Open Letter to Leahy, Sanders, Welch and Shumlin
The Sunday, January 6, 2012 Burlington Free Press features an open letter sponsored in part by the Stop the F35 Coalition and Save Our Skies VT.
Activism
Letter from our Religious Leaders
This letter was sent by US mail to members of our Congressional delegation and Mayor Weinberger and Mayor O’Brien. Concerned Burlington Area Religious Leaders c/o 209 North Prospect Street, Burlington, Vermont 05401 December 6, 2012 We have listened carefully to the debate about whether or not F35 jets are to be bedded at our airport. […]
Petition
“In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, we request the release of the complete scoring data used to determine the preferred beddown sites for the F-35.”
Save Our Skies Petition
Check out the Save Our Skies petition asking Leahy to come clean with the initial scoresheets for all bases. Please sign the petition and show your support for our communities and our future. We never should have been in the running in the first place. We are not the only group opposed to the F35 in Vermont or in the nation. Make sure to check out http://tucsonforward.com/ to see the rising opposition in Tucson to the F35s there!
To Senator Leahy on Election Day
Senator Leahy,
Due to your unwavering stance on basing the F-35 in Burlington, I
will no longer support and or vote for you! That goes for any of our
elected officials in Vermont, Welch, Shumlin, Sanders for that
matter. It amazes me how you all can be so easily swayed by big
business and the military. I am unaware of any piece of legislation
that you have ever voted against, when it comes to the defense
budget. Especially the latest F-35 scam.
Do you honestly believe that this will be good for Vermont and it’s
Open Letter to Harry Chen, M.D., Commissioner of Health, State of VT
September 26, 2012
Harry Chen, M.D.
Commissioner of Health
Vermont Department of Health
108 Cherry St.
Burlington VT 05402
Dear Commissioner Chen,
I am writing this letter at the behest of Austin Sumner, Chair of the Burlington Board of Health. I presented during the public comment period this month at the Board of Health meeting. He suggested at that time that I contact you and ask you to open an investigation into the public health effects that will be caused if the F-35 Weapon System is based at the Burlington International Airport.