Robert Redford joined members of Congress--lead by Congressmen Baird (D-WA),Hinchey (D-NY),and Holt (D-NJ)--and a coalition of environmental,preservation and business groups to stop the auctions.Fridayà ‚¬ „ s sale would include lands that were recently made available to industry through hastily approved resource management plans that will have serious ramifications for public lands. |
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)