FreedomWorks Protests Congressman Shuler’s Anti-Energy Votes

On Monday, July 2 FreedomWorks activists, including the FreedomWorks Panda, will be making an appearance outside Congressman Heath Shuler’s Asheville office. The Panda will be joined by activists from FreedomWorks North Carolina to educate voters on recent votes Congressman Shuler has cast regarding gasoline prices and limiting domestic energy production, making America more dependent on foreign sources of energy.

Allen Page, FreedomWorks’ Southeastern Director, commented:

“Congressman Shuler is supposed to be a Blue Dog Democrat, but for someone who claims to be a fiscal conservative, he’s not taking real life economics into consideration on his energy votes. His recent vote on the Energy Policy Reform and Revitalization Act would limit development of domestic energy sources, thereby increasing gas prices.

Limiting domestic production will do nothing to relieve energy costs; in fact it will make them worse. If we want to see gas prices come down we need to increase the supply. Congressman Shuler needs to understand that although his votes satisfied the environmentalists in Hollywood, he is raising costs for hardworking North Carolinians at the pump.”

FreedomWorks is a national grassroots organization promoting lower taxes, less government, and more freedom, and has 26,000 members in North Carolina.

The FreedomWorks Panda will continue to show up to protest pandering to the Left. Its most recent appearances were at an Al Gore book signing and an AFL-CIO rally at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.