Greenpeace takes warming to South Jersey pols
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Greenpeace volunteers made a delivery to 3rd district U.S. House of Representatives hopefuls John Adler and Chris Myers on Wednesday: thousands of letters and postcards that prodded the politicians to take a stand on global warming, according to the Press of Atlantic City.
The volunteers had spent weeks collecting the letters from residents of Ocean and Burlington counties. When they went to the candidates’ offices to drop off the goods, they got what they described as a warm response from Adler’s people, and a chily reception from the Myers camp.
“Adler’s people seemed like they were very happy to see us, but the people in Myers’ office were much less willing to talk to us,” said (Linda) Grinfelds-Wilber, 52, of Island Heights, after leaving Myers’ Mount Holly office.
Fellow volunteer Bennett Wong agreed.
“The people in Myers’ office wouldn’t take a picture with us,” said Wong, 19, of Bayville. “But Adler’s staff took a picture with us and also talked to us about how concerned he was about global warming and that he was interested in working with us on a lot of things.”
When reached later, both Adler and Chris Russell, Myers’ campaign manager, said global warming was important and laid out some pro-environment plans.
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