FYI,  Some good news from around the country.

 

JBK

 

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From: jeff tittel <jeff.tittel@sierraclub.org>
Date: Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 9:56 AM
Subject: RE: Election Night! Clean Sweep for the Climate. Hell YES!!!
To: Michael Bosse <michael.bosse@sierraclub.org>, Bruce Nilles <bruce.nilles@sierraclub.org>
Cc: #Coal <coal-list@sierraclub.org>, Cathy Duvall <cathy.duvall@sierraclub.org>, Melissa Williams <Melissa.Williams@sierraclub.org>, GAS-LEADERSHIP-TEAM@lists.sierraclub.org, Eric Huber <eric.huber@sierraclub.org>


In New Jersey  all incumbent Democratic Senators Won ,Christie went hard after 4 of our  Champions all won close races .Democrats maintain 24-16 lead and one of our strongest envronmetally assembly person was elevated to the Senate .In the Assembly Dems will lost 1 seat and he was bad on the environment , there are 2 races that are too close to call -they are strong enviro's that currently trailing but could still win based on provisional ballots. Assembly worse case 45 - 35 democrat.We passed a minimum wage ballot question 60%- 40 % and local open space referendums passed.On the governors race Christie Big win is not as big as media plays it about 500,000 democrats stayed home. Christie got only 5% more votes the 4 years ago and about the same number of votes as Corzine when he won in 2005 or McGreevey in 2001.He won mostly because , you have paid off the democratic bosses/ construction unions  to support you and you have week incompetent candidate that you outspend 20 to 1 not including $25 million in TV ads paid by government promoting you.
 
 
 
Jeff Tittel, Director
NJ Sierra Club
145 W Hanover St
Trenton, NJ 08618
 

From: Michael Bosse [mailto:michael.bosse@sierraclub.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 11:57 PM
To: Bruce Nilles
Cc: #Coal; Cathy Duvall; Melissa Williams; GAS-LEADERSHIP-TEAM@lists.sierraclub.org; Eric Huber
Subject: Re: Election Night! Clean Sweep for the Climate. Hell YES!!!

A solid assist from Gas in Colorado's Front range where we also invested and won 3 out of 4 fracking ballot initiatives.

Fort Collins and Boulder passed extensions to their fracking morotoriums, Lafayette Colorado amended its charter to ban fracking. In Bloomfield (small suburban area between Denver and Boulder) we are currently behind 49% to 51%.�
We were outspent in these races by about 90 to 1.�



On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Bruce Nilles <bruce.nilles@sierraclub.org> wrote:
We won the VA Gov's race against a climate denier, we won against Xcel who tried a ballot initiative to stop Boulder from seizing the grid so they could provide 100% clean energy, and we won all four county races in Whatcom County, the site of the massive coal export facility in NW Washington. �Coal took a drubbing from coast to coast. �So delicious.

"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender...."


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Sierra Club
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