Campaign Overview
Polling results suggest that a majority of conservative citizens believe that climate change is a threat and that action should be taken to slow, stop, or reverse it. This constituency is not well organized, nor has it coalesced behind any solutions.
Republicans for Environmental Protection and its "sister" ConservAmerica have launched a joint campaign focused on the key state of South Carolina. We are identifying and educating the conservative constituency in that state on the issue of climate change and the uniquely conservative solutions that may be used to address the problem.
With its Low Country, South Carolina will be drastically reshaped by rising ocean levels and increased storm patterns now predicted by scientists if climate change is not slowed, stopped, or reversed. The potential human suffering, budgetary impact, and citizen displacement is staggering. The state's governor, Mark Sanford, has written publicly about his concerns and his impatience with inaction on the part of our government.
This campaign has been designed to help shape acceptable public policy with the publication Good Stewards: A Conservative Citizen's Guide to Climate Change, project-specific pages on our two web sites (rep.org and ConservAmerica.org), and a media campaign. All aspects of the project are currently operational. Click here to download the 1.1 MB PDF of Good Stewards.
As funding becomes available, we plan to use this as a model to expand our outreach to other states at risk to the impacts of climate change.
South Carolina Campaign Calendar
The week of December 10, 2007, REP Policy Director Jim DiPeso and Government Affairs Director David Jenkins were in Columbia, Charleston, Beaufort, Greenville and Spartanburg for a series of editorial board meetings, talk radio interviews, meetings with key individuals, and visits to civic and political groups.
Jim DiPeso, Chester Sansbury, and
David Jenkins outside the Charleston Post and Courier,
which subsequently ran an article about
REP's campaign in South Carolina.
The week of January 7, 2008, President Martha Marks joined Jenkins in South Carolina for a series of similar activities, including the conservation community's "Climate Coolers" press conference, held right before the Republican Presidential Debate in Myrtle Beach.
These photos show Martha Marks speaking at the "Climate Coolers" press conference and
being interviewed later by a local TV station.
Click here to see Martha on YouTube, speaking
at the press conference.
Martha and Dave expect to be back in the state in April.
To arrange for a radio or editorial board interview, or a presentation about our "Good Stewards" campaign, please contact David Jenkins at 703-785-9570 or djenkins@rep.org.
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