Here's the letter I wrote to Senator Burr today, and I sent similar letters to Congressmen Hagan and Shuler:
Dear Senator Burr,
I appreciate your reply. From the sound of this letter, there is a lot being done to investigate blame and hold the appropriate parties responsible, and I see how important this is to the whole process, however people and animals are down there in the Gulf being exposed to dangerous, toxic chemicals and environmental situations right now. I have been down there, right on the waterline for three weeks now, since June 1, working with individuals and volunteers to try to help local people get organized and mobilized. People are out of work, mentally and emotionally strained beyond the point of coping in many cases. Babies, children and pregnant mothers are possibly being exposed to very harmful toxins in the rain and the air they breathe, in the groundwater and almost certainly in sand and water at the beaches some of them are STILL playing and swimming in. Animals are dying, people's homes and land are being consumed and ruined forever and you assure me that "From here, we must work hard to stop the spill and to ensure that such a situation does not occur in any of our other offshore production areas."
Does this mean that you intend to continue to support offshore drilling as well as apparently turn a blind eye to the desperate human and environmental need there now? It has become more important now than ever for the American public to be sure where our representatives stand on the subject of disaster and the cost of human lives and our environment, and easier than ever to inform and motivate others to make a necessary change.
I implore you to please consider the immediate health and safety aspects of the disaster that your fellow citizens are living through right now and do whatever you can to help them. Please do whatever you can to support evacuation plans. I am one of many people who live and vote here who have many family members and friends living near and on the Gulf of Mexico, with children, elderly family members and pets to consider as well. We are all responsible, but you have more power than we do. Please use it to help these people. I look forward to your reply,
- Sam Lovelace
http://www.yourcongressyou
Dear Senator Burr,
I appreciate your reply. From the sound of this letter, there is a lot being done to investigate blame and hold the appropriate parties responsible, and I see how important this is to the whole process, however people and animals are down there in the Gulf being exposed to dangerous, toxic chemicals and environmental situations right now. I have been down there, right on the waterline for three weeks now, since June 1, working with individuals and volunteers to try to help local people get organized and mobilized. People are out of work, mentally and emotionally strained beyond the point of coping in many cases. Babies, children and pregnant mothers are possibly being exposed to very harmful toxins in the rain and the air they breathe, in the groundwater and almost certainly in sand and water at the beaches some of them are STILL playing and swimming in. Animals are dying, people's homes and land are being consumed and ruined forever and you assure me that "From here, we must work hard to stop the spill and to ensure that such a situation does not occur in any of our other offshore production areas."
Does this mean that you intend to continue to support offshore drilling as well as apparently turn a blind eye to the desperate human and environmental need there now? It has become more important now than ever for the American public to be sure where our representatives stand on the subject of disaster and the cost of human lives and our environment, and easier than ever to inform and motivate others to make a necessary change.
I implore you to please consider the immediate health and safety aspects of the disaster that your fellow citizens are living through right now and do whatever you can to help them. Please do whatever you can to support evacuation plans. I am one of many people who live and vote here who have many family members and friends living near and on the Gulf of Mexico, with children, elderly family members and pets to consider as well. We are all responsible, but you have more power than we do. Please use it to help these people. I look forward to your reply,
- Sam Lovelace
http://www.yourcongressyou
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