Letters
to Legislators
Senate and House Committees on Intelligence report fails miserably: They should read The War on Freedom -- How and Why America Was Attacked on 9\11.
A Letter to Mayor Jim Torrey: The 50,000 who showed up in Seattle represented many hundreds of thousands more.
"Terminator Technology" violates farmers' rights: The USDA should not even consider licensing it.
Vote against HB-3541 and FOR the Minority Report: Don't prohibit Oregon from reducing greenhouse gas emissions; do establish a task force to study what steps Oregon can take to decrease them.
Vote against S. 882: The 'Energy & Climate Policy Act of 1999' purports to ameliorate global warming, but will do nothing to create significant or immediate reduction in the pollution causing it.
Please veto HB 2652: It would forbid the DEQ from requiring water pollution control permits for discharges of return flows from irrigated agriculture, agricultural storm water, or herbicide applications to irrigation waters.
Support HB 2805: Protect citizens engaged in public process from frivolous lawsuits -- otherwise known as "Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation" or SLAPP suits.
Support HB 3602: Put forward by the Oregon Pesticide Education Network, this is a strong pesticide right-to-know bill.Billions and billions for new and more lethal war toys: ... but next to nothing for health, education, welfare, and environmental protection and clean-up.
Vote NO on SB 1187: It ignores urban and rural sprawl, and would open up 750,000 acres (1,170 square miles) of rural land for urban development.
Vote Against HB-2431-4: This bill is aimed at overturning Eugene's Toxic Law, which was voted in by Eugene voters, and which the legislature should leave alone as a matter of home rule.
©Wanda Ballentine