Get Maggie Kain on the ballot
Peter Nightingale
I just pledged to help get Maggie Kain on the ballot this year. Maggie will need 100 signatures, which is going to be hard this year.
I believe that we deserve a choice in who our elected representatives are. There should never be only one name on the ballot to choose from. Will you please pledge to sign so that we can have a choice about who represents us this year?
Sign here: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/voters-deserve-a-choice-in-september-help-get-us-on-the-ballot-12
As you know, helping to get somebody on the ballot is not an
endorsement of this candidate. However that may be, I'm happy that
Maggie Kain is taking on Senator Sue Sosnowski, who chairs the RI
Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee. In a meeting last
week, that committee unanimously approved the nominations of Nic
Ucci and Ron Gerwatowski for important administrative energy
positions.
Unfortunately, listening to the hearing on the Capitol Web, it
became painfully clear to me that this committee was completely
unaware of the October 2018 Special report of the IPCC. The report
states that, "Limiting global warming to 1.5°C would require
rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of
society."
In my view, RI leadership is years behind the IPCC and if that
isn't bad enough, according
to Jim Hansen, (see page 4) "the IPCC (Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change), almost by its nature, tends to be 5-10
years behind state-of-the-art understanding."
Follow
this link for further information.
I've spoken to Maggie and I know where she stands; I stand with
her.
Thanks!
—Peter
The next auto-quote (sent by free-ware from my commercial-free computer) is:
There were experiments, hopes, new beginnings. Then came the buildup in Vietnam, and I watched this program broken and eviscerated, as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war, and I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So, I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.
(Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence)
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Peter Nightingale
Department of Physics, East Hall
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881, USA
Telephone 401.874.5882; Fax 401.874.2380