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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: long-gone who wrote (91)	8/28/2000 7:25:25 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 10042

Pezz, Were you the true environmental activist you claim you would better understand the wealth of topsoil being lost due to this fire season. Montana Gov. Blames Feds for Fire Damage Sunday, August 27, 2000 FOXNews.com Montana's governor Sunday told Fox News that the federal government shares some of the blame for wildfires that have ravaged the American West and forced the closure of most Montana counties. Chris Kleponis/AP Sunday: Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman talks about the fires in the western United States during the taping of Fox News Sunday in Washington. The fire danger, Gov. Marc Racicot said on Fox News Sunday, was something "that the administration knew about, that all of us have known about for a long period of time." But Racicot denied that Western governors were using the issue of the fires to hurt Al Gore's presidential campaign. "That's patent nonsense," Racicot, a Republican, said. "Anyone that would politicize this issue with the tragedy that's confronting the people of the West, virtually all of them, would be outrageous. It's totally inappropriate to cast it in those terms." Racicot, who has already closed a total of 30 of the state's 56 counties to anyone without a special use permit, said his state was now paying the price for years of neglect by both state and federal officials. "The fact is everybody was warned of this...we have not attached the right priority to these issues," the governor told Fox News. "We're beyond $100 million in fire fighting expenses, and that's just suppression costs. We have no idea yet what's going to happen to the people of Montana in terms of economic losses," Racicot added. Montana's sole congressman is also laying the blame on Washington, and said Friday that President Bill Clinton is more concerned about his environmental legacy than actually protecting the environment. Ben Margot/AP Sunday: Lane Demarais, of Laurel, Mont., takes a break after his overnight shift fighting the Maudlow-Toston fire to call his girlfriend on his 20th birthday. "We knew we were going to have this fire season and (the Clinton administration) knowingly took the resources that we needed to prepare for this fire season and they put them over to the president's land legacy instead. And they deserve the legacy that they are going to have, which is the fires of the year 2000," Rep. Rick Hill, R-Mont., said. foxnews.com