DU, join Robert F. Kennedy's NRDC to fight coming environmental assault!

[flpoljunkie]

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-invest8nov08,0,5478723.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Business Groups Invested in Races, Now Wait for Returns

After a hefty push for Republican candidates, industry organizations form their wish lists.

By Tom Hamburger
Times Staff Writer

November 8, 2004

WASHINGTON — Lobbyists for the nation's leading business groups have been toasting the success of what they describe as an unprecedented effort this year to help elect President Bush and Republican congressional candidates. Now they plan to collect on that investment.

"With his victory and better numbers in the Senate and the House, we hope we would get to some things we believe are long overdue," said Dirk Van Dongen, president of the National Assn. of Wholesaler-Distributors and a leader of this year's effort to mobilize the business community behind the Bush candidacy.

Business was generally pleased with the first four years under Bush, but Tuesday's victory now brings within grasp some of the things it was unable to secure in his first term.

The list, according to interviews with lobbyists and trade associations,includes making tax cuts for capital gains and dividends permanent, limiting liability lawsuits, changing bankruptcy laws and opening previously restricted land in Alaska and elsewhere for energy exploration.

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Here is the link to the Natural Resources Defense Council where Robert F. Kennedy is a senior staff attorney and a wonderful advocate for the environment. They do great work. Am a long time member of NRDC. They have their work cut out for them as Bush/Cheney plan to continue their assault on the environment to collect their "political capital" they feel they won.

http://www.nrdc.org/

[Hell Hath No Fury]

1. More NRDC info...

The National Resources Defense Council is the nation's most effective environmental action organization. We use law, science and the support of more than 1 million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things.

Natural Resources Defense Council
40 West 20th Street
New York, NY 10011

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Belonging to this group is a MUST for everyone!

[flpoljunkie]

2. Thanks. Here is link to their post-election message.

http://www.nrdc.org/about/03novja.asp

Part of the letter:

We're stunned not so much by the outcome itself. After all, President Bush was a slight favorite to win this election. No, the look of distress on faces all around NRDC's offices today is true alarm at what lies ahead. As sweeping as this administration's attack on the environment has been, things are about to get worse. Perhaps much worse.

It was only the threat of the ballot box -- of answering to the American people -- that caused the Bush administration to backburner many of its most destructive plans. The White House has already signaled that the attacks of the past four years are but the leading edge of a much broader assault that will come in a second term.

Look for it to begin over the next few months with rulemakings that would set off an invasion of chainsaws and drilling rigs into our last wild national forests... give polluters the right to keep spewing illegal tons of toxic mercury into our air until at least 2025... and allow water treatment plants to dump virtually untreated sewage into our waterways.

So, yes, take one full day for feeling shell-shocked.

But prepare yourself. Tomorrow the battle will be joined. And we must be ready.

You can take heart in this: thanks to the support of our members and online activists, NRDC has succeeded in stalling, blocking or sinking the worst of President Bush's attempts so far to dismantle our environmental laws.

And let me tell you, the second Bush administration will have to contend with an NRDC that now wields the most potent combination of grassroots activism, courtroom power and media outreach ever assembled by one public interest organization.

That impressive operation -- one million members and online activists, scores of attorneys, the best rapid response operation in the business -- will be focused like a laser on stopping the onslaught to come.

Failure is not an option. Everything we have fought for and achieved over the past 35 years is at stake. In the weeks ahead, we will report in more detail on NRDC's action plan for defending our environment during President Bush's second term.

But I can share one key element of that plan right now.We are counting on our supporters to stay the course with NRDC. We need your outrage. We need your activism. We need your commitment. If we have all of those, we are going to prevail.

Sincerely,

John H. Adams
President 

[idiosyncratic]

3. I live on a fixed income . . . and I just donated.

After the "election" of * , it is even more important for environmental groups to have whatever clout they can muster.

<Getting up to soak some beans for dinner.>

[H2O Man]

4. Good idea.

I hope people join.

[idiosyncratic]

5. Kick . . . This is important

:kick:

[Baja Margie]

6. Excellent group

They moved mountains down here to halt the salt factory in San Quintin. Maybe, maybe, they would go in on the sit-in deal? Will e-mail them.

[Baja Margie]

7. Kick

[flpoljunkie]

8. Kick!

http://www.nrdc.org