A candidate who won’t cook the planet

06/08/2007

Dear DFLers,


If we want to avert climate chaos, there's only one solution: real leadership from our next President. We need someone who'll stand up to the oil, coal, and car companies and carve the path for clean energy in every city and town.

So, today we're launching our Climate Virtual Town Hall Meeting. The candidates will answer questions from MoveOn members about their plans for curbing climate change, and then we'll vote together on who'll do the best job turning this crisis around.

The process starts with you. What questions do you have for the candidates? And which candidates should we invite? Click here to get the ball rolling.
http://pol.moveon.org/townhall/climate/invite.html?id=10494-8299453-ABNnDR&t=2

The climate crisis is one of the great moral issues of our time, and the clock is ticking. Science shows that even if we stop pumping greenhouse gases into the air tomorrow, we'll still have rising sea levels, super hurricanes, and spreading disease. If we keep on polluting—well, it could look a whole lot worse.

But we have a chance to take a sharp turn towards a clean energy economy. We know how to do it—we just need the political will.

Our town hall in April helped define the candidates' positions on the war and sending a clear signal about what we want to see. We need to send the same message on global warming by asking the tough questions and rewarding strong positions. (We'll also hold one on health care in the Fall.)

We're partnering with the League of Conservation Voters, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, and Campaign for America's Future to make this an amazing event—full of great information on the issue and an examination of solutions from every angle.

We know you've got great questions! All you need to do is video yourself asking your question and upload the video to YouTube. Then, the candidates will answer your questions directly during the Virtual Town Hall meetings. There are specific instructions to do this once you vote for which candidates you want to hear from.

You'll get a chance to sneak preview the candidates' positions during our special Party for the Planet house parties which will coincide with the biggest ever event on global warming—Al Gore's Live Earth concerts on July 7th. So, mark your calendars now for the evening of July 7th and we'll send more information soon.

There's never been more momentum to solve our climate crisis than there is right now, but to see this challenge through, we need to have true leadership from our nation's next leader. The first step is to vote for who you want to hear from in the Town Hall Meeting. We'll invite any candidate that gets more than 10 percent of member votes. Click here to vote or to submit a question:

http://pol.moveon.org/townhall/climate/invite.html?id=10494-8299453-ABNnDR&t=3

Thanks for all you do,

–Ilyse, Jennifer, Laura, Natalie, and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team
Friday, June 8th, 2007

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