LCV VICTORY FUND: Woah - crazy polls in CO, MN, and NV - we could WIN these 22OKT16

THE LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS has been working educate the electorate in swing states and in all states across the country on the importance of electing a president as well as senators and representatives who will lead the country in dealing with climate change and protecting the agencies and regulations that protect our environment and so protect us. Please consider making a donation to the slate of candidates supported by the +League of Conservation Voters , I have a few times. It isn't how much you donate,  but that you do, because the 2016 elections are so critical for the future of our nation. There is an update on the LCV Dirty Dozen list following the e mail.....

	Are you registered to vote? Yes / No / Don’t Know BREAKING: New polls show the Trump-effect seriously swinging down-ticket races. We have to jump on this — contributions are being triple matched right now — can you help us expand to win even more races?  As Trump’s rift with Republican leaders grows, new races are suddenly in play. Must-Win House Races: Colorado 6th: too close to call Minnesota 2nd: too close to call Nevada 4th: too close to call Donate today and your contribution will be tripled » TRIPLE MATCH » This is huge — in the final weeks of the election, Trump’s rift with Republican leaders is changing down ticket races in ways that no oneexpected. Races where environmental candidates had been trailing climate change deniers for months are suddenly in play. Some sources are saying that control of the House could flip to a pro-environment majority. Our campaign director just laid out a “go big” strategy to expand into must-win congressional races like those in Colorado, Minnesota, and Nevada, but here’s the thing: Tomorrow morning, our campaigns team is meeting to assess projected revenue, and right now we are $30,000 short of this week’s budget goals. If everyone pitched in we’d hit that goal immediately. A group of donors will triple every contribution. Can you let us know if you’re on board before tomorrow?  As donors with ties to big polluters turn away from the presidential race, serious resources are pouring into close Senate and House races for the final weeks of the election. The only way we can fully ramp up in must-win House races like in Colorado, Nevada, and Minnesota — the only way we can go big — is if we hit our $30,000 goal by tomorrow. This is a critical moment, we’ve got to act now to expand the map — we can’t afford to just play it safe. Are you with us? If your answer is “yes” — then we really need your help. A group of donors is tripling every contribution right now — can you let us know if you’re on board before tomorrow? You’re awesome and I want you to know we really couldn’t pull any of this off without folks like you. Sincerely, Kristin Brown Director of Digital Strategy P.S. By the way, the candidates we’re targeting in these must-win House races in CO, MN, and NV have such bad environmental records that we’ve named them to our Dirty Dozen list. So when we say must-win, we really mean it! Please, chip in today.  Paid for by the LCV Victory Fund, www.lcvvictoryfund.org, and not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. For 20 years, the Dirty Dozen has targeted candidates— regardless of party affiliation — who consistently side against the environment and are running in races in which LCV has a serious chance to affect the outcome. Last cycle, LCV defeated seven of the 12 Dirty Dozen candidates. In the last presidential year of 2012, LCV defeated 11 of 12. LCV Names Donald Trump to Signature Dirty Dozen List LCV Names Ron Johnson as Debut Member of 2016 Dirty Dozen LCV Names Joe Heck as Debut Member of 2016 Dirty Dozen LCV Names Pat Toomey as Debut Member of 2016 Dirty Dozen LCV Names Rob Portman to Dirty Dozen List and Launches Field Effort in Ohio Senate Race Additional members of the 2016 Dirty Dozen coming soon. Paid for by the League of Conservation Voters, www.lcv.org, and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

Climate Champion or Pipeline President? Share your Climate State of the Union 28JAN14

SEND your climate State of the Union message to Pres Obama and the nation by clicking the link below. 350.org will stream messages across their website while the president speaks and post some on their facebook page and tweet others.....

