Gmail - In the Cape Cod Times Today - jjbangert@gmail.com: "An advocate for the voiceless
By SARAH PEAKE
October 08, 2010 2:00 AM
My priority as your state representative has always been, and will continue to be, to fight for you. I will listen to you, learn from you, and then go to bat for you whenever and wherever that is necessary.
Sometimes that is right here on Cape Cod, like my fight to stop NStar from spraying harmful chemicals over our precious drinking water recharge areas. Sometimes those fights occur at national fisheries management meetings, like my fight to turn back efforts to change the lobster regulations for the Outer Cape, which would have cost most of our lobstermen thousands of dollars in lost income and would have put others out of business.
And, of course, many of those fights occur in Boston where I have fought to protect local aid for our towns, for Lyme disease treatment reform, to stop bullying in our schools, and to bring stability to municipal budgets by making it harder for the governor to cut regional school transportation budgets.
I have successfully worked to give us a seat at the table where decisions are made that affect our lives and livelihood. This leadership translates into keeping and growing jobs here on Cape Cod. As vice-chair of the Tourism Arts and Cultural Development Committee, I work everyday to keep our tourism and arts economic engines robust and vibrant; as vice-chair of the Regional Transportation Caucus and as a member of the Aviation Caucus, I protect our rural transportation needs and jobs at our airports; as the legislator representing Massachusetts on the Atlantic State Marine Fisheries Commission, I help create fishing policy and protect our fishermen's livelihood.
Perhaps most importantly, I advocate for those whose voices may not be heard: our veterans, our elderly, and those in need. I have helped thousands of constituents connect with government services to help make their lives better.
What's next? There are still many challenges. All one has to do is pick up this newspaper to understand that. Here are what some of my priorities will be:
* Rein in small business health care costs. We made some important steps this session to address this problem, but more must be done. I was successful in enacting legislation to allow small businesses to band together to negotiate and buy health insurance as a group because there is strength in numbers. Now we must get serious about reducing or eliminating the other causes of high premiums.
* Stop the escalating homeowners' insurance premiums. I will file three bills to establish 'standards' for the hurricane models to insure the data used is relevant to Cape Cod; limit wind deductibles to only named hurricanes; and allow for policy rebates for homeowners who take steps to 'hurricane proof' their homes.
* Get our economy back on track. I will continue to work with my colleagues from across the aisle and across the commonwealth to preserve valuable film and aviation tax credits and to find new areas of strategic investment. These investments are critical to growing the economy, increasing jobs and restoring revenue. This growth will enable us to help those who need a hand up and will allow us to look seriously at repealing taxes.
These are complex issues and my sleeves remain rolled up to continue to fight for you. There are those who offer 'sound-bite solutions.' I offer you my track record of hard work, proven accomplishments, and a fearlessness of tackling the difficult and thorny issues. Please visit www.sarahpeake.org to learn more.
I respectfully ask for your vote on Nov. 2, so I can keep fighting for you.
State Rep. Sarah Peake, D-Provincetown, represents the 4th Barnstable District in the Massachusetts House.
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Saturday, October 9, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Harwich Events Election 2010 Countdown
Here are the a few of the next event details:
Yes We Can! Phone Bank on Bank Street Beach
David & Pam Purdy's Home (Park at Bank Street Beach)
30 Bank Street
Harwichport, MA 02646
(508) 432-1522
Sunday, 10 Oct 2010, 12:15 PM
Stop the red tea bag tide of sliding backwards! Please come on Sunday at 12 Noon, and let's call for all four our candidates!
1. Bill Keating for US Congress!
2. Deval Patrick for Governor!
3. Dan Wolf for State Senate!
4. Sarah Peake for State Representative!
To invite people to sign up specifically for your event, send your invitees
this link:
RSVP: http://pol.moveon.org/event/takeoverparty/108976
Wednesday, October 13th at 6:30 pm
For"fun-night" of phone calls with your friends from Harwich at the Lower Cape Democratic Party Headquarters.
The Lower Cape Headquarters is right on route 6A, /193 Cranberry Highway next to the bowling alley and right off Exit 12.
We will be making calls on behalf of Governor Patrick, Bill Keating and others from our Democratic team, depending on how many of you can join us.
Please bring your address book and cell phone.
With one month to go to election day, your help is needed now more than ever.
Thanks again,
Ray Gottwald
(508) 430-1666
raygottwald@aol.com
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Phone Banking with Ed McManus and John Bangert
Harwich Progressives Cock & Bull Pub
41 Parallel St
Harwich Centre
6-9PM Bring Cell Phones & others
(508) 527-2607 Ed's Cell
(508) 514-0143 John's Cell
John J Bangert - Community Organizer
Cape Codders for Keating
http://capecoddersforkeating.blogspot.com
CapeCodDemocrat@gmail.com
(508) 514-0143
Jay O' Brien
Bill Keating for US Congress
Lower Cape Field Organizer
(617) 816-7625
job4338@gmail.com
Julian Cyr
Deval Patrick Campaign
Regional Field Organizers - Cape & Islands
julian@devalpatrick.com
(508) 360-6694
Seth Rolbein
Dan Wolf for Senate
Senior Adviser and Lower Cape Field Organizer
rolbrain@verizon.net
(508) 367-6044
Edward F. Atwood
Mid-Cape Field Organizer
Dan Wolf for Senate
edatwood@danwolfforsenate.com
(508) 292.0910
Kathy Ohman
Sarah Peake for State Rep
Campaign Manager/ Worker
ohmankathy@gmail.com
(508) 280 5426
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Not published by Corporate America’s weekly or daily newspapers!
