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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonkie who wrote (2635)	4/22/2001 2:52:11 PM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 93284

Maybe, it's a good time to sell GE shares. They never appreciate that much, anyway! Thanks very much for the article. M "General Electric, the company responsible for the PCB contamination that makes the Hudson a federal Superfund site, claims dredging would disrupt the river ecosystem and dry up the local economy. GE is currently spending millions of dollars a week on television ads depicting huge mud-dripping clamshell dredges. But according to EPA and DEC officials, clamshells are navigational, not environmental dredges, and are not under consideration for cleaning the poison GE dumped in the river. Under federal law, the multinational giant is responsible for removing the toxin, a cost GE does not want to pay. While General Electric dumped one million pounds or more of PCBs into the river, it is not all in one place, but spread over about 40 `hotspots´ in the river between Glens Falls and Albany. The toxin migrates from those areas, getting into the food chain, the water column, mud along the shore, and the air. Dredging equipment would be scaled to the size requirements of each hot spot. The equipment for dewatering sediment and cleansing the water can be trucked in and out of sites where it is needed, duplicating the technique used in Plattsburgh. No permanent treatment facilities would be required.

To: zonkie who wrote (2635)	4/22/2001 3:00:19 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

What happened to Democracy? Bush and Cheney use strong-arm tactics to select candidates for 2002 Congressional election! Americans should select their own candidates. Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney should not decide who has the right to run for public office.. Speak out! Our future is at stake! JMOP, Mephisto Political Briefing April 22, 2001 By B. DRUMMOND AYRES JR. From The New York Times Feeling the Long Arm of the White House (The following is an excerpt from the above article.") The 2002 Congressional elections are 18 months away, but already the White House is involved in the effort to tip the 50-50 balance in the Senate to the Republican side. President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and the top White House political strategist, Karl Rove, are personally, even BLUNTLY, injecting themselves into some races, pressuring candidates they consider weak to get out and urging reluctant but more promising runners (in the White House view) to get in. Three weeks ago, Mayor Norm Coleman of St. Paul felt the pressure. He had been thinking about trying to unseat Minnesota's governor, Jesse Ventura, an independent, but the White House saw him as the best Republican bet to take on Senator Paul Wellstone, a Democrat who some polls indicate is vulnerable. President Bush summoned Mr. Coleman for a little chat in the Rose Garden (Mr. Coleman ran the Bush campaign in Minnesota last year). Mr. Rove held a follow-up talk. Whereupon last weekend Mr. Coleman abandoned his hope to be governor and announced that he was "putting the pieces together" to take on Mr. Wellstone. A couple of days later, the majority leader of the Minnesota House, Tim Pawlenty, felt the pressure. Mr. Pawlenty was about to announce that he, too, intended to take on Mr. Wellstone. But then Mr. Cheney called, warning that a Pawlenty- Coleman primary fight might be too divisive. So rather than announce, Mr. Pawlenty renounced — but not without lamenting as he departed that "it makes you wonder about the integrity of the process." Meanwhile, next door in South Dakota, Representative John Thune is beginning to feel the pressure. He wants to run for governor (the seat is open, with no serious Democratic opposition in sight), but the White House wants him to take on SenatorTim Johnson, a Democrat who some Republican strategists think is vulnerable. Mr. Bush had a talk with Mr. Thune in early March and then on Thursday invited him and his wife, Kimberley, to the White House for a quiet dinner — and more talk. No word on how things went. nytimes.com