Pulling Out All The Stops To Let Our Senators Know Of Opposition To Climate Change Bill
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
2010 is an election year and U.S. Senator Harry Reid will be seeking re-election. This confluence of points is the reason why we need to spare no e-mail, fax or letter opportunity to share with our Senator the opposition we have to passage of any legislative proposal carrying a Climate Change Cap-and-Trade concept.
We are well aware that the Senate hasn’t finished drafting their proposal, but this should not and cannot be an excuse for a flat-out rejection. After they come up with the plan and work out the necessary details to get enough votes for consideration/passage – it will be too late. Now is the time to push for rejection of the legislative proposal and doing so through contacts which might not be paid attention to except by way of volume.
Having seen more than a fair share of the form-responses that come back, “thanking” me for my input and learning that my perspective “will be given full consideration” as the Senator prepares for the upcoming vote – I fully understand that the specifics of what is sent doesn’t count for as much as the “weight of the mailbag”. Judgments are made more often by how many people are involved in sending in their input than what the input seeks to persuade.
Reading the signals it is doubtful that Senator Reid hasn’t already decided to vote in support of whatever is developed in the Senate committees who will interact on the issue. The only thing we can do is generate enough of a pending backlash for him to consider the consequences.
There is background information provided in many places on why the whole idea of Cap-and-Trade is terrible. Here’s the discussion paper prepared by the American Farm Bureau Federation, describing the problems as it relates to the negative impacts for American agriculture.
There also needs to be some answers in response to whether the information pertaining to temperature levels have any validity, given the findings that Anthony Watts and his SufaceStations.org group have been finding.
We also think that the on-going information prepared by the Heritage Foundation provides outstanding background for principled exchange and discussion.
Along with using this background for contacts with Senator Reid and Senator Ensign, we also encourage you to pass along your opinions in the form of “letters to the editor” of your local newspapers, promoting more people to join you to put an end to this economy-killing idea.
2010 is an election year and U.S. Senator Harry Reid will be seeking re-election. This confluence of points is the reason why we need to spare no e-mail, fax or letter opportunity to share with our Senator the opposition we have to passage of any legislative proposal carrying a Climate Change Cap-and-Trade concept.
We are well aware that the Senate hasn’t finished drafting their proposal, but this should not and cannot be an excuse for a flat-out rejection. After they come up with the plan and work out the necessary details to get enough votes for consideration/passage – it will be too late. Now is the time to push for rejection of the legislative proposal and doing so through contacts which might not be paid attention to except by way of volume.
Having seen more than a fair share of the form-responses that come back, “thanking” me for my input and learning that my perspective “will be given full consideration” as the Senator prepares for the upcoming vote – I fully understand that the specifics of what is sent doesn’t count for as much as the “weight of the mailbag”. Judgments are made more often by how many people are involved in sending in their input than what the input seeks to persuade.
Reading the signals it is doubtful that Senator Reid hasn’t already decided to vote in support of whatever is developed in the Senate committees who will interact on the issue. The only thing we can do is generate enough of a pending backlash for him to consider the consequences.
There is background information provided in many places on why the whole idea of Cap-and-Trade is terrible. Here’s the discussion paper prepared by the American Farm Bureau Federation, describing the problems as it relates to the negative impacts for American agriculture.
There also needs to be some answers in response to whether the information pertaining to temperature levels have any validity, given the findings that Anthony Watts and his SufaceStations.org group have been finding.
We also think that the on-going information prepared by the Heritage Foundation provides outstanding background for principled exchange and discussion.
Along with using this background for contacts with Senator Reid and Senator Ensign, we also encourage you to pass along your opinions in the form of “letters to the editor” of your local newspapers, promoting more people to join you to put an end to this economy-killing idea.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 7/13/2009 8:52 AM 
Categories: Climate Change
Tags: Cap-and-Trade Global Warming Energy Climate Change
Categories: Climate Change
Tags: Cap-and-Trade Global Warming Energy Climate Change
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