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Subject: David Bonior: A Champion for our Environment
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Dear Friend:
Knowing of your interest in the fight to protect our
environment, we would like to take this opportunity to share with you
information (please also see attachment and below) about David
Bonior -- the best gubernatorial choice for Michigan. The Michigan Sierra
Club, Clean Water Action, Humane USA and Friends of the Earth have
endorsed David for governor. He has a 30-year pro-environment record and,
as governor, he will bring an environmental ethic to Lansing to fight for
the issues we care about.
David Bonior understands that water is more valuable than
oil. David will never allow oil drilling in our Great Lakes. He will
block the diversion of our water to bottling plants and other states. And
David will work to increase resources for water treatment and sewer
infrastructure improvement to help prevent sewer overflows, improve our
drinking water and stop our beaches from closing.
David Bonior will increase funding for our state’s watershed
projects, and secure resources to rid our lakes, rivers, and streams from
dangerous levels of mercury, lead, arsenic and PCBs. He has taken the
Mercury pledge to reduce emissions 90% by 2010 and virtually eliminate
them by 2020. David has fought tirelessly and called upon the
Environmental Protection Agency to rid our canals, drains and lakes of
PCBs. It is time to make our waters swimmable, fishable and drinkable
again. David Bonior has the record and the commitment to make this happen
as governor.
David will do whatever it takes to stop out-of-state and
Canadian trash from entering Michigan. He will ban returnable bottles and
cans from our landfills and inspect trash trucks coming into our state
for hazardous waste.
As governor, David Bonior will reduce pollutants in our air
by cleaning up and modernizing our power plants and strictly enforcing
polluter pay laws. He will partner with environmental, university, and
business communities to develop environmentally friendly technologies to
save energy and clean up our environment. He will provide tax credits for
consumers and businesses that use alternative sources of energy.
As someone who cares passionately about green spaces, David
Bonior will fight to protect our forests and open spaces. Over his 30
years in public service, David has passed out more than one million trees
across the state of Michigan. As governor, he will end the
Engler-Posthumus DEQ. He will restore the prominence and morale of the
Department of Natural Resources to promote policies that favor
conservation, protection and restoration of our forests, farmland and
open space. David will slow sprawl by rebuilding our cities.
Michigan needs a leader like David Bonior. As a Member of
Congress, there has been no stronger a leader on environmental issues. As
governor, he will continue to fight to ensure that our state remains
beautiful for our children and grandchildren to inherit.
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David Bonior has been endorsed for Governor of
Michigan by:
· Michigan Sierra
Club
· Clean Water Action
· Friends of the Earth
· Humane USA
David Bonior:
“There is a difference in this race for Governor. I am the
only candidate with a 30-year pro-environment record. In
the 70's, when I served in the State Legislature, I cut my teeth on
environmental issues. Many don’t remember that I was the author of the
first-in-the-nation ban on PCBs and that I fought with activists to win
ballot approval of our bottle deposit law. When things looked bleak in
the first hundred days of the Gingrich Congress and they wanted to repeal
the Clean Water Act, I led the fight against them. For those efforts, I
earned the Sierra Club Mackinac Chapter’s “Legislator of the Year” award
and the 1996 “Environmental Watchdog of the Year” award from the Natural
Resources Defense Council.
In 1999, I prevented weapons-grade plutonium shipments from being
transported through St. Clair County and across the Blue Water Bridge,
and I also received a 100% voting record from the League of Conservation
Voters that year. And just this past year, I built a bipartisan coalition
to enact a ban on Great Lakes oil drilling and to reduce the amount of
arsenic in our drinking water. I have a record of environmental activism
that cannot be matched by any of the other candidates.
For me, I don’t just work on environmental issues when it’s
convenient or politically expedient, my wife Judy and I live our lives
with an environmental ethic that is waiting to be re-awoken in our state.
We have traveled to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge together, where
standing on the Achilik River with the mighty Brooks Range to one side
and the Arctic coastal plain to the other was one of the most humbling
experiences we have ever had. In 1997, Judy and I walked from our home in
Mt. Clemens to the Mackinac Bridge. Along the way, we couldn’t help but
think just how blessed we are in Michigan to have such a beautiful place
to live. I will be a governor that brings our environmental ethic
back.”
David Bonior and Alma Wheeler Smith will:
· Ban out-of-state and Canadian trash.
· Expand Michigan’s bottle bill.
· Stop water diversions and enact a water management plan.
· Implement real time monitoring of water quality and create a water
treatment construction loan pool.
· Increase resources for water treatment and sewer infrastructure
improvements.
· Strengthen and strictly enforce polluter pay laws.
· Promote policies that restore our forests, wetlands and public lands to
their natural beauty.
· Redirect resources away from building new roads and promoting sprawl,
to restoring existing
neighborhoods, redeveloping brownfields, investing in
transit, and creating urban parks.
· Make conservation the centerpiece of farm policy.
· Partner with our environmental leaders and our universities to develop
innovative technologies to
modernize our power plants, clean up pollution and save
energy.
· Provide tax credits for consumers who use alternative sources of energy
to power their homes, cars or
businesses.
· Promote the use of efficient and renewable energy sources by state
agencies.
· Protect our remaining old growth stands.
· Provide more conservation and land acquisition funding for forested
areas in our state.
· End the Engler-Posthumus DEQ. Restore our DNR to national
prominence by promoting policies that
favor conservation, protection and restoration of our
resources.
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Alex J. Sagady & Associates
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Environmental Enforcement, Technical Review, Public Policy and
Communications on Air, Water and Waste/Community Environmental
Protection
PO Box 39, East Lansing, MI 48826-0039
(517) 332-6971; (517) 332-8987 (fax); ajs@sagady.com
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