Now is the moment for the Senate to take action. Help us build political will!
Hey John - This is important:
We have a chance to get a price on carbon introduced into the Senate budget reconciliation deal this summer, and we need YOUR help to make sure there's enough political will in Congress. It only requires 51 votes for passage, so CCL is rolling out a massive campaign to call Senators and voice support for a price on carbon. Here's a short video from Senator Whitehouse talking to CCL volunteers about it:
Sen. Whitehouse's Message for CCL Volunteers
So what can you do to help today? Several things! Take one action or take them all.
(1) If you got on the DC chapter's email list but happen to be a registered voter in another state, call your senators. Contact info and sample scripts here: cclusa.org/senate
(2)Invite your friends and family to be part of the climate solution.
There's scripts and templates for you. Watch CCL Volunteer Nick call his mom in real time ---> (and celebrate with him when she says yes!) CCL originally had a goal of 10,000 constituents contacting Congress, and over 12,000have already used the cclusa.org/senate page to contact their Senators! You can also post on your social media for this campaign. (And keep an eye on our chapter calendar ... we may do another "friends and family" effort this weekend.)
(3)Join CCL-DC as we call CCL supporters in neighboring states (MD/DE/NJ). We need to make sure our friends are contacting their senators to speak up for a price on carbon. Here is a CCL link you can share with others, and below are the Zoom links for the events themselves.
At last Thursday's phone banking, 14 volunteers called 211 CCL'rs in 70 minutes, and got 43 people who agreed to call their Senators! That's an amazing success rate!
(4) CCL National is also getting in the game with phone banking this week. Share this link with other volunteers and friends to invite them to join us, and RSVP for the events below. Training for the auto-dialer is provided at the beginning, and the more people show up, the more people we are able to reach.
I joined the phone banking on Monday night with CCLrs from around the country, and I seriously had 7 warm conversations with people who agreed to contact their Senators. This has been the easiest phone banking of my life. Preliminary stats suggest we made more than 2000 dials in the 75 minutes we were calling.
Let's pass some climate legislation! Will you join us and do your part to demonstrate political will?
