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Greenest Show on Earth: Democrats Gear Up for
Denver
The host committee for
the Democratic National Convention wanted 15,000 fanny packs for volunteers.
But they had to be made of organic cotton.
By unionized labor. In the USA.
Convention organizers
hired the first-ever Director of Greening,
longtime environmental activist Andrea Robinson.
To test whether
celebratory balloons advertised as biodegradable actually will decompose,
Ms. Robinson buried samples in a steaming
compost heap. She hired an Official Carbon
Adviser, who will measure the greenhouse-gas emissions of every placard,
every plane trip, every appetizer prepared and every coffee cup tossed.
To police the four-day
event she's assembling a trash brigade. Decked out in green shirts, 900
volunteers will hover at waste-disposal
stations to make sure delegates put each scrap
of trash in the proper bin. Lest a fork slip
into the wrong container unnoticed, volunteers
will paw through every bag before it is hauled away. "That's the only way to
make sure it's pure,"
Ms. Robinson says.
John McCain accused Barack Obama of playing politics with
race on Thursday, raising the explosive issue after the first black
candidate with a serious chance of winning the White House claimed
Republicans will try to scare voters by saying he "doesn't look like all
those other presidents on the dollar bills."
"I'm disappointed that Senator Obama would say the things
he's saying," McCain told reporters in Racine, Wis. The Arizona senator said
he agreed with campaign manager Rick Davis' statement earlier that "Barack
Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the
deck. It's divisive, negative, shameful and wrong." The aide was suggesting
McCain had been wrongfully accused.
The committee hosting the Democratic
National Convention has used the city's gas pumps to fill up and apparently
avoided paying state and federal fuel taxes.
The practice, which began four months
ago, may have ended hours after its disclosure. An aide to Mayor John
Hickenlooper released a statement Tuesday evening saying that Denver 2008
Host Committee members would pay market prices for fuel and would also be
liable for all applicable taxes.
However, Public Works spokeswoman
Christine Downs told City Council members just hours before that host
committee members were fueling up at the city pumps. The city does not pay
taxes on the fuel for its fleet, and Downs said the host committee would not
either.
The disclosure brought immediate
scrutiny. Colorado Attorney General John Suthers said the practice "would
seem" to be illegal and referred the matter to the state Department of
Revenue.
McCain, Obama or 'none of the above'?
2008 could be historic election of non-participation With
one of five Hillary Clinton supporters saying they are unlikely to vote for
Barack
Obama and
deep dissatisfaction in Republican ranks for the nominee of their party,
third party candidates have the best chance in years of scoring significant
vote tallies.
But is it a "waste of a vote" to cast
a protest ballot for someone other than a Republican or Democratic
presidential candidate?
No, says Joseph Farah, editor of WND,
who is leading a budding movement to encourage support for third party
candidates or write-ins for the top slot on the ballot.
"I don't deny that either Barack
Obama or
John McCain will become president in January 2009," he says.
"It's just that I can't be a part of supporting either
one – not even as the lesser of two evils."
Kirk Schuring Republican
Congressional Candidate For The 16th. District Of
Ohio, Becomes Embroiled In Controversy Over Remarks Made At A Rally About The Residents Of His Home District Of Canton, Ohio.
Opposing
Socialism -------- Preserving Liberty 
With
one of five Hillary Clinton supporters saying they are unlikely to vote for
