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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- Yes
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- Although I have not worked in the area of alternate energy, I am a Mechanical Engineer by education. I have been frustrated (since 1973) not only by the failure of our elected officials to provide leadership in breaking our dependence on foreign oil but also our own citizens failure to understand the crises that has loomed for so long. Now push has come to shove and we must demand our elected officials set a course of action to break our foreign oil dependence and our dependence on fossil fuel in general.
I am passionate about this, we must, I repeat, we must do this for our children’s sake
- What excites you about this campaign?
- Someone with the credibility and resources like Mr. Pickens (a modern day captain of industry) has stepped forward and is actually doing something to galvanize the American people behind this!!!!
I see this as dire as the day America woke up, December 8, 1941.
- What do you want to do to help?
- ANYTHING
But this is what I have been doing using the power of the pen.
I would like to think the hard hitting letters of criticism, I sent to the editor (Post Star), had in some small measure a hand in defeating a do nothing US House Representative 20th district NY
This is a sampling of what I sent, we all need to do more of this.
See a last generic sample letter that can be modified at the end of the ones I have sent. Make no mistake letters to the editor do work!
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Sunday, July 27, 2008 1:59 AM EDT
Editor:
Let's hear something unique, substantive and inspiring instead of the "I'm Sandy Treadwell and I approved this message" message. The truth would be good since you've been a Xxxxxxxxx political operative most of your life and know well the connection to big corporate money and big oil. Mr. Treadwell, we're about the same age and we both lived through the 1973 Arab oil embargo so try this.
Folks, in 1973 we ignored the message sent us by the Arab oil embargo. Day after day Americans waited in long gas lines, for a 10 gallon ration. We in government sat by, watched and talked to death our need to become energy independent. We had 35 years to make this happen, but did nothing.
This is a policy:
- Put the U.S. on a war-footing economy, with a mandate to reduce our energy consumption by 15 percent the first year and 3 percent each year after, rationing gas if necessary.
- We can't drill our way out of this as some would have you believe.
- Task our academic institutions and industry with a five year, no-budge deadline to bring us the range of renewable energy resources with significant dollars and legislative support. (Have we forgotten Americans built the atomic bomb in six years 60 years ago and flew to the moon in eight years, all in a 30-year span 1939 to 1969?)
- Place a windfall profit tax on the oil companies.
- It is going to be costly, and our standard of living will continue to suffer for the next five to 10 years as it did during World War II until we solve our dependence problem.
- Redeploy our troops to Afghanistan where the bad guys were all along. (See T. Boon Pickens www.pickensplan.com.)
DOUG AUER
Registered Conservative
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Congressmen’s Honesty called to Question
Published: Friday, October 27, 2006
Congressmen Sweeney should be honest about the reason for sending our brave men and women to war. War in any form means that many of those sent will die, and many more will suffer physical and emotional scars for the rest of their lives. This is not a video game to play.
The truth is our foreign policy is driven solely by our dependence on the black goo that flows from holes in the ever-shifting sands of politically corrupt fiefdoms. We are trading the blood of our loved ones for oil.
We need to make America's energy independence a priority. We have had since 1973 to make this happen. Any further dalliance is unacceptable.
Feigned compassion of elected officials for our family members in uniform is not a "pass go" ticket for re-election. Armored vehicles and body armor don't protect our soldiers from an IED. A policy of "stay the course" or "flexibility" is not a policy.
This is a policy:
* Redeploy our troops out of the cities in Iraq into defensive positions protecting Iraq's oil assets with rapid deployment capability.
* Put the U.S. on a war-footing economy, with a mandate to reduce our energy consumption by 15 percent the first year.
* Task our academic institutions and industry with a five year, no-budge deadline to bring us the range of renewable energy resources we have only heard politicians talk about, yourself included. (Americans built the atomic bomb in less time more than 60 years ago.)
My son serves in Iraq. But Congressman Sweeney, your son does not. Why should the voters trust you, and the failed "stay the course" you support, with the lives of our precious children?
DOUGLAS A. AUER
Registered Conservative
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:14 PM EDT
Editor:
The Bush administration and this Congress has no viable plan for Iraq. We desperately need a congressional representative who can help change that.
To Congressman Sweeney, I respectfully submit the following starting points for consideration.
* Have the courage to acknowledge that our current foreign policy is driven by our dependence on foreign oil. Help us become energy independent by supporting serious alternative energy research and development with significant dollars and legislative support on a Manhattan project scale. In 1960 we were challenged to "Land a Man on the Moon" by the end of the decade. We flew to the moon by 1969 with no foreign help. We can figure out how to become energy independent by 2010.
