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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (10302)	1/24/2000 9:31:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Did Gore Learn Environmental Lessons at Waste Dump? 1992 Video, Photos Belie Gore's Latest Claims About Dad's Farm, Nicholson Says WASHINGTON (January 22) – Vice President Al Gore is at it again in Iowa, making claims about his life as the son of farmer Albert Gore, Sr. This time, however, his boasts about the Carthage, Tennessee farm where he spent several weeks each summer are contradicted by news accounts, videos and photographs taken of the Gore farm in October of 1992. “I learned from my dad the respect for the environment that all farmers who farm their own land have,” Gore gushed yesterday in Boone, Iowa, as he treated farm crowds to heartwarming reminiscences of his days in the 4-H Club and raising Angus cattle. “I may have been raised most of my life in Washington,” he said, “but I know one end of the pitchfork from the other.” “Al Gore says he knows about pitchforks, but he's far more proficient with a shovel – and that's the implement he was using yesterday in Iowa,” joked Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson. Citing news accounts, TV footage and still photographs, Nicholson charged that “learning to respect the environment at the Gore farm in Carthage would be like learning to respect cattle at a slaughterhouse. For years, they used the farm to maintain a garbage dump that they filled with pesticide and oil containers, aerosol cans, and unrecycled cans and bottles. It wasn't a pristine environmental haven, it was an ugly, dangerous dump -- and it could have leached into the Caney Fork River.” Nicholson cited an October 29, 1992 story in The Washington Times detailing the existence of the dump in a ditch on the Gore property. Although Gore denied the truth of the story during a C-SPAN viewer call-in program at the time, still photos and video footage taken from the air by a Nashville television station clearly show the site, which neighboring farmers said had been on the property “for years.” Among the items clearly visible are several empty containers of a tobacco growth retardant, “Royal MH-30.” According to previous statements from the Gore campaign, Gore's father stopped tobacco operations on the farm in 1980, 12 years before the pictures were taken. A spokesman for MH-30's manufacturer, Uniroyal, said disposal of the pesticide in an open dump “would be inappropriate,” and a federal EPA official confirmed that state fines for improper dumping of a pesticide at the time began at $500 per incident, with federal penalties as high as $25,000. rnc.org

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (10302)	1/24/2000 5:12:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Talk about privileged, Algore never even had to buy his own dope: nypostonline.com In an earlier interview with the Web site stopthedrugwar.org, Wernecke said, "I was [Gore's] regular supplier. I didn't deal dope, I just gave it to him." Gore spokesman Chris Lehane told The Post the veep "doesn't remember ever having a conversation like that." John Wernecke: "Al open the door, it's me John I've got the stuff." Algore: "WHAT???" John Wernecke: "It's me John, I've got the stuff open the door!". Algore: "JOHN'S NOT HERE MAN!!"