Although the House vote today to oppose repealing the moratorium on nuclear power was a significant victory, we are by no means finished with this issue.  We still have a conference committee to work through, and we can be certain that this amendment will continue to be offered every session until it passes…and in spite of today’s encouraging vote, defeating this initiative will only become more difficult in the future.

There are a few simple things that we all can do in the short term to help keep some momentum intact:

1.  First and foremost, if your legislator is one of the 72 who voted in support of keeping the moratorium (vote count pasted below), please send them a quick note thanking them for their vote today, and ask your friends and family to do the same.

2. Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper applauding the Minnesota House for their forward-thinking vote on the repeal.

3. Go to the following news stories about the repeal and leave a brief comment voicing your support for the House decision today:

Star Tribune: http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/44082052.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUac8HEaDiaMDCinchO7DU

Pioneer Press: http://www.twincities.com/ci_12264764?nclick_check=1

House Vote Results (to be clear – a “negative vote” was a vote to maintain the moratorium):

Those who voted in the affirmative were:
Anderson, B.
Anderson, P.
Anderson, S.
Beard
Brod
Buesgens
Bunn
Cornish
Davids
Dean
Demmer
Dettmer
Doepke
Doty
Downey
Drazkowski
Eastlund
Faust
Garofalo
Gottwalt
Gunther
Hackbarth
Hamilton
Haws
Holberg
Hoppe
Hosch
Howes
Huntley
Juhnke
Kelly
Kiffmeyer
Koenen
Kohls
Lanning
Loon
Mack
Magnus
Mahoney
McFarlane
McNamara
Murdock
Nelson
Nornes
Norton
Olin
Pelowski
Peppin
Poppe
Sanders
Scott
Seifert
Severson
Shimanski
Smith
Swails
Torkelson
Urdahl
Westrom
Zellers

Those who voted in the negative were:

Abeler
Anzelc
Atkins
Benson
Bigham
Bly
Brown
Brynaert
Carlson
Champion
Clark
Davnie
Dittrich
Eken
Falk
Fritz
Gardner
Greiling
Hansen
Hausman
Hayden
Hilstrom
Hilty
Hornstein
Hortman
Jackson
Johnson
Kahn
Kalin
Kath
Knuth
Laine
Lenczewski
Lesch
Liebling
Lieder
Lillie
Loeffler
Mariani
Marquart
Masin
Morgan
Morrow
Mullery
Murphy, E.
Murphy, M.
Newton
Obermueller
Otremba
Paymar
Persell
Peterson
Reinert
Rosenthal
Rukavina
Ruud
Sailer
Scalze
Sertich
Simon
Slawik
Slocum
Solberg
Sterner
Thao
Thissen
Tillberry
Wagenius
Ward
Welti
Winkler
Spk. Kelliher

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Justin Fay
Contract Lobbyist
Sierra Club North Star Chapter
612-251-1457
jfay612@gmail.com