Return-Path: Delivered-To: harvey@ic.net Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 00:27:13 -0400 To: Recipient List Suppressed:; From: Harold Stokes X-UIDL: 3dd7cb898be721a556e50b4a9249509a X-From_: list-errors.700001213.0.700205450.004@boing.topica.com Fri Jul 28 12:22:46 2000 To: the-alliance@igc.topica.com From: Easy@landscouncil.org Subject: ALL: ENVIRONMENTALISTS AGAINST GORE Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:21:14 -0700 Reply-To: the-alliance@igc.topica.com X-Topica-Loop: 700001213 >Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 08:21:43 -0700 ENVIRONMENTALISTS AGAINST GORE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, July 20, 2000 Contact: Tim Hermach, 541.688.2600 More than fifty environmental leaders from 18 states announced today the formation of ENVIRONMENTALISTS AGAINST GORE, and urged people who care about protecting Nature in America to listen to their conscience and vote for anyone for President other than Democratic candidate Al Gore. "Gore is getting the endorsement of some national environmental groups only because they are so afraid of George Bush, and so intimidated by the Gore campaign's where-else-can-you-go attitude," said Tim Hermach, one of the organizers of Environmentalists Against Gore. "Vice President Gore has a long record of making campaign promises about protecting nature, and then breaking his promise every time one of his political supporters wants to do something that would damage, degrade or destroy a forest, river or stream, even a National Park," Hermach added. "If George W. Bush wins the election, then at least we could expect the national environmental community to really fight, at least a bit, for tougher pollution enforcement and genuine protection of nature," said David Brower, another founder of Environmentalists Against Gore. "From Alaska to the Everglades, Gore talks about being an environmentalist, but quietly sells out to the clear-cutting timber barons or big oil or the sugar industry or the real estate speculators, even when that means terrible damage to forests and parks and wildlife. And we lose those fights because when Al Gore sells out, most of the environmental community pretends that the problem lies in the Congress, or in the federal agencies, and won't help the American people carry the fight to the White House where the decisions are really made." "When Clinton-Gore took office, environmentalists had high hopes. Those hopes have been routinely dashed by Administration policies that have turned our nation's watchdog environmental laws into lap dogs with no teeth. Clinton-Gore have rolled back endangered species protections, increased logging of old growth forests, and handed over our nation's rich biological legacy to corporate interests," said Brian Vincent, a conservationist in Nevada City, California. "Al Gore is about as green as Jesse Helms is liberal," said Vincent. All the environmental leaders supporting the organization released this statement: "Many of our members support Ralph Nader, and others believe that even having George W. Bush in the White House will lead to better protection for nature and wildlife than we would expect from Al Gore. We've seen Gore turn his back on the people of Appalachia while mountains and streams are illegally destroyed by strip miners. We've seen Gore talk about the importance of preserving national forests while increasing logging in proposed "protected" roadless areas and newly created national monuments. We've seen him talk about fighting sprawl while he's promoting sleazy real estate deals that would move industrial jobs away from urban Miami onto farmland between two National Parks. We've heard him lecture the world about preserving nature in the tropics, while he has encouraged the sugar industry to continue destroying our own Everglades. We've read candidate Gore's press releases about protecting our beaches from offshore drilling, and then watched Vice President Gore say it is none of his business if his own Administration promotes offshore drilling. We've watched Gore pretend not to know about it when his own White House staff and the federal agencies turn the Endangered Species Act into a tool for extinction. We believe that nature and wildlife, in the United States and in the world, will be better protected if we return to an honest national debate about the role of the environment in our lives and economy, instead of the cynical, orchestrated charade that Vice President Gore plays out whenever he deals with social, economic, and environmental justice issues." For more information see the attached: Names & contact numbers of founding members, Environmentalists Against Gore Environmentalists Against Gore July 21, 2000 1. We can't get what we want by voting for what we don't want. 2. We can't win by submitting to fear of imagined Republican actions. 3. We can't condone or reward the established record of dishonesty, smoke & mirrors, shell games and betrayal. 4. We can't get good & honest people to run if we repeatedly fail to support the ones that do. 5. We demand Fair & Open Debates and honest politicians. 6. We demand that People and the Public Interest receive the importance now given to corporations and corporate cash. 7. We realize that false friends can do more harm than known adversaries. 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