November is just around the corner - the time when our vanishing polar bears settle down to den in their Arctic home. It’s also when Big Oil and other special interests find out if their millions in campaign contributions to Representative Richard Pombo will buy America’s #1 Wildlife Villain another trip to Congress.

Help us stop them! Donate now to support our work to defeat Richard Pombo and protect polar bears and other wildlife threatened by his dangerous, self-serving agenda.

Since taking office, Pombo has taken millions in campaign contributions from Big Oil and other special interests including $18,000 from VECO, an oil services firm now under federal investigation for influence peddling.[1]In return, Pombo has championed a polluter-friendly agenda that includes destructive drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the most important onshore denning habitat for America’s vanishing polar bears.

America’s polar bears, already facing the threat of extinction within the next century, could be devastated by Pombo’s drilling plans.Pombo’s abuses of power have earned him the dubious distinction of being named one of the 13 most Corrupt Members of Congress by the independent group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. [2]

What Others Are Saying about Rep. Richard Pombo“If you prefer the politics of extremes; if you're OK with selling off national parks; if backroom dealmaking and tainted money suit you; if you embrace out-of-balance budgets and the concentration of wealth — Pombo's your man.”- Modesto Bee, Oct. 10, 2006"His intention is clearly to disrupt the protection of threatened animals."- Fort Wayne News SentinelNovember 30, 2005“

Mr. Pombo in my view represents all that is wrong with the national government in Washington today.” Former Congressman Pete McCloskey (R-CA)"He's the dark knight of the environment who wants to gut endangered-species protections and is now clearing the way for open-water drilling."- San Francisco ChronicleOctober 21, 2005

We can stop Richard Pombo! Please donate now to help us defeat America’s #1 Wildlife Villain.

So far, our lobbying and grassroots activism has stopped Pombo’s dangerous drilling scheme. And our latest poll numbers have him two points behind in his bid for reelection. [3] That’s good news for polar bears and other wildlife threatened by Pombo’s self-serving agenda. But we still have a lot of work to do in the 24 days leading up to the election and the lame duck Congressional session that will follow. To win this thing and stop Pombo’s destructive drilling plans, we need to raise at least $40,000 in the next seven days… more if we can.Last weekend alone, our campaign personally contacted nearly 8,000 households in Pombo’s district!

That’s nearly 8,000 people who now know who Pombo has really been representing in Washington, DC - Big Oil and the special interests.But we still need to print door hangers and mail pieces, feed volunteers and transport them to neighborhoods in Pombo’s district where their efforts will make a differenceI know you don’t live in Pombo’s Congressional district, but you can still make a big difference to defeat his agenda in Congress and hold him accountable on Election Day -

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Let me be clear: No one in this Congress has done more to hurt wildlife and serve Big Oil and other special interests than Richard Pombo. Nothing you can do would do more to protect the wildlife we all love than to help us stop his agenda in Congress and send Pombo packing.Pombo’s agenda isn’t just bad for his Congressional District -- it hurts us all. As the powerful head of the House Resources Committee, Pombo has worked to roll back protections for our most cherished wildlife, allow harmful drilling in our vanishing wild places and weaken the laws that safeguard the air we breathe and the water we drink.