[DK GreenRoots] Re: Time for serious discussion / push back

In all seriousness, I would hope every single person on this list sees it as valuable to add their voice on this.

A good 10 from this list have commented ... but that is far from even a majority ...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/31/1183638/-Daily-Kos-s-candidate-endorsement-questionnaire-2013-14

I added:

Rereading (3+ / 0-)

creates even more disgust:

handful of issues of key importance to the Daily Kos community

The climate cliff is just a minor niche issue of only minor interest to a inconsequential segment of the Daily Kos community ...

And, well, equality in marriage is included to "to send a statement about our values" but, well, there aren't any values at stake when it comes to Climate Change.

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http://www.dailykos.com/comments/1183638/49251784 .

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 5:51 PM, siegead <siegead@gmail.com> wrote:

Yet again, the Dailykos candidate questionaire makes environmental issues an 'oh by the way'.  I cannot imagine how anyone on this list can donate a penny via a path that tells candidates that energy/environmental issues are not Tier 1 items.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/31/1183638/-Daily-Kos-s-candidate-endorsement-questionnaire-2013-14

Linda's comment:  http://www.dailykos.com/comments/1183638/49249518#c7

amazing..President Obama has climate change (2+ / 0-)

listed on his top 5 agenda, but DK does not see as important issue for candidates? First Nation communities in Canada are getting sick and dying for years now from tar sands....and now 53 senators support XL pipeline. no problem. NIMBY. fossil fuels are sickening and killing thousands in US each year. but not an important issue for DK.

We are accustomed to all-but-three fp'ers ignoring our climate change and environmental blogathons .... even when we have top Democrat to ever post at DK, Former Vice-President Al Gore, or top environmental leaders, like Van Jones.

BUT to leave out climate change in your  -- that is, OUR -- candidates' questionnaire? Does everyone here got some secret plan to address the #1 issue facing people, wildlife and natural resources...ahem our planet...that we don't know about?

So you downgrade environmental issues to something to "take into consideration?"

For instance, if a given candidate answered our questions with flying colors but has a bad record on, say, environmental issues or reproductive freedom, that is something we would most definitely take into consideration.

Mine:  http://www.dailykos.com/comments/1183638/49249555#c12

Have to say ... (0+ / 0-)

that I cannot donate via this path -- again -- since climate change, other environmental issues, and energy do not appear here in anyway, shape, or form.

No, it is not acceptable that these remain 'oh by the way' topics.  These are core and by not even bothering to ask about them, you are telling prospective candidates that these issues are secondary/don't matter.

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