[Sustain] Marin Clean Energy: URGENT: Must Vote Today to Block End Run By PG&E

[Eric Brooks]

Hi all,

The deadline for this action is today.

The Marin Independent Journal is polling to see if there is support to 
force a countywide vote on Community Choice. A countywide vote would 
enable PG&E to do just what it did with Prop H in San Francisco, 
spending millions to kill clean energy through a ballot attack. The 
Journal will publish the poll results just before a Monday Marin County 
Supervisors vote on Community Choice in order to pressure them to accept 
a countywide vote.

Please take a second to go to http://www.marinij.com/index.html and vote 
*"NO" *to the "Daily Poll" question: /"Should there be a countywide vote 
on the clean energy proposal?"/

Then please pass this on to everyone you know who cares about clean energy.

peace

Eric

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From: *Michael Dietrick MD* <zena12 at earthlink.net 
<mailto:zena12 at earthlink.net>>
Date: Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:50 PM
Subject: Marin Clean Energy: Fwd: URGENT: Must Vote Today to Block End Run
To: Michael Dietrick MD <zena12 at earthlink.net <mailto:zena12 at earthlink.net>>



Good afternoon friends of Renewable Energy,

I'm forwarding this message from Sue Spofford of Sustainable San Rafael, 
asking for a moment of your time. Our local paper, the Independent 
Journal (IJ), is a frequent ally of PG&E, our current energy service 
provider. They've pulled a "two-fer" today, publishing a front page 
story promoting an absolutely unnecessary vote on our Marin Clean Energy 
Initiative, and running a non-scientific public opinion poll at the same 
time. As most of you are familiar with Marin Clean Energy, and allied 
with its clean energy mission, please consider taking a second, visiting 
the Website linked below, and vote "NO" on the question.

For your information, the new Marin Energy Authority has already been 
formed, and customers will have four opportunities to opt out and return 
to PG&E service if they choose to.

Thanks so much for your time.

Michael Dietrick

Begin forwarded message:

> *From: *Sue Spofford <suespof at comcast.net <mailto:suespof at comcast.net>>
> *Date: *December 13, 2008 1:31:33 PM PST
> *To: *Sue Spofford <suespof at comcast.net <mailto:suespof at comcast.net>>
> *Subject: **URGENT: Must Vote Today to Block End Run*
>
> Marin Clean Energy (MCE) Supporters:
>
> We need your help right now with a quick but important action:  Go 
> to _www.marinij.com_ <http://www.marinij.com/> and vote a 
> resounding *"NO" *to the "Daily Poll" question, /"Should there be a 
> countywide vote on the clean energy proposal?"/
>
>  
>
> You'll see the results being tabulated in real time (72 yes vs. 43 no, 
> the last we looked).  They'll be published in Sunday's paper, and 
> could provide a smokescreen for disrupting the MCE vote by the San 
> Rafael City Council on Monday.
>
>  
>
> With that critical vote pending, it looks to us like the IJ and PG&E 
> are attempting an end-run with the lead article in this morning's IJ 
> rehashing the notion of a countywide vote on MCE and inviting readers 
> to respond to the poll.
>
>  
>
> A few of the reasons why a countywide vote is such a bad idea:
>
>     * It would allow PG&E, the IJ and other unprogressive voices (and
>       their money) to dominate the discussion with sound-bite scare
>       tactics, drowning out the careful deliberative process conducted
>       by our elected officials with full public involvement for over a
>       year.
>
>     * It would cost taxpayers at least $1,000,000 to conduct the
>       vote—and MCE supporters untold amounts to counteract the
>       accompanying campaign of misinformation—at the worst possible
>       time for such wasteful spending.
>
>     * MCE already provides for individuals to "vote" on their own
>       participation in the program by staying with PG&E if they choose to.
>
> /We need to stop muddying the waters—and get on with clearing the air!/  
>
> Please go on line RIGHT NOW and vote "NO".
>
> Kiki and Sue
>



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