* Require that all members of Congress, so quick to send our children in harm's way, enlist their own children in the military and send them to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of us in the 20th district have loved ones serving in the military; to us it's not abstract.
* Admit the true cost of this "War on Terror." Don't hide the billions of dollars of cost in special appropriations outside the budget.
* Reinstate war bond sales to determine the real level of support for this war. To the challenge of World War II, Americans gave voluntarily with their wallets, as well as their lives. By Jan. 3, 1946, approximately 85 million Americans -- more than half the population -- had purchased $185.7 billion of war bonds on a median annual income of just $2,000.
Finally, I would suggest that to achieve these goals you chose one of the following: lead, follow or get out of the way. Congressman Sweeney, I was one of the Warren County Conservative Committee members who collected Conservative Party petition signatures on your behalf.
DOUGLAS A. AUER
Warren County Conservative Committeeman-at-large
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Congressmen Sweeney’s honesty
Editor:
Jun. 29, 2007
When I questioned last fall former Congressmen Sweeney ’s honesty regarding his support of the Bush administration ’s insane policy of “stay the course ” and “flexibility, ” I sadly didn’t realize how right I was.
This is no longer a game of pick a policy, not when our bravest youth in uniform are being killed, physically torn limb from limb or emotionally destroyed. We cannot succeed in Iraq because too many Iraqis are bent on revenge and not reconciliation. If you think the conflict doesn’t affect you because it is someone else’s son, daughter, husband, wife or loved one who is doing the heavy lifting, think again - open your eyes. This administration’s policies and the war they have wrought on us, whether by incompetence or design, will adversely affect every American living today and for generations to come, financially, morally and diplomatically.
The United States, and much of the world, are at greater risk of terrorism spawned in reaction to what we have done in Iraq under false pretenses. The bad guys are still in Afghanistan and getting stronger. As a nation, we must have the courage to acknowledge that our current foreign policy is driven by our dependence on foreign oil. We need to become energy independent by supporting serious alternative energy research and development with significant dollars and legislative support on a Manhattan project scale. In 1960, we were challenged to “Land a Man on the Moon ” by the end of the decade. We flew to the moon by 1969 with no foreign help. We can figure out how to become energy independent by 2010.
This madness has got to stop now, get involved.
DOUG AUER
Registered Conservative
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We have done nothing and spent nothing on alternate energy research and development. People lets stop making excuses as to why it is so difficult to solve our fossil fuel energy dependence crises. Look at the time frame 1939 to 1969 and read the letter I sent to the editor of our local news paper, about a month ago in response to the say nothing tv ads being run by a wanna be political operative. The word “nothing” is relative and when you compare all the money we have spent on “alternate energy research and development” to what we have spent on the war in Iraq, it is nothing. We need to get serious!
“Let’s hear something unique, substantive and inspiring instead of the “ I’m Xxx Xxxxx and I approved this message” message. The truth would be good since you’ve been a Xxxxxxx political operative most of your life and know well the connection to big corporate money and big oil.
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx we’re about the same age and we both lived through the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo so try this:
Folks, in 1973 we ignored the message sent us by the Arab oil embargo. Day after day Americans waited in long gas lines, for a 10 gallon ration. We in government sat by, watched and talked to death our need to become energy independent. We had 35 years to make this happen, but did nothing.
This is a policy:
∑ Put the U.S. on a war-footing economy, with a mandate to reduce our energy consumption by 15 percent the first year and 3% each year after, rationing gas if necessary.
∑ We can’t drill our way out of this as some would have you believe
∑ Task our academic institutions and industry with a five year, no-budge deadline to bring us the range of renewable energy resources with significant dollars and legislative support (Have we forgotten Americans built the atomic bomb in 6 years, 60 years ago and flew to the Moon in 8 years all in a 30 year span 1939 to 1969 and paid fore all of it)
∑ Place a wind fall profit tax on the oil companies with the proceeds going to the above
∑ It is going to be costly and our standard of living will continue to suffer for the next 5 to 10 years as it did during WWII until we solve our dependence problem.
∑ Redeploy our troops to Afghanistan where the bad guys were all along.
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2. Gerry Kempen also has over 120 new supporters. I visited him today, at his very nice Liquor store, "Good Spirits" in Middletown, RI to thank him. Gerry's supporters put us over the top. RI-01 reached the 500 goal today - Inauguration Day. Yippee!
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