Green in more ways than one
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Regarding your story "Green and Mean": While there
was some benefit from the level of anti-Pombo ads that Defenders of
Wildlife ran in 2006, they take far too much credit (HCN,
5/26/08). As an activist in that race, I can cite mistake
after mistake that Defenders made, generally in playing fast and
loose with the truth in their advertisements. The result was that
they almost made Pombo into a sympathetic figure, and that takes a
lot.
Not mentioned in this story are the efforts of organizations like the Clean Water Action Project, which organized a voter registration drive that signed up a significant number of new voters in the 11th Congressional District, including many Hispanics. That contribution was enough that the California director of Clean Water Action, Erich Pfuehler, then assumed the job as Jerry McNerney's chief of staff.
While I fully agree with the tactic, the Defenders' execution of it, especially in the Pombo case, was decidedly amateur.
Wesley C. Rolley Morgan Hill, California
Not mentioned in this story are the efforts of organizations like the Clean Water Action Project, which organized a voter registration drive that signed up a significant number of new voters in the 11th Congressional District, including many Hispanics. That contribution was enough that the California director of Clean Water Action, Erich Pfuehler, then assumed the job as Jerry McNerney's chief of staff.
While I fully agree with the tactic, the Defenders' execution of it, especially in the Pombo case, was decidedly amateur.
Wesley C. Rolley Morgan Hill, California
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