Monday, January 27, 2003
Sorry, Joan
Lots of organizations want my money. Whether it’s the National Trust for Historic Preservation or the American Diabetes Association or the National Building Museum or a local NPR station, I imagine that they trade my name and address like little boys with baseball cards. I contribute to all of the above, and quite a few more, but others often appear in my mailbox unbidden. My demographic and/or contribution profile is such that the Republican Party (no link to them!) occasionally wastes a few of the giga-cents in their coffers by sending me some of their heinous propaganda. Every time I see one of those RNC envelopes, I breathe a little easier, comfortable in the knowledge that their software hasn’t yet figured out that they are not about to collect a penny from these here parts.
A couple of days ago it was the turn of Joan Claybrook, former chair of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Joan’s letter asked for my support in opposition to the Bush Administration’s energy policy. She rightly pointed to the need for improving auto fuel efficiency, reversing energy deregulation, controlling powerplant pollution, and promoting renewable energy. Joan alerted me to the tremendous influence of big-energy special interests, oil-bidness cronyism, self-serving Texas agenda, anti-environmental orientation, and other attributes of Dubya’s operation.
So why am I getting ready to toss Joan Claybrook’s letter into the recycling bin?
