Subject: Gale Norton For Secretary Of Interior
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:48:37 -0700
Outdoor Enthusiasts:
Below are posts both pro and con regarding Gale Norton, Secretary of Interior
nominee and other cabinet appointments. How you choose to react is your
prerogative as always.
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Dear Subscriber:
PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS (202-224-3121 - Capitol Switchboard) NOW AND SUPPORT
GALE NORTON FOR SECRETARY OF INTERIOR!
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold hearings and vote on
Gale Norton's nomination on January 18 and 19 - that's right - THIS WEEK, this
Thursday and Friday.
HERE'S WHAT RADICAL ENVIROS ARE SAYING...
"A natural disaster!"-according to the Sierra Club
"A direct assault on the nation's public lands!"-according to the Defenders of Wildlife
"Corporate interests over our children's natural heritage!"-according to the Wilderness Society
THAT'S BECAUSE....
She is smart, conservative, believes in the free enterprise system and has shown
that sometimes, states and communities have the better ideas than the federal
government.
This is very good for us, but very bad for the Washington, DC radical
environmentalist crowd.
So they are whining, yammering and making all sorts of noise. None of it makes
much sense, but it does scare a lot of people. In particular, it scares United
States Senators.
SO YOU PICK UP THE PHONE AND CALL if you want Gale Norton to win confirmation and become Secretary of the Interior.
Here are two best things you can say when you call:
* Gale Norton supports including state and local government in the decision making process, instead of command and control from Washington, DC.
* Gale Norton supports access for the public to public lands, instead of locking
it up into wilderness where only a few can enjoy it.
THE SENATE ENERGY & NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE, WILL BE CONDUCTING NORTON'S
CONFIRMATION HEARINGS THIS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. THESE SENATORS ARE THE MEMBERS OF THAT COMMITTEE WHO ARE UNDECIDED. THEY NEED TO HEAR FROM ALL OF US!
Daniel Akaka (D - Hawaii) <senator@akaka.senate.gov>
Evan Bayh (D - Indiana) <senator@bayh.senate.gov>
Jeff Bingaman (D - New Mexico) <senator_bingaman@bingaman.senate.gov>
Maria Cantwell (D - Washington) call (202) 224-3442 for address
Byron Dorgan (D - North Dakota) <senator@dorgan.senate.gov>
Diane Feinstein (D - California) <senator@feinstein.senate.gov>
Peter Fitzgerald (R - Illinois) <senator_fitzgerald@f itzgerald.senate.gov>
Bob Graham (D - Florida) <bob_graham@graham.senate.gov>
Mary Landrieu (D - Louisiana) <senator@landrieu.senate.gov>
Chuck Schumer (D - New York) <senator@schumer.senate.gov>
Ron Wyden (D - Oregon) <senator_wyden@excha nge.senate.gov>
AFTER THE COMMITTEE HEARINGS AND VOTE, THE FULL SENATE WILL VOTE ON NORTON
SOMETIME IN FEBRUARY
YOU CAN ALSO SEND A FREE FAX TO YOUR SENATORS IN SUPPORT OF NORTON Log on this
website: http://www.responsiblerecreation.com It will ask you to sign on. Then,
you can go to a section where you can compose and send a free fax to your
Senators! Remember, faxes get more attention than e-mail!
Thanks for your help!
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Date: 1/13/1 4:48 PM
From: Mel Wolf
http://www.saynotonorton.org/(http://www.saynotonorton.org/)
Welcome to SayNoToNorton.org , a Web site to make it easy for citizens to tell
their U.S. senators that they oppose President-elect Bush's selection of Gale
Norton as Secretary of the Interior. Since the Senate must vote to approve the
Norton nomination, we urge citizens to make their voices heard.
A protege of the notorious Reagan Interior secretary, James Watt, Gale Norton's
publicly stated positions make it clear that she should not be trusted to head the agency charged with protection of 500 million acres of federal land, rescuing endangered species and managing the national parks.
Norton is a close friend of oil companies and other corporate interests, and she
has spent her career advancing the causes of polluters.