Friends,
If you were taking the podium tonight for the State of the Union instead of President Obama, what would you say about the state of our climate?
I’m collecting 'climate State of the Union' messages to share with the world during the President’s speech tonight, and I'm hoping you can contribute yours. They’ll be streaming across the front of the 350.org website -- and we'll be posting some of the best on 350.org's Twitter and Facebook feeds later today.
Click here to share your climate State of the Union message: act.350.org/letter/sotu2014/
President Obama hasn't been the climate leader we need. Sometimes he gets it, making big promises and taking some steps to move us forward. But other times he goes out of his way to cheerlead fracking, and the Southern leg of Keystone XL.
With so much on the line, we need a climate champion, not a pipeline president. President Obama needs to get right to work moving our economy towards 100% renewable energy, starting with rejecting Keystone XL.
To show the kind of leadership we need, I want to collect climate State of the Union messages that set an example for how to speak truth and call for ambitious action.
Here’s what I decided I would say if I were addressing the nation tonight:

"The state of our climate is dire. We need drastic steps forward -- starting with rejecting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and committing to a goal of 100% renewable energy as soon as possible.”

What would you say if you were in President Obama’s shoes? Click here to share it with the world. 
If you’re on Twitter, you can join in the conversation tonight with the hashtag #ClimateSOTU, and we’ll also have a feed of live commentary on the front page of the (brand new!) 350.org site.
Let’s show what leadership looks like,
Duncan

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Mission: Destroy Democracy - SumOfUs.org responds 22SEP13

I like SumOfUS.org , they are a small, bold progressive group that uses social media to challenge the greed of corporate America and promote social justice issues. They choose their campaigns wisely and provide the information and tools necessary for the progressive community to participate. Click the link above to go to their website and if you can make a donation, I did. Here is a bit about them....

Welcome to SumOfUs

SumOfUs.org is a new world-wide movement for a better global economy.

Here’s what we stand for:

• Governments that answer to citizens – not corporations
• Fair treatment of workers and the right of every human being to make a living, safely and ethically, for themselves and their family;

The right of ordinary consumers to products that are produced and marketed ethically, sustainably and transparently;

• The right of communities to manage and protect their own environment and natural resources;
• Business models that put people and the planet first instead of being driven by shortsighted greed.

Yeah, take that deep breath, close your eyes and imagine what kind of a world that could be – and then crash back to this one.

We’ve witnessed again and again what happens when powerful corporations get their way:

• Environmental and health catastrophes like Fukushima and the BP oil disaster;
• A global financial crisis that destroys entire economies;
• Rising food prices and starving children;
• Families from Kalamazoo to Timbuktu losing their houses and land;
• Poisons pouring into our air and water.

You name it, corporations are behind it. But rather than being held accountable – their CEOs are often walking away with bonuses. And these injustices are largely left to continue unabated.

But the world doesn’t have to be this way. And here’s the secret: We own the corporations that are causing all these problems. They rely on us to buy their products. They count on us to buy their stock. They need us to work for them. They need us to continue to elect governments that let them get away with murder.

We are SumOfUs.org, and we’re not going to take it anymore.

LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS 2012 SCORECARD 20FEB13

THE LCV has released it's Environmental Scorecard on the 112th Congress, and I have to agree with their comment, at least it is over. Click on the interactive map and links to see how your congressional delegation rates.....

