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

To: D. Long who wrote (153841)	6/17/2001 1:24:03 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Corruption of Bush government example, appointing lobbyists with conflicts of interest to sensitive fed posts. This sort of thing is ominous and displays the stinking smell of corruption permeating from this new White House oil cartel gang. Should be laws against this sort of thing. No way in hell these appointees can be objective, fair or have the US peoples interests at heart. Just pure cronyism. Expect this to come back and defeat them all in coming elections. Sunday June 17 9:21 AM ET Alaska Drilling Supporters Get Key Interior Posts By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The head of a group campaigning for oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and an Alaska lawmaker who has promoted North Slope oil development were named to key Interior Department positions. Interior Secretary Gale Norton said on Saturday she has appointed Cam Toohey as her special assistant for Alaska and state Sen. Drue Pearce as a senior adviser on Alaska issues. Development backers hailed the appointments but environmentalists slammed them. Since 1996, Toohey has been executive director of Arctic Power, an Anchorage-based lobbying group with the campaign for ANWR drilling as its sole purpose. He will be based in Anchorage, overseeing the Interior Department's Alaska operations.