She publicly supports oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- a
critical area for caribou, polar bears and other creatures and the crown jewel of America's wildlife sanctuaries. While one of Watt's deputies at the Interior
Department, she helped craft the legal basis for the Reagan administration's
efforts to open the refuge's coastal plain to drilling.
As Colorado's attorney general, she allowed polluters to evade environmental
fines and did little after a gold mine's cyanide leaks killed all life in a
17-mile stretch of river. In another case, she sat out the fight against a
corporate power plant that broke air pollution laws 19,000 times.
She advocates laws allowing polluters to police themselves and believes that
taxpayers should pay polluters to comply with environmental laws.
Ask your senators to say no to Norton and oppose her nomination. Save our public
lands from extremist multinational oil and mining companies, the timber industry
and other polluters.
Dear Senator:
I urge you to reject Gale Norton's nomination as Secretary of the Interior when
it comes before the Senate. Her record supporting polluters and corporate
interests over natural resources makes it clear that she would try to circumvent
the very laws the Interior Department is sworn to uphold.
As a lawyer, she lobbied for a lead-paint manufacturer that had been sued
repeatedly over toxic-waste sites. As Colorado attorney general, she stood by as
polluters contaminated the state. She has suggested that the government recognize the "right to pollute." While at the Interior Department, she worked to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, an objective she has pledged to pursue again.
Gale Norton is an extremist who is out of touch with the views of the
overwhelming majority of Americans. She espouses the radical opinions of her
mentor, former Interior Secretary James Watt. Americans deserve an Interior
secretary who will protect our nation's natural heritage, not destroy it. For the sake of our environment now and in the future, please vote against her appointment and urge your Senate colleagues to oppose her as well.
Sincerely,
*Your first name:
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http://www.saynotonorton.org/
Welcome to SayNoToNorton.org , a Web site to make it easy for citizens to tell their U.S. senators that they oppose President-elect Bush's selection of Gale Norton as Secretary of the Interior. Since the Senate must vote to approve the Norton nomination, we urge citizens to make their voices heard.
A protege of the notorious Reagan Interior secretary, James Watt, Gale Norton's publicly stated positions make it clear that she should not be trusted to head the agency charged with protection of 500 million acres of federal land, rescuing endangered species and managing the national parks.
Norton is a close friend of oil companies and other corporate interests, and she has spent her career advancing the causes of polluters.
She publicly supports oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- a critical area for caribou, polar bears and other creatures and the crown jewel of America's wildlife sanctuaries. While one of Watt's deputies at the Interior Department, she helped craft the legal basis for the Reagan administration's efforts to open the refuge's coastal plain to drilling.
As Colorado's attorney general, she allowed polluters to evade environmental fines and did little after a gold mine's cyanide leaks killed all life in a 17-mile stretch of river. In another case, she sat out the fight against a corporate power plant that broke air pollution laws 19,000 times.
She advocates laws allowing polluters to police themselves and believes that taxpayers should pay polluters to comply with environmental laws.
Ask your senators to say no to Norton and oppose her nomination. Save our public lands from extremist multinational oil and mining companies, the timber industry and other polluters.
Dear Senator:
I urge you to reject Gale Norton's nomination as Secretary of the Interior when it comes before the Senate. Her record supporting polluters and corporate interests over natural resources makes it clear that she would try to circumvent the very laws the Interior Department is sworn to uphold.
As a lawyer, she lobbied for a lead-paint manufacturer that had been sued repeatedly over toxic-waste sites. As Colorado attorney general, she stood by as polluters contaminated the state. She has suggested that the government recognize the "right to pollute." While at the Interior Department, she worked to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, an objective she
has pledged to pursue again.
Gale Norton is an extremist who is out of touch with the views of the overwhelming majority of Americans. She espouses the radical opinions of her mentor, former Interior Secretary James Watt. Americans deserve an Interior secretary who will protect our nation's natural heritage, not destroy it. For the sake of our environment now and in the future, please vote against her appointment and urge your Senate colleagues to oppose her as well.
Sincerely,
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