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Campaign Watch: VOTE TUESDAY!

Campaign Watch: VOTE TUESDAY!

Early voting concluded Saturday, and traditional Election Day is tomorrow — Tuesday, November 6th. If you have not yet voted, don’t miss your chance to make your voice heard. Click here to find where you vote. Polls are open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., and if you are in line at 7:30 p.m., you can still vote even if you have not gotten in the door yet.

If you have voted, volunteer for a pro-environmental candidate, and turn out your family and friends to vote for North Carolina’s shared environmental values. With key contests across the state in the balance, the future of environmental policy in North Carolina is coming down to the wire.

Foremost on the minds of North Carolina citizen conservation advocates is the makeup of the General Assembly. With their veto-proof majorities in each chamber, the current anti-environmental legislative leadership are able to ignore Gov. Roy Cooper’s objections and drive through many of their most outrageous proposals. These range from a moratorium on clean, renewable wind energy development to taking away the rights of neighbors to defend themselves in the courts from dangerously polluting factory hog farms.

More than enough of the General Assembly seats are “in play” during this election for that to change. Many of the strong challengers are among the pro-environment candidates endorsed by NCLCV’s Conservation PAC. Check to see if you are in any of these key districts.

NCLCV also continues to advocate against the “intentionally vague, deceptive, and misleading” constitutional amendments. The proposed amendments would further concentrate state power over environmental policy in the hands of a few dangerous legislative leaders.

Meanwhile, on the national level, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) has invested a record $80 million in congressional contests around the country, hoping to defeat some of the most anti-environmental members of the House and Senate.

The LCV Action Fund has made three endorsements in North Carolina Congressional contests in this general election: Linda Coleman in the Second District, Dan McCready in the Ninth, and Kathy Manning in the Thirteenth.

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