The League of Conservation Voters' (LCV) Environmental Victory Project has launched the largest single-state media campaign in the history of environmental activism. The $3 million two week television campaign focuses on the Bush-Cheney links to Big Oil, their support of drilling off Florida's coast, their gift of no-bid contracts to Halliburton and their clear favoritism towards corporate polluters. The campaign is part of LCV's largest-ever presidential campaign effort, which is targeting swing voters in five battleground states. Said LCV president Deb Callahan, "We're launching this massive blitz because Floridians need to be clear about the Bush-Cheney record when they go to the polls in two weeks," Ms. Callahan said. "The stakes are high for our environment and for our country. We believe that this election is coming down to who wins Florida — and we intend to make sure it is John Kerry."
LCV notes that in 2001, President Bush supported a plan to allow drilling a mere 30 miles from Pensacola — but this election year he has tried to hide the truth and tell voters of Florida a different story. The Bush-Cheney administration policy has funneled billions in no-bid contracts to Halliburton and pushed policies that would give Big Oil billions more in subsidies while exempting them from cleaning up their pollution.
"Offshore drilling is a threat to the beauty of Florida beaches, a threat to tourism and a threat to the state's precious coastal environments and wildlife. Combined with the fact that George Bush and Dick Cheney have given big oil outrageous subsidies and a free pass on cleaning up their messes, Floridians can understand why Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney are two of our national 'Dirty Dozen,'" said Ms. Callahan.
The Environmental Victory Project is a combined campaign led by the League of Conservation Voters, with the support of the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund and Friends of the Earth Action. LCV's Florida campaign is headquartered in Orlando and includes 27 staff and over 750 volunteers. LCV has knocked on over 145,000 doors in key swing precincts in Orange, Seminole, Lake and Osceola counties.
The Environmental Victory Project is also running campaigns in New Mexico, Oregon, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, contacting a total of more than 700,000 swing households and mobilizing more than 12,000 volunteers to date. The goal of the campaign is to knock on 1.2 million doors by Election Day. LCV has also run television ads in New Mexico and Wisconsin.
Go to LCV's website to view the new ad, titled "Record".
The nonprofit League of Conservation Voters (LCV) is the political voice of the national environmental and conservation community. LCV, which is not a partisan organization, is the only national organization working full-time to hold Congress and the president accountable for their environmental actions. This year LCV is launching the Environmental Victory Project, its largest effort ever in the presidential campaign, due to the unprecedented assault on the environment by the Bush Administration. For more information on the Environmental Victory Project, please visit us on the web at http://www.envirovictory.org. This is paid for by LCV Action Fund. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.
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