Many rail against Stevens, ANWR

[CornField]

http://www.adn.com/money/story/7293671p-7205364c.html

Opponents of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge are rallying to keep the controversy off the defense spending bill -- and hoping the strategy of wedding ANWR and military funding backfires on Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens.


"This is one of the most unpatriotic acts ever attempted by an elected official -- tantamount to treason," said Brian Moore, legislative director for the Alaska Wilderness League. "It's Ted Stevens denying the troops food, funding, ammunition -- everything they need."

Stevens, R-Alaska, announced this week that he is trying to push ANWR through Congress by attaching it to the defense appropriations bill. He is a key negotiator on two of the last bills Congress is likely to pass this year -- defense spending and the five-year budget -- and he is doing all he can to hold them up until he gets ANWR passed on at least one of them.

His tactic of forcing lawmakers to vote for ANWR to get military spending has outraged more than environmentalists. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., called Stevens' effort "disgusting" and couldn't say how he'd vote on the combined bill.

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[rodeodance]

1. Call your Congressperson NOW--it is NOT too late--leave a message

or whatever--but Do it. please.

[KamaAina]

2. Bear in mind that caribou and reindeer are the same animal

and thus it is arch-repuke Stevens who is conducting the true "War on Christmas" by threatening America's prime reindeer habitat!

Who will tell all the innocent little children?