Few movies attract politicians’ attention, but “The Day After Tomorrow” is doing just that.

Generally, Republicans want the public to remember “it’s just a movie.” Fiction.

Democrats want the public to think about how global warming can harm the planet.

Bucking that partisan stance is Maine Republican U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, who on Friday said she welcomes this weekend’s release of the movie.

The flick is fantasy, Snowe wrote, “but there’s overwhelming scientific evidence that warming trends are real, and that overall climate change through more severe weather events, droughts and temperature swings, and the emergence of new diseases in places not found in the past is affecting Maine, the United States and, indeed, the world.”

Snowe said she hopes the movie will serve as a call to action for Congress to quickly take up the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act for mandatory reductions of carbon dioxide.

Seniors unhappy with drug cards

Complaining that the new Medicare prescription drug cards are confusing and offer little price relief, Maine seniors on Wednesday will again board a bus to Canada to buy cheaper prescriptions in the land where price controls are law.

The trip is again offered and organized by the Maine Council of Senior Citizens, a group that has ties to labor and the Democratic party.

This time, the June 2-3 trip will combine presidential politics with drug buys. The trip marks the first one since the Medicare drug cards were introduced earlier this month.

Seniors in Maine have complained about the drug cards, said Neena Quirion of the council. “They said the cards are confusing. They say: It isn’t going to do me any good,’ and I can’t reach anyone!’ … George W. Bush can give all the speeches he wants, but his record shows he has no plan to lower the cost of prescription drugs for everyday Mainers.”

John Kerry, Democratic presidential candidate, supports “a real prescription drug plan” to lower costs, she said.

The bus will pick up seniors early Wednesday in Saco, Auburn, Augusta and Waterville before heading to Calais and eventually into Canada to fill prescriptions. For more information call Quirion at 622-3151 or on her cell at 446-3279.

Garden party for tax cappers

Supporters of the Maine Taxpayers Action Network, the group that got the 1 percent property tax cap referendum on the Nov. 2 ballot, will gather next weekend for a campaign garden party.

The event will begin at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, June 5, at the estate of Mary Alice Davis of Falmouth. Davis’ late husband was the son of the founder of Shaw’s Supermarkets. The widow has had disagreements with Falmouth officials over her effort to subdivide her land. “She’s a strong-willed woman who knows what she wants,” said Topsham resident Carol Palesky, leader of the tax-cap effort. “She’s beautiful inside and out.”

At the event, awards will be given out to those who have shown extraordinary support, including an Oxford County man who taped pens to his chest so they wouldn’t freeze during his winter effort to gather more than 1,000 signatures for the referendum.

Supporters and those who want to learn more about the campaign are invited to the party, Palesky said. For more information, call Palesky at 725-4539.

By Staff Writer Bonnie Washuk