Countering Democrats who support Keystone
The Senate voted in support of the Keystone pipeline. All Republicans and 17 Democrats voted yes. Eight of the 17 Democrats are up for re-election in 2014. Here is the response from 350.org:
Friends,
After a very chaotic week on Capitol Hill, I wanted to write you with an update on what just happened in the Senate today.
First and foremost: the oil industry's Senators did not manage to pass legislation that would force President Obama to build Keystone XL.
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Now, this amounts to symbolic chest thumping by the oil industry: showing just how many Senators they can get to jump when told to. It's not the worst thing that could have happened, but it reminds everyone why, in one recent poll, congress had approval ratings lower than head lice and colonoscopies -- even on the symbolic stuff, they can't get it together to stand up to the oil industry guys cutting them checks.
In a certain way though, this vote couldn't come at a better time. Congress is going on break, and for the next two weeks, these 62 Senators will be back in their home states, doing things like meeting with constituents -- people like you.
Home states are where some of the most heroic work took place the last week -- in Minneapolis, say, where 150 350MN.org activists showed up on very short notice at Sen. Klobuchar's office in a snowstorm to tell her to vote no on Keystone (and she did, it should be added).
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http://350.org/en/about/blogs/bills-response-senate-vote-today
Lead an action at your Senator's office
http://act.350.org/survey/kxl-senate-accountability-2013/
The 62 Yeas included the following Democrats (Senators up for re-election in 2014 are highlighted - http://www.dscc.org/races) :
Baucus (D-MT)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Coons (D-DE)
Donnelly (D-IN)
Hagan (D-NC)
Heitkamp (D-ND)
Johnson (D-SD)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Manchin (D-WV)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Nelson (D-FL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Tester (D-MT)
Warner (D-VA)
Roll call: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=1&vote=00061
Is your Senator on the list?
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The Senator at the top of that list happens to be the senior Senator from the state I live in... I make no claim to being represented by him. I have approached him on several issues, including toning down his BS rhetoric on wildlife issues (wolves in particular... he likes to have the taxpayers foot the bill for the USDA wildlife disservices' hit squad kill wolves on his ranch instead of taking anti predator protective measures with his livestock) and complained about threats to my safety by the wolf-hating wingers... he sent me a smarmy letter asking for my vote even though he doesn't give a shit if I am personally harmed by the wingers. I am on now on his "ignore list" of alleged constituents.
He is a corporate shill of the first order and has no conscience what-so-ever... he tried to get his mistress a fat, cushy job in the DOJ a couple years ago, guess who's footing the bill for his re-election... yeah, he needs to be primaried real bad.
We're back to no representation days, folks, regardless of how much we are taxed. It seems that those who don't ay taxes but should are the only ones who feel the love with regard to representation.
