Senator Specter at:
Regional Enterprise Tower
425 Sixth Avenue, Suite 1450
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Writing to him in Washington D.C. takes two to four weeks because all the mail has to be screened.
Some additional points:
1. Be sure to include your name and address.
2. It helps to include why it's important to you that the United States acts now to fight global warming and invest in clean energy.
3. This bill puts America back in control and makes it more energy independent.
More technical points:
1. The EPA must retain authority to enforce the Clean Air Act rules that would regulate global warming pollution from existing coal plants. This is important because, if I remember right, the bill that passed the House (the American Clean Energy and Security Act or ACES) GUTS the power of the EPA to enforce the Clean Air Act.
2. There should be no giveaways to coal companies to build new coal fired power plants.
3. The global warming emissions reductions should remain at the science-based targets of 20% by 2020 and 83% by 2050.
4. A renewable electricity standard of 20% by 2020 should be included in the final bill.
The GOP Stalinists Invade Upstate New York (Frank Rich) from the New York Times
"BARACK OBAMA’S most devilish political move since the 2008 campaign was to appoint a Republican congressman from upstate New York as secretary of the Army. This week’s election to fill that vacant seat has set off nothing less than a riotous and bloody national G.O.P. civil war."
Teach Your Teachers Well (Editorial) from the New York Times
"If we really want good schools, we need to create a critical mass of great teachers. And if we want smart, passionate people to become these great educators, we have to attract them with excellent programs and train them properly in the substance and practice of teaching."
McCain Advisor Faces Personal Health Insurance Woes from the Washington Post
Sad, ironic -- and, boy, could I name some other Republicans who deserve it more!
"If history had taken a different course, Doug Holtz-Eakin would be inside the McCain White House driving the Republican president's domestic agenda, including health-care reform. But now, one year after Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) lost the presidential election, the man who was by McCain's side as the campaign's top health-care guru remains unemployed -- and his COBRA health coverage is running out."
The Things People Say: Rumors in the Age of Unreason from the New Yorker
"That such a wacky idea should be so persistent is, to put it mildly, disquieting. Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never mattered less."
Conservatives Take Aim at Leaders, Christ, Other Races from Politico
"The conservative coup in upstate New York did much more than lay bare the power of conservative activists: It exposed how little control GOP officials hold over this surging and formidable political movement. "
Fiasco: NY Republicans Deliver Again from Politico
"over the past decade or so, the New York Republican Party has emerged as the political gang that couldn’t shoot straight, an operation so inept that it’s sometimes hard to believe it exists in the nation’s third most populous state. "
HBO NUGGET!!
This is on TONIGHT!
An add for the HBO documentary By the People: The Election of Barack Obama from the Daily Beast
"Nearly a year before Barack Obama announced his candidacy for the presidency on February 10, 2007, filmmakers Amy Rice and Alicia Sams began to roll cameras on the young senator. Over the next 19 months, they found themselves travelling all across the country, chronicling the daily ups and downs of the campaign trail as experienced by Obama, his family, his staff and volunteers."
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