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This is an open letter to the 2012 Republican Candidate Hopefuls from Laura Burns:
Dear Sirs,
Every morning as I drink my coffee, I read news updates about your primary campaigns. I’m a Republican mom. And I’m so sad. All of you are religious and conservative. You’ve made your positions clear on issues like abortion, national debt and education. Not one of you agrees 100% with the other…and that’s OK. That’s why there’s a choice that helps us decide who will be the best fit for our presidential candidate. Time passes and debates have been won, yet I feel a very limited sense of confidence in my potential Republican candidate.
I realize that since President Nixon’s tenure, Republicans haven’t placed a high priority on the environment, but NOW is the time for change. NOW is the time in our country’s history that you need to stand up and make positive choices for our natural resources. These resources are all we have to pass down to our children. These children are the future of our country!
Mothers all over the US are angry. We are angry about the pathetic state of our air quality. We are angry that our children suffer from asthma in unprecedented numbers and cannot enjoy being children…running and playing.
As a mother in Ohio, I don’t want my state to continue to be the most toxic state in the union. I don’t want to wake up on summer days and worry about the air quality being too poor for us to play outside. I want to be able to let my children enjoy nature without fear of toxins and pollution. Please hear our voices and take the time to revisit your positions on environmental issues. Take the time to truly count the cost of the Clean Air Act and see the long-term benefits. Consider the damage done if we throw away all that has been worked toward in the last two decades. Please listen to mothers; we’re fighting for our children, their health and their world. If necessary, go against the party line and take a stand with us for our environment and for clean air.
I implore you to think about our children, your children and their future. Remember this as you debate over healthcare: 1 in 5 Americans suffer from asthma. This horrible illness eats up billions of dollars in healthcare, causes thousands of missed days of school or work, and sadly claims hundreds of lives each year. Asthma sufferers would be some the first people who could benefit from strong protections of our environment. Please consider the whole picture as you make your decisions. Do not write off environmental issues as something that won’t really be worth your efforts. I promise you, that when it comes to clean air and our children, mothers will vote with our hearts.
Sincerely,
Laura Burns (mother of 2)
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+ add your own@John S: Republican is a party. Environmentalist is a philosophy. Are you telling this lady she doesn't know what party she belongs to, or that she doesn't know what she believes?
In fact, there are plenty of us die-hard, environmentalists in the Republican Party. You just don't hear about us because the fanatics are hogging the microphone. As Chad A. said, Reagan would have been a middle-of-the-road Democrat today. Many of us Reaganites are still in the party and have even migrated leftward as we grow in years and wisdom. But we still cling desperately, for as long as we can, to the hope that we can bring our party back to sanity. We shall see what this election brings; needless to say, "environmentalist Republicans" will not be voting for any of the candidates currently running for the nomination.
The poor woman who wrote this letter is deluded. Republican environmentalist is an oxymoron.
There's hope. "Mitt Romney's Struggles Take Republican Angst To New Heights ". Article in the Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/09/mitt-romney-republican_n_1266265.html?ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=021012&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NewsEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
@ Chad A. GW Bush + Koch Brothers + TEA Party + Pseudo-Christians
We used to have a Republican party that competed for the support of regular people instead of sitting back and collecting cash and doing whatever the most extreme extremists demanded. Obama's healthcare reforms are more conservative than Nixon's proposals. Then-extremist Reagan would be a moderate among the Democrats right now as things have swung so far... The environment used to be a Republican issue. Fighting against corruption used to be a Republican issue. Standing up for unions used to be common among Republicans... How did we get here?
Is this like supporting Hitler, but asking him not to kill people?
Vote Democrat.
Both parties, but especially the GOP, are in the grip of the fossil fuel industry. Except for the obstructionism of the fossil fuel industry, including outright bribery of legislators, we could have adopted a clean energy strategy by now.
My car in 1980 averaged 36 mpg driving to work. After that we started building SUVs like nobody's business. The corporate average mpg dropped. This was due to oil industry influence.
Get the influence of money out of politics. Sign every petition you can find to overturn Citizens United, call your representatives, tell them you want publicly financed elections. Never relent. We must regain control of the nation.
Vote Obama Laura, or face war-mongering, Nature-hating, sexist, racist, short-termist, corrupt thugs for 4 boring years + sequal..
cheers!
It's been awhile since hearing about a rational republican that it becomes almost possible to forget they exist. There are plenty of other republicans like her. They are not represented in politics as only the radical and (dare I say idiotic?) extremists are in power.
If only the representatives actually represented their people.
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