"I like it hot," Randy Voepel, Republican Mayor of Santee, California, wrote in a blistering e-mail declining an invitation from a Santee citizen who invited the Mayor to a a climate protection party.

Organizers of the event also asked Voepel to sign the U.S. Mayors' climate protection agreement. Instead, the Mayor issued this poison-pen response: "I wish you a great time at your `Destroy the American Economy Party' and hope signing meaningless documents makes you...