Campaign for Affordable and Reliable Energy (CARE) Launches Statewide Radio Blitz...

Campaign for Affordable and Reliable Energy (CARE) Launches Statewide Radio Blitz to Promote Sensible Energy Policy

Statewide Radio Ad Campaign Begins Today; Will Continue into
November
PORTLAND, Ore.--(Business Wire)--
FreedomWorks Oregon's Campaign for Affordable and Reliable Energy
(CARE) is launching a series of radio ads promoting the development of
clean, affordable, and reliable sources of energy, in addition to
exposing how anti-energy radicals are opposed not just to energy
development, but to our modern way of life.

Listen to the First Ad
(http://lightsonoregon.com/audio/EnergySpot1.mp3)

Listen to the Second Ad
(http://lightsonoregon.com/audio/EnergySpot2.mp3)

High energy prices hurt Oregon families and cost the community
good paying jobs. Looking to the future, Oregon needs to have a
diverse portfolio of energy choices, such as geothermal, wave, hydro,
natural gas, and wind power to support long term economic growth and
ease family budgets.

The statewide ad buy is part of the million dollar campaign
launched by FreedomWorks Oregon. The ad will hit the airwaves on
Wednesday in the Portland market on 15 stations, before beginning to
run in Eugene and the rest of the state later in the week.

An excerpt from of the ads explains:

Husband: These energy bills just keep climbing, it's going to
break our budget. There needs to be some real action developing new
energy sources so were not so dang dependent on Middle East oil.

Wife: Why would any company do that in Oregon, they'd be sued!

Husband: What?

Wife: A number of companies started investing in alternative
energy and an extreme environmental group started suing and taking
them to court.

Wife: When a geothermal plant was proposed in Central Oregon, an
environmental group took legal action to stop it, when a company
wanted to develop wave energy off the Oregon coast another
environmental group blocked it, and the same is true for natural gas,
wind energy, and other new energy sources.

Husband: These environmental groups (...) and they clearly don't
care if families like ours can pay our energy bills.

The CARE campaign is part of a larger, multi-million dollar,
national voter education and turnout effort by FreedomWorks to unlock
domestic and emerging sources of energy for American consumers.
FreedomWorks is a grassroots organization with over a half a million
members nationwide and over 30,000 activists in Oregon dedicated to
lower taxes, less government, and more freedom.

FreedomWorks Oregon
Russ Walker, 503-463-9457
rwalker@freedomworks.org

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