McCain coming to Santa Barbara to talk about the Environment. ROFLMAO.

[Hekate]

Apparently he's here tonight for a big fundraiser (we do have some rich Repubs) and then tomorrow morning he's going to host an Environmental Roundtable at the Natural History Museum. The joke is that Santa Barbara, site of the disastrous 1969 oil spill from Platform Holly, is no friend to offshore drilling.

I have now gotten this message 4 times, and have sent it on to my own lists. At considerable sacrifice (you all know me from my midnight and wee-hours postings) I plan to get up at 6 a.m. so I can be there. I'll try to let you know how it turns out.

Hekate

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One of the emails I got this morning-->

Calling All Environmentalists

Please join the Santa Barbara chapter of the League of Conservation Voters in protesting John McCain's support for oil drilling off California's coast.

On Tuesday, June 24th, at 8 am (doors open at 7:30 am, meeting starts at 9 am), we will be "welcoming" Senator McCain to Santa Barbara as he hosts an Environmental Roundtable. With McCain's horrible record on the environment and his recent support for offshore oil drilling off our pristine coastline, it is ironic that he would come here to the birthplace of the modern environmental movement to talk about the environment. Let's send him (and the national media travelling with him) a loud and clear message that his anti-environmental policies are out of touch and harmful to the California coastline.

Please join us:
PROTEST SENATOR MCCAIN's SUPPORT FOR OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING (outside his environmental roundtable meeting)
TUESDAY, June 24th
8 am (or earlier)
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
2559 Puesta Del Sol.
Please show up with signs, placards and other displays to show your support for the environment. Bring friends.

Thanks for your support,

Tim Allison
Chair, Santa Barbara County League of Conservation Voters

[LSparkle]

1. OMFG! Maybe he can take a walk on the beach and get oil on his feet

I hear that STILL HAPPENS even though the last oil spill in the
channel was at least 10 YEARS AGO ...

[Hekate]

4. Sadly, tar on the beach is from natural oil seeps and we have to live with that, so I've been told.

Hubby and I have special beach-walking shoes that never enter the house. People love to swim and surf here, but you do get kind of speckled. Fortunately baby oil seems to get it off.

That said, natural oil seeps are one thing. Offshore drilling is another.

Hekate

[BlueJazz]

2. ..and I hear he's also going to talk about the intricacies of Quantum Mechanics.

That should be enlightening...

[XOKCowboy]

3. Oh that sounds like fun...

I hope that the police don't overreact and things go loudly and peacefully.

[Hekate]

6. Our local cops have been very good neighbors to protestors over the past 8 years...

The bicycle patrol gets assigned to our street protests -- and they are very buff in their summer shorts, let me tell you. :evilgrin:

The biggest hazard will be finding parking -- or if the SS decides ordinary onery citizens shouldn't have access and cordons off the area. We shall see. Even on such short notice we should have a pretty good turnout.

Hekate

[rucky]

5. Attention Californians: John McCain thinks you're stupid.

and he's touring your state to sell you his offshore drilling plan.

[havocmom]

7. Off shore drilling should go over well there!

:rofl:

[Contrary1]

8. Will you be there with your camera?

[Hekate]

9. I wish! If some of my cohorts post pix I will post links. nt

[Hekate]

10. Links to news reports & some pix. I was sick and couldn't go, but at least 100 did

By all accounts it was the biggest protest that McCain has experienced so far. Way to go, Santa Barbarians! Many happy returns of the day, McBush!

Sorry I don't have more. The SB Independent is sure to, but every time I log on to their site it shuts down my browser. Hope you have better luck.

Hekate

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http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/06/24/mccain-faces-protesters-in-santa-barbara/

McCain Faces Protestors in Santa Barbara

About 100 mostly environmental protesters demonstrated outside the McCain-Schwarzenegger event this morning at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History–one of the largest demonstrations the presumptive GOP nominee has faced on the campaign trail.

Holding anti-drilling and anti-Bush/McCain signs, including some with photos of the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, the protesters intermittently broke into chants like “offshore no more” and “no new drilling.” There were also a few anti-war and pro-choice signs sprinkled in the crowd.

Some notable signs:
McBush: You drill, we lose. We Vote, you lose.
No pumps for chumps
McCain+Bush=Failed Energy Policy

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http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/24/1163752.aspx

Santa Barbara, not the best choice
Posted: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:23 AM by Domenico Montanaro
Filed Under: 2008, McCain

From NBC's Chuck Todd and Domenico Montanaro
Just days after McCain advocated lifting the moratorium on off-shore oil driling, the campaign chose to hold an environmental event -- an "Environmental Briefing with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger" -- in Santa Barbara, Calif. Why was Santa Barbara a poor choice? Well...

VIDEO: MSNBC's Contessa Brewer talks with John McCain's domestic policy advisor Nancy Pfotenhauer about the presumptive Republican presidential candidate's support of President Bush's call to lift the ban on offshore oil and gas drilling.

Per the LA Times: "In the winter of 1969, 3 million gallons of oil began leaking from an offshore drilling site off the Santa Barbara coast. It would eventually be contained, but the incident helped spark landmark environmental legislation to protect the nation's waters and air."

Just Monday, NPR wrote, "As the presidential hopefuls debate the pros and cons of offshore drilling, natives of Santa Barbara, California remember the huge spill of 1969. Many say that disaster was the catalyst for the U.S. environmental movement."

The Santa Barbara County League of Conservation Voters is planning a protest of McCain's event today.

For some background, per the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network and the University of California-Santa Barbara, "On the afternoon of January 29, 1969, an environmental nightmare began in Santa Barbara, California. A Union Oil Co. platform stationed six miles off the coast of Summerland suffered a blowout. ........ The expanding mass created five breaks in an east-west fault on the ocean floor, releasing oil and gas from deep beneath the earth. ....For eleven days, oil workers struggled to cap the rupture. ....
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[Supersedeas]

11. and watch as the Free Ride Media jumps aboard the propoganda Express

[PlanetBev]

12. Thousand Oaks screaming with laughter

McBush talking about the environment?

Get out there Santa Barbara, and put a hurt on him.