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To: American Spirit who wrote (86382)	11/24/2000 12:35:41 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

That's nonsense. And by the way, a very typical Democratic scientific way of measuring things. Keep believing Washington state is an environmental wasteland. We've got too many people moving here lately anyway. Yeah, you're right, the place is horrid. Pollution everywhere. Stay home next time.

To: American Spirit who wrote (86382)	11/24/2000 2:14:55 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

As usual, your facts are wrong. Cantwell spent 2 TIMES as much as Gorton....and she contributed herself $7,000,000+ of the $8,000,000+ spent by her campaign. If you search around this site, you will also see that the timber industry didn't spend much money on the Gorton campaign. opensecrets.org

To: American Spirit who wrote (86382)	11/24/2000 4:10:59 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Actually, Cantwell is still for sale. From Holman W. Jenkins Jr.'s Wednesday Business World column in the "Wall Street Journal": "You had to read between the lines to notice that Ms. Cantwell (like New Jersey's Senator-elect Jon Corzine) had lent money to her own campaign. How do such self-financed candidates get paid back? In office, they pass the hat among the usual donors who naturally would have business before a now-sitting U.S. Senator. And because the money goes to repay the money lent personally to their campaigns, the donor is effectively putting cash directly in the candidate's pocket. Only the self-deluded would consider this a less corrupting way of financing a political system."