--- Brett Hulsey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Subject: Next week Bush plan rollout
>BUSH WILL BE IN Nevada, Ia Wed or Thursday to
highlight alternative sources of energy
>
> Dear friends:
>
>
> Next week Bush and Cheney will be rolling out the
> Bush Energy Plan in a
> series of public events at "green" energy facilities
> in order to soft sell
> their radical plan.  We need to counter this with
> our own press work, ads,
> rallies etc. so they do not frame the debate.  We
> need the public to learn
> that "the Bush Plan doesn't work.  It makes the
> wrong choice.  We need a
> balanced approach which gives quicker, cleaner,
> cheaper, safer solutions."
>
> Bush is cynically  staging his events as high tech,
> efficent, "green"
> energy production sites, while rolling out a plan
> that is mostly relying on
> more nukes, coal, and oil development.  He plans to
> be in MN, IA (5/17) and
> PA (5/18) next Thursday and Friday.  We believe
> Cheney will be doing the
> same thing in Denver,CO and Pittsburg, PA, but don't
> have firm details.
>
> So, we need to frame the debate before they arrive
> and then spin the press
> corps the day of the White House events.
>
> Here's plan we plan to roll out.
>
> For day before White House event and day of event
> run TV ads on Bush Energy
> Plan.  On day of event run full page newspaper ads
> in local major paper.
>
> The day before the event hold press event of our own
> around an alternative
> "dirty" plant (such as Three Mile Island in PA or an
> existing polluting
> refinery in St Paul)  to highlight the problems with
> the "real" Bush plan
> and to innoculate the press about how the staged
> White House event the
> following day is a sham.   Then the day of the WH
> event do a counter event
> with citizens and victims and a broad coalition to
> denounce the Bush Plan
> and to promote our "quicker, cleaner, cheaper,
> safer"  alternative plan.
> We will do paid phone banking to Club volunteers to
> help turn out a crowd.
> Local chapter and field staff and EPEC staff need to
> work in coalition to
> plan and stage the events. (Participation by Chapter
> staff needs to be
> worked out with the Chapter.)
>
> These will be the big regional events around the
> Bush and Cheney
> appearances.  In addition, we will be doing smaller
> press efforts and local
> events in all regional markets with EPEC and field
> staff.  We'll also be
> working national press.
>
> Hopefully, if we do this right, Bush will not get a
> bounce by fooling the
> American people, and instead he'll get exposed as a
> charlatan photo op
> conservationist.
>
> Throughout all this we still want to stick to our
> talking points and to
> avoid shrillness or personal attacks.  We want to
> expose the "dishonesty"
> of an approach that attempts to shine the spotlight
> on green power, while
> the details of the plan overwhelmingly promote dirty
> power.
>
> We'll be talking about this on the 5/15 WAR call
> with field staff, and the
> 5/15 WOE CC call as well.
>
> We'll also be refining plans on Monday 5/14
> Conservation managers call.
>
> Debbie Sease has sent out a "to do" list from our
> last call with
> assignments.  If anyone can't get their assignment
> done, contact Debbie or
> me.
>
> When we have more time, we want to pursue staging
> events at infamous energy
> pollution sites (Santa Barbara, existing nukes,
> Valdez, any notorious coal
> plant, leaking refineries etc. to again remind the
> public that this is the
> same failed old energy plan that Bush is really
> promoting.  If any of these
> can happen next week, great, if not, let's try to
> roll them out over the
> next month.
>
> OVAS is working up banners, buttons etc to help with
> events.  Media is
> working up fact sheets with the energy team.  You
> already all have talking
> points.  We will be developing some new graphics to
> highlight the gross
> "imbalance" of nukes, coal, fossil fuels, vs. clean
> green alternatives and
> efficiency.  These will be in our newspaper ads next
> week and then
> available to you for local use as graphics at press
> conferences etc.
>
> We have a huge opportunity before us.   Let's go for
> it!!!!
>
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