Kerry Green Brigade Barnstorms NH

[sandnsea]

I am writing this from the Dover John Kerry HQ in the middle of a very successful Green Brigade environmental barnstorming tour of New Hampshire led by Robert Kennedy Jr., Congressman Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, Teresa Heinz Kerry and a host of environmental activists from NH, Massachusetts and Washington DC.

We began the day in Boston where John’s brother Cam Kerry hosted a fundraiser for the Boston-area environmental community. Bobby Kennedy, Vanessa Kerry, Andre Heinz and Congressman Blumenauer lit the fires for the day with passionate statements on why a change in national leadership is imperative and why John Kerry is the man to lead that change – 96% League of Conservation voting record in 19 years in the Senate, leadership on ANWR, CAFÉ standards, climate change, renewable energy and much, much more.

The brigade caravanned to Concord, NH and we are now mid day in a series of house parties, student and faculty meetings, and phone banking all targeted to environmental activists and NH voters who have identified the environment as their first priority issue. Bob Sussman, #2 at EPA in the first Clinton administration and Ken Berlin, Chairman of the Board of the Environmental Law Institute, are joining Teresa Heinz Kerry at Dartmouth College. Congressman Blumenauer and Tony Cortese, former Mass DEP Commissioner, are headed to Daniel Webster College in Nashua. And Bobby Kennedy Jr. has been extremely effective in speeches before some of the leading NH environmental organization heads and environmental educators at UNH. We were joined there by UNH Professor Barry Rock, one of the country’s foremost climatologists and an active, committed John Kerry supporter.

The crowds have been strong and the reception very positive at every stop. This race is very fluid is the feel one has after a few hours on the ground and without question when people learn of John Kerry’s ideas and three decade track record on environmental issues they are signing onto the effort.

It’s been a fun day for me to reconnect with a number of old friends with whom I worked when I was head of EPA’s New England office in the Clinton administration. For Bobby Kennedy and others of us it has been great to meet so many good people fighting the good environmental fight at the State House in Concord and in their own communities.

In many ways one of the nicest aspects of the day has been to meet some of the many young people who are working for John in New Hampshire. More than a dozen have been involved on this trip alone and to a person they are bright, friendly, highly capable and in good cheer. They should be tired and run down by now but their enthusiasm for the adventure and their belief in John Kerry is clearly inspiring them to go the extra mile. And from them all of us have gained inspiration as well.

Time to head off to a house party at the home of former Democratic Congressional candidate Martha Fuller Clark on the next stop in a fun and rewarding day.

John DeVillars
Boston, Ma.

http://blog.johnkerry.com/blog/archives/000887.html#more

[phirili]

1. Keep up the good work

[La_Serpiente]

2. Yeah

Keep up the good work :toast: :hi:

[imhotep]

3. the only positive about Kerry

I respect his environment record.

[Octafish]

4. Too bad you missed the rest of his government service.

As a Massachusetts state attorney general, John Kerry busted the Mafia's number 2 in New England. Not bad, as at the time the Mafia was in bed with the FBI in Boston.

As a US Senator, John Kerry busted the BCCI, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, used by money laungerers, gun merchants, drug dealers, international terrorists, the CIA and the KGB. Not bad, as the bank was protected by Poppy Bush's DCI Robert Gates, who called it the "Bank of Crooks and Criminals International."

During Iran-Contra, Sen. Kerry busted Ollie North and his organization in Central America for running drugs into the USA. Not bad, as North and his network were protected by the Reagan-Bush Whtie House, who ignored the testimony of DEA Agent Castillo Celerino III who testified in Congress, who covered things up for Reagan-Bush.

Oh yeah. Then there's Kerry the Liberal Democrat. He's received top ratings from environmental organizations, small business organizations, union and organized labor, public educaiton organizations and on and on. Too bad you hadn't heard about all that, imhotep.

[blm]

5. The answers for national security are linked to environmental progress.

Kerry links the need for alternative energy as part of our national security concerns, because we shouldn't be sacrificing our resources and lives for our addiction to oil. We'd save money on military expenditures in terms of dollars and lives, not to mention the benefits to the health of the planet. Kerry already HAS the science on this and KNOWS it and can hit the ground running on day one, with Bobby Kennedy at his side heading the EPA or Dept, of Interior.

[sandnsea]

6. Social issues???

Advocating GLBT rights since the 80's? Writing domestic violence legislation? The Nurse Reinvestment Act? SCHIP? Early Learning Opportunities Act?

Or international issues. Legislation to stop selling arms to 3rd world countries? Legislation to prevent money laundering? Engagement with Vietnam to get the remains of our POW/MIA's? Normalization of relations with Vietnam?

Yeah, just the environment. :eyes:

[OneBlueSky]

7. Kerry's environmental record is one of the reasons . . .

I decided to support him for the Democratic nomination . . . it took awhile for me to get past the IWR vote, but I firmly believe that his long record on environmental and other progressive issues more than offsets this one mistake . . . keep up the good work in New Hampshire, and good luck . . . I think John is going to do a lot better than the polls up there are predicting . . .

[blm]

10. Gary Hart said the same thing you did in your post.

.

[oasis]

8. Our environment will be in good hands with John Kerry at the helm.

[Octafish]

9. RFK Jr could head EPA ...

... right out of the gate or he could head the Interior Department, depending on where he's needed most.

[adadem]

11. John Kerry would make

such a wonderful president. He stands far and above all the other candidates in experience and vision for the future of our country.

I remember after Gore decided not to run and John Kerry was the first alternative candidate that came to my mind.

I just don't understand what is going through the minds of others when they compare other candidates to Senator Kerry.

I would think that after the last 3 years every Democrat, Independent and other American citizen would want to have a president that we can be trust and be proud of.