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Show Up and Speak Up for Climate Change Legislation

August 10, 2010 By heather-taylormiesle-nrdc-action-fund Leave a Comment

Congress is heading back home for the August recess this week. Apparently our Senators need to rest after they failed to take up both a clean energy and climate bill and an oil spill bill. Legislative inaction must be more tiring than I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: clean-air-act, clean-energy, climate-bill, congress, energy, green-energy, gulf-oil-spill, nrdc-action-fund, politics-news

Coal Barons Meeting Today in Hopes of Ending All Climate Debate for a Generation

August 5, 2010 By heather-taylormiesle-nrdc-action-fund 1 Comment

Today, a bunch of coal executives are congregating for the West Virginia Coal Association annual meeting at the luxurious Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, WV. One of the primary things they will discuss is the formation of a 527 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: clean-energy, climate-bill, climate-change, climate-legislation, international-coal-group, nrdc, nrdc-action-fund, politics-news, west-virginia-coal-association

Lessons from the “Enlightened Eight”: Republicans Can Vote Pro-Environment and Not Get “Tea Partied

July 14, 2010 By heather-taylormiesle-nrdc-action-fund 8 Comments

On June 26, 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 219-212 in favor of HR 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES). Only eight Republicans - we'll call them the "Enlightened Eight" - voted "aye." These … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cap-and-trade, clean-energy, climate-bill, climate-change, congress, nrdc-action-fund, politics-news, primaries, tea-party

Oily Apologies vs. Clean Energy Momentum

June 21, 2010 By heather-taylormiesle-nrdc-action-fund 11 Comments

It is yet another big week for clean energy. The President is having a group of bipartisan senators over to discuss how to get a clean energy bill moving that addresses the source of the gulf spill. One guy who won't be attending is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bp-oil-spill, clean-energy, climate-bill, joe-barton, nrdc-action-fund, politics-news, senate

Five Reasons Clean Energy Trumps Tea Party Slogans

May 28, 2010 By heather-taylormiesle-nrdc-action-fund Leave a Comment

Sometimes I think America is the proverbial child-star-gone-bad of nations: we have a crippling addiction, but we still won't go to rehab. We are hooked on burning dirty fossil fuels like cavemen, and no matter how many times we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2010-elections, aces, cleanenergy, climate-change, congress, facebook, politics-news, tea-party

One Month After The Oil Spill, It’s Time To Act.

May 20, 2010 By jamesboyce 6 Comments

Today, on the month anniversary of the spill, I think we all need to take a moment and realize what the spill really means - the devastation in the Gulf is a reflection of our collective failure to force Washington and our elected … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: oil-spill, politics-news, robert-redford

Scott Brown: Don’t Forget. It’s The People’s Seat.

April 7, 2010 By jamesboyce 2 Comments

It appears to me that Scott Brown is having a touch of an identity crisis. Or maybe it's a crisis of a man who is debating between his own beliefs and the beliefs of the national party he belongs to and the far right wing of that … [Read more...]

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Four Years Later, Great Ideas Are Going Direct To Voter

October 23, 2008 By jamesboyce Leave a Comment

However, from my personal perspective, there is one more place where I see a massive difference between now and 2004 and that is the explosion of direct to voter video. Great messaging on behalf of our Presidential Candidate is not just … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2008, barack-obama, campaigns, conservatives, politics-news, presidential-election, republicans, veterans

Millions Of Dollars Versus Millions Of Voters

July 31, 2008 By james-boyce-and-dave-johnson 2 Comments

In a democracy, every person has a single vote. Unfortunately, what is becoming increasingly true is that someone with millions of dollars and the willingness to fund front groups has the ability to influence millions of votes. Take the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: front-groups, john-mccain, politics-news, sheldon-adelson, vets-for-freedom

The Ironic Destruction Of Our National Guard Under President “Do Not Volunteer For Overseas”

July 30, 2008 By jamesboyce 3 Comments

- Over 267,000 men and women of the National Guard have been deployed since September 11, 2001. - 35 states have deployed more troops to Iraq and Afghanistan than to any war since World War II - From now to the end of Bush's term in office, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: john-mccain, national-guard, politics-news, veterans-for-america

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bluemassgroupBlue Mass. Group@bluemassgroup·
3 Mar

When Scott Brown won in January 2010, Alan Khazei told us, “you can’t read too much into it. It’s a special election!”

Bad result but good to keep in mind.

Stephanie Murray@stephanie_murr

Looks like JEFF TURCO wins the race to replace former House Speaker Robert DeLeo in the 19th Suffolk District. JUAN PABLO JARAMILLO comes in second by just under 300 votes.

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bluemassgroupBlue Mass. Group@bluemassgroup·
3 Mar

Yikes.

Adam Bass@AdamBassWCCS

The idea of a Pro Life Trump supporter winning Suffolk 19 is not out of the ordinary. Winthrop is particular is much more right leaning that Revere. And Revere got severely out voted. When Capobianco had his story, that left you with two progressives. #mapoli

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Jo_ComerfordJo Comerford@Jo_Comerford·
2 Mar

.@CDCgov dir. @RWalensky, once part of MA's #COVID19 advsy board, said

"Now is not the time to relax the critical safeguards that we know can stop the spread of COVID-19 ... not when we are so close."

But @MassGovernor pushes to reopen.

Who is advising Gov. Baker now?

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JoeCurtatoneJoseph A. Curtatone@JoeCurtatone·
1 Mar

It's time to state outright that Charlie Baker's science advisory team is the Chamber of Commerce. That's why we were slow to act last year, why our public health network got ignored on vaccines & why our reopenings have flown in the face of data, expert advice & common sense. https://twitter.com/MikeConnollyMA/status/1366423893276303364

Mike Connolly@MikeConnollyMA

Just reiterating my COVID philosophy: Instead of bucking advice from the CDC and Dr. Fauci (by further reopening the Mass. economy), we should #TaxTheRich and use the new revenue to provide cash relief to people in need and small businesses while also investing in health equity.

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2 Mar

He’s running

Simón Ríos@simonfrios

Mayor Joe Curtatone announces this is his final year as mayor of Somerville. @WBUR

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