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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (22534)	7/6/2000 10:49:54 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Can you believe the chutzpah? AlGore the Junior continues to push government action that feathers his nest: Gore's relationship with Occidental a little too cozy July 6, 2000 BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Embedded in Vice President Al Gore's energy program is proposed continuation of an exemption, soon scheduled to expire, for payments of royalties to the government to permit deep oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Only one company has called for this break: Occidental Petroleum Corp., which happens to be the major source of Gore's wealth.... suntimes.com In his masterful biography Inventing Al Gore, Newsweek correspondent Bill Turque traces Hammer's role in helping--and being helped by--the late Sen. Albert Gore and his son. When the elder Gore was defeated for re-election in 1970, he was given a high-paying job on Occidental's coal affiliate, and Hammer devoted himself to launching the younger Gore's career. He also provided the future vice president with a zinc-mining lease whose income for him "through the early 1990s exceeded $300,000," writes Turque. Not only is Gore found supporting the company's deep-water exploration, environmentalists complain that he has refused to condemn Occidental's oil drilling plans on sacred Indian land in Colombia. The Gore-Hammer past cannot be erased. But is it time now for Gore to begin cutting his money link with Occidental Petroleum?