Your postcards delivered to Sen. Hagan
Since the beginning of September, the NC Conservation Network staff, our allied organizations and 67 concerned citizens have been collecting postcards to Sen. Kay Hagan. The postcards call on Senator Hagan to ask her to support legislation that:
- puts North Carolinians back to work by creating thousands of new green jobs;
- takes strong action to reduce global warming pollution; and
- continues NC's transition to a clean energy economy by investing in renewable energy.
Yesterday myself, fellow 1Sky NC Organizer Chris Gianino, along with John Bonitz (with Southern Alliance for Clean Energy) walked over to Sen. Hagan's Raleigh office and delivered 1,696 of these postcards! This brings our total postcards delivered to date to 2,196 with more coming in each day!
The picture is of Sen. Hagan's staffer Patrick Ayers who was a good sport about receiving the huge stack which he will now have to enter.
While we were there we had a good meeting with Sen. Hagan's Deputy State Director, Tony Caravano. We covered a lot of ground, Chris talked about his travels across the state where he worked with a lot of you to make phone calls and collect postcards. John talked about his work with North Carolina's farmers and woodland owners and the economic benefits that are available to help boost our rural economies. We really appreciated Mr. Caravano's time and we came away from the meeting knowing that while we make slow progress towards a climate bill, Senator Hagan is aware that strong clean energy and climate legislation will greatly benefit North Carolina’s economy.
We all have to continue make sure that our elected officials, our friends & family, and the media knows that there are economic benefits to federal climate and energy policies. We also all have to continue our emails, calls, and face-to-face meetings with members of North Carolina's Congressional delegation as the fight for strong energy reform that addresses climate change moves into 2010.
