By David Carkhuff / Portland Daily Sun / June 10, 2010

Using paid advertising combined with media events, activists this week have been targeting Maine’s Republican senators, trying to earn their votes a key climate change vote slated for today (Thursday).

But the national political agenda will not end with the vote. On Saturday, a coalition of veterans and national security organizations will host a town hall meeting here to call for passage of comprehensive climate and energy legislation.

A flurry of advocacy ads will try to affect a vote today on what’s called the “Murkowski amendment.”

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Beyond today’s vote on the Murkowski amendment, groups are looking long-range at clean-energy legislation.

At 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the Portland Public Library, Operation Free will host a town hall meeting with top retired military leaders and veterans, along with local elected officials, “to discuss the connection between climate change and national security, and call for passage of comprehensive climate and energy legislation.”

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