Subject: [big campaign] What's Your Excuse? 10 "Excuses" for Skipping Markup of the Clean Energy Jobs Bill
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Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 17:00:56 -0500
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For Immediate Release:
November 2, 2009

Contact: David Willett, 202-675-6698

What's Your Excuse?

Sierra Club Offers 10 "Excuses" for Skipping Markup of the Clean Energy
Jobs Bill

Washington, DC: As the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
prepares to begin marking up the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act,
the Republican members of the committee have indicated they will refuse to
show up for work and boycott the meetings.

The Sierra Club is distressed that these Senators are unwilling to sit down
and work on this important plan for less pollution, more jobs and greater
security.  We openly wondered what these Senators might be doing that is
more important than finishing work on this historic bill and so suggested
these Top Ten Possible Excuses for not showing up for work on the Clean
Energy Jobs bill:

10. They are hiding in the attic with balloon boy.
9. They are allergic to wind.
8. They had to prep for a conference denying climate science.
7. They got lost hiking the Appalachian Trail.
6. They were swimming, Scrooge McDuck-style, through swimming pools filled
with Big Oil and Coal money.
5. They had choir practice for the Chorus of No’s.
4. Rush told them not to go.
3. They had to hold up some more judicial nominees.
2. They actually oppose a Clean Energy Jobs bill that would put America
back in charge of its economic and energy future.
1. They had a pre-existing condition.

Sierra Club will be inviting readers to submit their own excuses for
missing work at
Speedbumps ,http://connect.sierraclub.org/Groups/Speed_Bumps
a new group in Sierra Club's online community Climate Crossroads focusing
obstructionist efforts to weaken the bill.
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David Willett
Deputy  Director of Communications
Sierra Club
(202) 675-6698 (w)
(202) 491-6919 (m)
[email-masked]
www.sierraclub.org
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