Friday, June 3, 2011

AFP To Protest NJ Greenhouse Gas Initiative, 6/8

Americans for Prosperity, New Jersey's leading free-market, grassroots organization, will lead a protest demonstration next Wednesday, June 8 at 12:00 noon outside the offices of the failing Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. The protest will take place as the latest secretive auction of carbon permits is underway inside RGGI’s headquarters located at 90 Church Street (near Ground Zero).

Americans for Prosperity’s New Jersey chapter has led the fight against the clandestine Cap & Trade scheme for the past year leading to last week’s decision by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to pull the Garden State out of what he termed was a “gimmicky” program that is “nothing more than a tax on electricity.”

“Governor Christie’s decision to withdraw New Jersey from the destructive and failing RGGI Cap & Trade program was a major blow to the regional scheme,” said AFP-NJ state director Steve Lonegan. “But that was not the end of this fight, nor the end of RGGI.”

“Americans for Prosperity’s thousands of citizen activists in New Jersey, New York and in the eight other states that are a part of this Cap & Trade scheme will not rest until RGGI is sent to the ash heap of history,” added Lonegan. “We will not rest until RGGI is completely rooted out and dismantled. That includes fully repealing RGGI in the New Jersey state Legislature and seeing that the other states also pull out of RGGI.”

“That’s why we will be leading hundreds of activists right to RGGI’s doorstep next Wednesday to demand that this sketchy, shadowy, job-destroying scheme be killed once and for all.”

For more information on the RGGI cap-and-trade program, please visit www.NoNJCapAndTrade.com. Also, visit Americans for Prosperity’s website here.

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