...is to remove Rep. Scott Garrett from the NJ Congressional Delegation in 2010. I write this today after "Retire Garrett" blogger Mike Simonson has posted another factually devastating article about Garrett's environmental record. The fifth district and our entire state is sending someone to D.C. to systematically unwind the green-prosperity movement's victories for human health and economic growth, and prevent any further desperately-needed progress.

Retiring Garrett (5th District, on NJ's northern rim) is the "single" most effective way of greening NJ because removing him from office is a discrete event with a guaranteed positive influence on the entire nation's environmental & related economic policies. There can no better instance of our local action making a significant, immediate national impact -- even global impact because of America's huge (and so far negative) impact on international collaboration with regard to the environment.

To start helping the campaign to "Retire Garrett" (formerly called "Take Back The Fifth"), contact George Hertzberg (201 767 9411, hertzberg1 "at" verizon "dot" net), who has launched a Political Action Committee to help do just this. NOW is the right time to support this PAC because the more opposition to Garrett that builds early,

1. the more talented people we'll be able to engage and employ to spread the word about Garrett's environmental destructiveness, and harness grass-roots opposition,
2. the more encouragement we'll giving for a spirited Republican opposition during the next primary, and
3. the more probability we'll have of getting the national Democratic Party, national environmental organizations, and others to commit big resources to Garrett's Democratic challenger.

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