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

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (465812)	9/27/2003 2:59:16 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Bushies are spinning desperately today, trying to spread disinformation, slander, innuendo, conspiracy theories about Hillary, calling dems unpatriotic again, pretending the war is a big success, pumping musclehead Arnold as if he's some political genius, basically firing everything they've got in their ammo belt plus some real stink bombs hoping, desperately to somehow erase the reality that Bush is Humpty Dumpty. And all the king's horses and all the king's men ---

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (465812)	9/27/2003 9:00:10 AM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. asked the State Ethics Commission Friday to examine the relationships of a well-known Annapolis lobbyist after learning that he represents competing interests in the debate over whether Maryland should buy costly new touch-screen voting machines. Top Ehrlich aides said they did not learn until this week that Gilbert J. Genn, who was registered to lobby on behalf of Diebold Election Systems, the manufacturer of the electronic voting machines, was also authorized to represent Science Applications International Corp., hired by Ehrlich to determine whether the voting system is secure enough to use. "We did not know about his representation of both clients," said Henry Fawell, a spokesman for the governor. "We wish that that had been disclosed." Suzanne S. Fox, executive director of the ethics commission, would not comment Friday on Genn's case. But speaking generally, Fox said that conflicts among clients of lobbyists occur regularly, and it is the responsibility of lobbyists to make clear for whom they are advocating in dealings with state officials. sunspot.net