JUST UNVEILED: Be the first to find out how your members of Congress measured up in LCV's 2012 National Environmental Scorecard and use our new, interactive website! Take a look at our new online National Environmental Scorecard here >> Today is a big day for us. Not only are we releasing the 2012 National Environmental Scorecard, but we're also unveiling a completely new, interactive Scorecard website, where you can see all the votes we've scored going back more than 40 years. Right now, I'm about to jump on a call to share this news with the national press, but I wanted to make sure that LCV members like you got an exclusive look at our new site before anyone else lays eyes on it. Find out where your members of Congress stood on the most important environmental votes of the year. Explore LCV's 2012 National Environmental Scorecard on our new website here >> Unfortunately the best thing that can be said about this session of the 112th Congress is that it's over. This was hands down, the most anti-environmental House of Representatives ever. Continuing their bad record from 2011, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) forced through radical bills attacking cornerstone environmental laws such as the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act. They pushed to drill off our shores and in the Arctic Refuge, tried to approve the harmful Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, and attacked protections for our national parks, forests, and wildlife. If it wasn't for our champions in the U.S. Senate and the Obama Administration, many of the environmental and public health safeguards we rely on would have been lost. Want to know if your members of Congress stood with people or polluters last year? Take a look at the 2012 National Environmental Scorecard here. The good news is: if we can educate the public about anti-environmental legislators' records, we can build the public pressure to hold them accountable and improve our environmental policies in the years to come. So that's why we've completely overhauled our Scorecard website to make it easier for you to access and share the information not just from this year, but every year since the National Environmental Scorecard was first released in 1971. On our new website you can not only read about the votes and check out the scores for your members of Congress, but you can also see how your state's congressional delegation has voted compared to the rest of the country using interactive charts and maps. You can look at votes taken over the years on just one issue like clean energy or climate change. And we've built in share features that make it easy to spread the word on social media or send a message to your members of Congress to thank or reprimand them depending on their vote history. I hope you'll take a moment to explore and share our new National Environmental Scorecard website today at: scorecard.lcv.org Thanks for helping us make a major splash with this release by getting the word out today. Best, Gene Karpinski President League of Conservation Voters

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Throw Big Oil off the fiscal cliff 5DEZ12

BIG oil did their best to buy this election, they threw away millions of dollars trying to buy a government that would protect their corporate welfare. They lost. NOW is the time, with the fiscal cliff looming, to demand our government eliminate the federal tax subsidies exxon, chevron, mobil, conoco, texaco and all the other dirty energy companies. They do not deserve the federal tax subsidies and tax breaks, and we can not afford to continue them. NOW is the time to end corporate welfare for the big oil companies. Click the link to send this message to your members of Congress.

Tell your members of Congress to throw Big Oil off the fiscal cliff and protect investments in conservation, clean energy, and public health! Tell your members of Congress to end Big Oil handouts, not environmental protections! We've got an idea for Congress: How about instead of cutting investments that support our families, protect our health, and preserve our environment, we finally get rid of those handouts that give oil companies billions of our taxpayer dollars every year to keep polluting our air and waterways? It seems like the most obvious plan, but right now Big Oil's congressional allies are pushing hard to do just the opposite as Congress looks for a way to deal with the so-called "fiscal cliff." Big Oil's allies in Congress want to protect special tax breaks for dirty energy companies while cutting investments in conservation, clean energy, and public health.  That makes no sense. But unless Congress hears from us now, they might just have their way. Email your members of Congress today: Tell them to throw Big Oil off the fiscal cliff, not the environmental programs that we all depend on! Big Oil has already recorded over $90 billion in profits so far in 2012. Yet the oil industry continues to receive $4 billion in taxpayer subsidies every year.  It is unacceptable that Big Oil's congressional cronies would have us fork over our tax dollars to these corporate polluters, while being forced to cut programs that protect our health and our environment. But even though environmental programs only make up 1.25% of the national budget, some members of Congress think we can somehow balance the budget by further decimating these critical programs. They would:     – Eliminate tax credits that have helped the wind industry grow,     – Starve our National Parks of funding,     – Cut programs for clean energy research and innovation,     – Undermine efforts to clean up contaminated waterways, and     – End programs that support more than 130 National Wildlife Refuges. We can't afford to lose these programs that keep our water clean, protect the places and wildlife we love, and build the infrastructure we need to curb global warming. So we need to make sure that Congress hears loud and clear that their constituents will not allow our health and our future to be traded away — especially not while they keep doling out billions to dirty energy companies. Send a message to your members of Congress right now urging them to put an end to Big Oil handouts, not our environmental protection programs. If we ended the handouts that we currently give to oil and gas companies, it would save more than $40 billion over the next 10 years. Given the furor over cutting wasteful spending, this should be a no-brainer. But Congress won't do it without hearing from you today. So we hope you'll join us in asking your member of Congress to stop subsidizing an industry that harms our health, and invest instead in clean energy jobs that will that strengthen our environment, our economy, and our energy independence. Thanks, Gene Karpinski President League of Conservation Voters

1920 L Street, NW Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036
202-785-8683