The lobbing training that I went to stressed getting involved in campaigns and be seen. Well on Monday I am going to work for the Lamont campaign, for those of you who are not from Connecticut, Lamont is running against Senator Lieberman for the U.S. Senate seat.
The top three reasons I chose to help Lamont instead of Lieberman are;
1. Lieberman strong position on the war in Iraq, Lieberman in my opinion is so far to the right he makes the President seem like a Left Winger.
2. Lieberman stand on the environment, he voted for the Republican energy bill (The one where the Vice President negotiated with the energy lobbies in secret.) which took away the states control of where energy facilities can be located in a state and turned them over to the federal government. As a result we are getting a natural gas plant right in the middle of Long Island Sound. The bill also increases energy conservation funding at the expense of other energy alternative programs that were cut.
3. Lieberman wants to regulate television and video game content, I do not believe that the Federal government should set the standard that it should be up to the individual to decide what the want to see or hear. Are we going back to the days of George Carlin’s “Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television" that the Supreme Court ruled were not obscene?
So for those three reasons I decided to go and work the phone banks for Ned Lamont’s campaign.
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