To the community,

For America’s progressive voters there is no room for apathy or “sitting it out” this election year. After the Tea Party takeover of the Republican Party, America is standing on a political precipice. If enough voters are hoodwinked into voting against their own economic interests and the health and well-being of their families and communities, then the obstructionism cynically practiced by the Party of No will result in a violent lurch to the right unparalleled in the American political experience.

Locally, Tom McClintock said commercial logging should be explored as an option to pay for forest fuel reduction projects in the Basin and cutting large trees to subsidize less profitable fuel reduction work could mark a return to “common sense” forest management practices.

Join us for a Day of Action Oct. 9 at 10am in the library parking lot … 1000 Rufus Allen Blvd., South Lake Tahoe. Will you spare one day to help elect people who will protect our lake and the Sierra? We have too much to lose if we don’t get involved.

Judy Williams, president Lake Tahoe Democratic Club