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

To: PartyTime who wrote (513747)	12/20/2003 11:34:42 PM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 769667

REBUILDING IN THE GULF Feinstein's husband lands Army contract Report: Blum's firm awarded $600 million deal -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: April 22, 2003 5:00 p.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Questions of conflict of interest have been raised about Sen. Dianne Feinstein, after her husband's company was awarded an Army contract worth $600 million, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. California Sen. Dianne Feinstein According to the paper, the award to help with troop mobilization, weapons systems training and anti-terrorism efforts is the latest in a string of defense contracts given to URS Corp., a Bay area engineering firm partially owned by Richard Blum, the spouse of California Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Blum serves on the company's board of directors and controls about 24 percent of the firm's stock, according to Hoover's Inc. research firm. A Feinstein spokesman declined to comment on the contract. Blum and URS representatives could not be reached for comment. "We are very pleased with this important win, which further expands our strong relationship with the Army and demonstrates our ability to provide a full spectrum of support services to ensure that our troops remain combat ready and capable of quickly mobilizing to address threats around the world," said George R. Melton, president of the URS Corp.'s EG&G division, in a company press release. The Chronicle reports URS has a long history of government work, but has focused more on those activities since acquiring EG&G from the Carlyle Group investment firm last year for about $500 million. EG&G works with the military, NASA, and several federal departments, and specializes in transportation infrastructure and training people to dismantle weapons of mass destruction. Feinstein is the ranking member of the Technology and Terrorism subcommittee and a member of the Select Committee on Intelligence, where she helps oversee U.S. counterterrorism programs. She also serves on the Senate Appropriations Committee where she is ranking member of the Subcommittee on Military Construction. worldnetdaily.com

To: PartyTime who wrote (513747)	12/21/2003 1:04:49 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

All About George Bush _____________________________________ bushin30seconds.org Here's a short list of the top 7 reasons we're running this ad campaign against President George W. Bush and his administration. We hope this informs your own commercials, and inspires you to look further into the policies of the Bush Administration and their effect on the American public. 1. It appears that the Bush Administration has consistently misled the American public about Iraq , most significantly regarding Saddam Hussein's possession of weapons of mass destruction and his ties to al Queda and Osama bin Laden. fair.org 2. The Bush Administration's regressive environmental policies have lowered cleanliness standards for our air and water while allowing utility companies (many of whom are Bush campaign contributors) to profit off of the weakened regulations. In 2002, the head of the EPA's Office of Regulatory Enforcement resigned, complaining that the agency was “fighting a White House that seems determined to weaken the rules we are trying to enforce." (CNN, Aug. 22, 2002) The Bush Record on the Environment for 2003: nrdc.org 3. Bush is underfunding education. The President cut $200 million from his own No Child Left Behind Act, eliminating crucial educational programs for lower income children and cutting professional training for more than 20,000 teachers. Flawed from its very foundation, No Child Left Behind is based on then-Governor Bush's late-‘90s “Texas Miracle,”—a program of standardized testing designed to increase performance and reduce dropout rates--now recognized as a scandalous failure. villagevoice.com 4. The Bush Administration's Patriot Act threatens our constitutional rights and civil liberties. Passed by a post 9/11 Congress, the Patriot act expands the ability of law enforcement to conduct secret searches, and engage various forms of surveillance, including internet monitoring and wiretapping. It gives the FBI access to American citizens' highly personal medical, financial, mental health, and student records without notification or permission, and allows them to investigate individuals without probable cause of a crime. Finally, it permits non-citizens to be jailed based on mere suspicion and held indefinitely in six month increments without meaningful judicial review. aclu.org 5. Bush's Tax Cuts only benefit the rich. Bush claimed that his tax cut would “reduce tax rates for everyone who pays income tax.” He failed to mention that this “relief” program would put half of the tax cut's dividends into the hands of our nation's wealthiest 5%, while 8.1 million citizens in the bottom half of the income bracket receive approximately $300 a year. ctj.org 6. 3.3 million jobs (93,000 in August of 2003 alone) have been lost since Bush took office--more than the last 11 Presidents combined. (Bureau of Labor Statistics, June 2001-August 2003) Meanwhile, huge corporations are paying fewer taxes than ever: cbpp.org 7. Bush is underfunding homeland security : While energetic in waging war abroad, the Bush administration has been oddly lethargic in fortifying our defenses at home. Domestic security agencies have been neglected. Police and firefighters have been denied essential resources, and muddled public strategy has only spread alarm and confusion. ppionline.org More Recommended Reading: The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century, by Paul Krugman Dude, Where’s My Country?, by Michael Moore Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, by Al Franken The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder, by Mark Crispin Miller Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush’s America, by Molly Ivins Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential, by James Moore The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception, by David Corn Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush’s War on Iraq, by Sheldon Rampton, John C. Stauben