In a recent letter Steven Cole suggested that Dan Wolf is, ‘an executive’ and that a senator could not be a representative if he or she was an executive. Any dictionary would tell Mr. Cole that executive means a person having administrative or supervisory authority of an organization. The issue of NStar’s spraying of toxic chemicals along the rights-of-way under our power lines and single source aquifer on Cape Cod was cited as an example of Wolf’s ‘hardline’ stance.
During the recent debate in Eastham, I heard Mr. Wolf mince no words about where he stood. He simply stated that in negotiating with NStar, and as a sound representative of Cape Cod, his negotiations would start with the premise that there would be no spraying of poisons on our sole source aquiver, period. His opponent, Ms. Lyons, a county commissioner, backslid by posing that this toxic spraying issue is ‘more complex’ and cited obstacles in law that need to be addressed and changed, as well as her understanding of this issue and even cited personalities. NStar is not a personality, but a huge corporation which has a long history, even under another corporate name (Commonwealth Electric), of ignoring the health and safety concerns of Cape Codders; for decades, who fully understand the issue of spraying toxic chemicals and its effects on our fragile sandy spit we all call home.
Last Wednesday, Dan Wolf joined State representatives Sarah Peake and Cleon Turner in supporting a call from GreenCAPE’s Sue Phelan for NStar to permanently end the use of toxic chemicals on power lines above Cape Cod’s sole source aquifer. These are actions taken by Mr. Wolf which are much louder then only words, and his business, Cape Air’s solar heated hangars in Hyannis have been cited as one of the greenest businesses not only on the Cape but in southeastern Massachusetts, which created over 500 jobs. His stance on this issue alone is truly representative of our community, a view that needs to be heard an acted upon in the State House. That’s why I am urging people to vote for Dan Wolf on September 14th, and most importantly come November 2nd. Circle your calendars now.
Joe Bangert
Former Director Massachusetts Agent Orange Program
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Harwich Wolf Pack
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
It's about what we can do, together
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To serve as state senator for the Cape and Islands would be a true honor. After 30 years building connections through our communities, raising a family, starting a business, creating jobs while honoring the environment, serving many nonprofit and public boards, I believe I now have the leadership, experience and temperament to represent voters well.
To serve as state senator for the Cape and Islands would be a true honor. After 30 years building connections through our communities, raising a family, starting a business, creating jobs while honoring the environment, serving many nonprofit and public boards, I believe I now have the leadership, experience and temperament to represent voters well.
Two quick stories tell a lot about why I am asking for Cape constituents' votes on Sept. 14.
The first:
A few weeks ago, after a year of hard, sometimes complicated work, I threw the switch on the largest solar panel installation in southeastern Massachusetts.
Cape Air, the company I founded 21 years ago with one plane, and one route, now has almost 1,000 employees, many of whom work at our Barnstable headquarters. That facility will now be electricity-neutral on a year-round basis.
Those solar panels create good jobs as well as electricity. They reduce our unhealthy reliance on fossil fuels.
As state senator, I will work to make projects like this available to small businesses and homeowners, part of a plan we develop together to make the Cape and Islands energy-self-sufficient, strengthening our economy while protecting our environment.
The second story:
Cape Air's health insurance policy recently came up for renewal. We were shocked when the company gave us its quote: an 18 percent hike over last year.
That was on a Monday. By Wednesday, a competitor came back with an offer: How about a 5 percent hike?
We went back to the first company. By Thursday, it had revised its quote: How about a 3 percent hike?
My question: What were they going to do with the 15 percent, more than $300,000, they needed on Monday but didn't need on Thursday?
Of course I know the answer: Drive up profits at our expense.
We need a state senator who understands the crucial difference between business that is part of our community's fabric, and corporations that skim profits without caring about our future.
What does this mean?
It means we support local businesspeople and the entrepreneurial spirit. It means we turn to community banks, where I've served and participated for many years, rather than anonymous off-Cape lenders. It means we encourage local farmers; their food is better for our health, and they are our neighbors.
It means we force insurance companies to roll back outrageous homeowners' insurance premiums. It means we don't allow NStar to spray poison on our land in the name of keeping power lines clear. It means we strengthen public education. My three daughters got great educations at Cape Cod public schools. We must get our fair share of state funding so our towns are not pitted against each other in bitter fights about fiscal formulas.
This has been my lifelong philosophy. This is the understanding I will bring to the Statehouse.
My leadership has been proved. At the state level, I serve on the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, managing the state 's many parks. Here at home, I worked with many others to find solutions to our wastewater crisis as co-chairman of the Business Roundtable.
No matter the issue, my process will always be the same: Bring people together, collaborate with mutual respect, build understanding, and then get real results.
So this campaign, like the past 30 years, is not about what I can do. It's about what we can do.
That's why more than 570 of Cape Air's employees are also its owners, sharing our successes and profits.
That's why I'm proud to have won the endorsement of both the Massachusetts Nurses Association and the Massachusetts Teachers Association.
That's why I ask voters to turn to anyone they know who has served with me on a public or nonprofit board over these many years. Ask about my commitment, experience and skills. Ask about my ability to connect the dots and bring people together. Ask about my passion.
I'm ready to serve as the Cape's full-time state senator.
Dan Wolf of North Harwich, president of Cape Air, is seeking the Democratic nomination for the Cape and Islands state Senate seat.
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