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The tragic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has raised a giant red flag about the environmental challenges we face as a nation -- and the disastrous consequences we risk when we fail to act as proper custodians of our planet.
As a longtime environmental advocate, I think it's great that more people are getting involved. But I place even more value on allies that have been there with us all along, long before cameras were rolling in the Gulf. Allies like Senator Barbara Boxer.
That's why I recently hosted a fundraising event for Barbara: to make sure her campaign has the resources to defeat Carly Fiorina this fall -- so Barbara can win re-election and keep fighting to protect the environment.
I'm proud to be supporting Barbara's campaign, and I hope you'll join me.
From day one, Barbara has been a champion for environmental protection in the U.S. Senate. Without her there to lead the fight, I fear that instead of learning the lessons of this moment and moving forward, we could find ourselves slipping backward.
Like Sarah Palin, Carly Fiorina is a strong supporter of "drill, baby, drill" -- even in the wake of the BP disaster in the Gulf. Fiorina opposes the commonsense efforts of Senator Boxer, Senator Feinstein, and their West Coast colleagues to extend a moratorium on new drilling off the Pacific coast.
Fiorina even opposes Barbara's fight to stop global climate change and create millions of clean energy jobs here in America -- dismissing these critical efforts as just being "worried about the weather."
The choice couldn't be clearer: We need to keep Barbara Boxer in the Senate.
It's up to all of us -- you and me and millions of other people -- to make sure we re-elect Barbara this November.
I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that happens, and I hope you'll join me.
Thank you so much.
Sincerely,
Robert Redford
