This all started with an email I received in Facebook
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Information On The Republican 8 Who Voted For Cap & Trade, Plus IBD Editorial . . .
To members of
The REAL GREAT AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE PROTEST . . . ON-LINE!"Apologies for the significant length, but it's several sets of info . . . List of 8 Republicans who voted for the 'Cap & Trade' bill and their contact information:Bono Mary Mack (CA) 202-225-5330 Fax (202) 225-2961
http://bono.house.gov/Contact_Mary/Castle Mike (DE) 202-225-4165 Fax 202.225.2291
http://www.castle.house.gov/Contact/Kirk Mark (IL) 202-225-4835 Fax: 202-225-0837
http://www.house.gov/kirk/zipauth.shtmlLance Leonard (NJ) 202-225-5361 Fax: (202) 225-9460
http://lance.house.gov/?sectionid=48§iontree=3,48Lobiondo Frank (NJ) 202-225-6572 (fax)(202) 225-3318
http://www.house.gov/lobiondo/IMA/issue.htm McHugh John (NY) 202-225-4611 Fax (202) 226-0621
http://mchugh.house.gov/zipauth.aspxReichart Dave (WA) 202-225-7761 Fax (202) 225-4282
http://reichert.house.gov/Contact/ZipAuth.htmSmith Chris (NJ) 202-225-3765 Fax 202-225-7768
http://chrissmith.house.gov/zipauth.htmlAccording to this website, there is a period during which they can change their vote:
http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=108383728936&h=SRGFN&u=wrDlm&ref=mfIf you know ANYONE in any of these congressional districts, THAT MUCH BETTER. Also, remember that this ridiculous legislation will now be sent to the Senate for vote. It is important to begin contacting them IMMEDIATELY, letting them know you will work against them in the future, support any candidate they face IF THEY SUPPORT THIS RIDICULOUS bill.* * * *And, finally, an editorial from Investor's Business Daily (IBD) on this Bill:Editorial, Investor's Business DailyFiscal Policy: The House of Representatives is preparing to vote on an anti-stimulus package that in the name of saving the earth will destroy the American economy. Smoot-Hawley will seem like a speed bump. Not since a misguided piece of legislation imposed tariffs that turned a recession into a depression has there been a piece of legislation as bad as Waxman-Markey. The 1,000-plus-page American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454) is being rushed to a vote by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi before anyone can seriously object to this economic suicide pact.It’s what Janet Napolitano, secretary of Homeland Security, might call a “man-caused disaster,” a phrase she coined to replace the politically incorrect “terrorist attack.” But no terrorist could ever dream of inflicting as much damage as this bill. Its centerpiece is a “cap and trade” provision that has been rightfully derided as “cap and tax.” It is in fact a tax on energy everywhere it is consumed on everything it is used to make or provide. It is the largest tax increase in American history — a tax on all Americans — even the 95% that President Obama pledged would never see a tax increase. It’s a political bill that could come to a vote now that a deal was struck with farm-state legislators concerned about the taxation of even bovine flatulence. As part of the agreement reached Tuesday night and announced by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Beverly Hills), agricultural oversight for cap-and-trade was transferred from the Environmental Protection Agency to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Farmers hope the USDA will be less intrusive. The EPA has been tasked by a Supreme Court ruling to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from your nostrils to your lawn mower. This even covers the emissions of barnyard animals, including the methane from cows. The American Farm Bureau warns that cap and trade would cost the average farmer $175 on every dairy cow and $80 for beef cattle. So farm-state politics trumped climate change. We all know about farmers paid not to grow food. But now, American taxpayers apparently will be paying companies not to chop down trees. The Washington Times reports that as part of the legislation, the House will also be voting Friday on a plan to pay domestic and international companies around the world not to cut down trees. Such offsets “would be a transfer of wealth overseas,” said William Kovacs, vice president for environmental affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. So if a tree falls in a Brazilian forest, does a U.S. taxpayer make a sound? As we’ve said before, capping emissions is capping economic growth. An analysis of Waxman-Markey by the Heritage Foundation projects that by 2035 it would reduce aggregate gross domestic product by $7.4 trillion. In an average year, 844,000 jobs would be destroyed, with peak years seeing unemployment rise by almost 2 million (see charts below). Consumers would pay through the nose as electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket, as President Obama once put it, by 90% adjusted for inflation. Inflation-adjusted gasoline prices would rise 74%, residential natural gas prices by 55% and the average family’s annual energy bill by $1,500. Hit hardest by all this would be the “95% of working families” Obama keeps mentioning as being protected from increased taxation. They are protected, that is, unless they use energy. Then they’ll be hit by this draconian energy tax. And what would we get for all this pain? According to an analysis by Chip Knappenberger, administrator of the World Climate Report, the reduction of U.S. CO2 emissions to 83% below 2005 levels by 2050 — the goal of the Waxman-Markey bill — would reduce global temperature in 2050 by a mere 0.05 degree Celsius. President Obama has called on the U.S. to “lead by example” on global warming. During the campaign, he said: “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times . . . and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.” Soon we may not be able to. Other countries can just sit back and watch us destroy ourselves. Where will you be when the lights go out?
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and now my Letter to Rep. Dave Reichert (R, Wa-8) my representitive:
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Dear Mr. Reichert,
Let Me first start of by saying how pleased I was 3 years ago when I moved to Ravensdale Washington and discovered that I was in your district and could vote in support of you. I have always thought very highly of you and the work you have done for the 8th district as well as the people of King County in your term as county Sheriff and as a congressman in Washington DC.
With that having been said, it has come to my attention that you voted in support of HR 2454. I am Deeply saddened by your apparent departure from the truths that the Republican Party has stood by for my entire life. I believe that the provisions of this bill will only hurt America and most importantly the small business owners. My brother and sister-in-law own a small farm and Produce stand just north of Enumclaw on SR169. They are already having to deal with excess regulation from the King county Council and the State of Washington, and this bill as it stands will only make things more difficult for them as well as myself and my family to make a living. We are basically going to be sending all the real jobs overseas to places like China, whom have already many times demonstrated their lack of concern for environmental and health issues by the fact of using lead based paints on children's toys of all things. I believe that it is time that we started taking an "America First" attitude instead of apologizing to the world as Mr. Obama is so fond of doing. We are going to continue to lose real jobs in America with this legislation and they will be replaced with Nothing. America will only suffer from this piece of legislation. It is my understanding that you have 5 Days from the date of the vote to change your vote. I PLEAD with you to do this and not support this abomination of environmental legislation. I will turn 40 in December and I have voted republican in EVERY election since I was 18, I am afraid though that if your vote stands on this bill, I will have no other choice but to actively support your opponent come the next primary cycle here in Washington State. I have 2 daughters, ages 17 and 12, I would like them to grow up in an America that is still the land of unlimited opportunity that I had the privilege of growing up in and not the Socialist Utopia of limited opportunity and Government control that the liberals in congress and the Whitehouse have planned. Please return to the Republican ideals of Ronald Reagan and make America into the great country that she once was and not the cowering ineffective laughingstock that she is now. Give me a reason to be a proud American again. In this week where we are celebrating patriotism and the birth of out great nation it is time for a renewal of those values that made America great and not the other way around. Hoping you do what is "Right" and work to make America great again.
GOD BLESS AMERICA,"
