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Advisory Ballot Question on the Global Warming Crisis
Saturday March 29, @11:10PM, by John Andrews, Jill Stein
Subject : Advisory Ballot Question
from the Platform dept.
Summary :
: This proposal concerns ballot advisory question initiative that was endorsed by State Committee at its January meeting. This provides a more specific endorsement of a particular topic and focus for one of the supported ballot questions dealing with global warming. The current (draft) text being considered by the Platform Committee reads substantially as follows:

Shall the representative from this district be instructed to vote in favor of legislation that:

1) redirects taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuel energy, road and airport construction, and other carbon-intensive development, to an urgent carbon-reducing community-based green-jobs initiative, creating jobs in energy conservation and efficiency, non-nuclear local clean energy generation, recycling, and local sustainable food production; and

2) phases out existing fossil fuel based power generation facilities in Massachusetts, beginning with the closure of coal-fed power plants, with a goal of 80% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2020?

Text :
The Green-Rainbow Party endorses and supports efforts to place before the voters an advisory ballot question calling for a secure green future initiative and for the phased closure of coal-fueled power facilities, and a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by a specified year.
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