Posted on 09/25/2004 7:54:23 PM PDT by timbuck2
April 17, 2004 Saturday
SECTION: NATIONAL POLITICAL NEWS
LENGTH: 760 words
HEADLINE: Bush's Week Shows the Power of Incumbency
BYLINE: JENNIFER LOVEN; Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY:
Relaxing at his Texas ranch, President Bush stayed out of sight while Iraq grew bloodier and Washington swirled with questions about his pre-Sept. 11 actions. Democrats began to ask where was the president at such a crucial moment. Even Republicans started to worry about Bush's absence.
Questions about Iraq and the Sept. 11 attacks could prove troublesome for Bush's re-election campaign. The president's handling of Iraq and the fight against terrorism are central themes of his campaign, and polls show that public confidence in how he has dealt with both has dropped recently.
April 13, 2004 Tuesday
SECTION: WASHINGTON DATELINE
LENGTH: 771 words
HEADLINE: Bushes, Cheneys Reaped Tax Benefits
BYLINE: JENNIFER LOVEN; Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY:
President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney reaped tax benefits last year from the cuts that they pushed through Congress and that Democrats have criticized as a boon to the rich.
The government's top two executives, both wealthy men, paid smaller shares of their income in federal taxes in 2003 than in the year before, according to returns released Tuesday by the White House.
April 13, 2004, Tuesday, BC cycle
SECTION: Washington Dateline
LENGTH: 774 words
HEADLINE: Bushes, Cheneys pay smaller share of 2003 income in federal taxes than year before
BYLINE: By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY:
...Cheney saved $11,000, mostly because the alternative minimum tax - designed to curb tax sheltering among high-income taxpayers - took back about three-quarters of the tax-cut benefit he would have reaped, McIntyre said.
Among the cuts that were in effect in 2003 but not in effect in 2002 were further decreases in tax rates at all bracket levels, an expansion of the lowest 10 percent bracket and lower taxation of capital gains and dividends.
"What can you say? They're rich, so you'd expect them to benefit from a tax cut for the rich," McIntyre said.
Bush sees the tax cuts passed on his watch much differently. He has traveled the country touting them as the reason the economy is rebounding and likes to espouse his philosophy that cuts should go to all.
"I insisted, on the tax relief, we cut the rates on everybody who pays taxes," Bush said in El Dorado, Ark., last week. "Some of them howled up in Washington when I did that. See, my attitude is, government ought not to play favorites."
Most of the income for Bush and his wife, Laura, came from his $397,264 is presidential income and $401,803 in interest from trusts that hold their assets, plus $23,417 in dividend income.
Cheney and his wife had more varied sources of earnings, including the vice president's $198,600 government salary; the $178,437 he earned in deferred compensation from Halliburton Co., the Dallas-based energy services firm he headed until Aug. 16, 2000; capital gains of $302,602, Mrs. Cheney's income from work at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based think tank; and compensation from her service on the Reader's Digest board of directors in 2003.
Mrs. Cheney also brought in $327,643 in royalties from her books, "America: A Patriotic Primer," "A is for Abigail" and soon-to-be-out "Fifty States." The Cheneys donated almost all of those proceeds to charity. The couple also earned $627,005 in interest that was exempt from taxes.
Halliburton has been awarded as much as $6 billion in contracts in postwar Iraq but has been under scrutiny for allegedly overcharging the government. Cheney elected in 1998 to recoup over five years a fixed portion of the money he made in 1999 as the company's chief executive officer.
Cheney's office has repeatedly stated that the vice president doesn't have a financial stake in the success of Halliburton nor has had any involvement in defense contracts...
-T
April 9, 2004, Friday, BC cycle
SECTION: Political News
LENGTH: 817 words
HEADLINE: WASHINGTON TODAY: Bush - normally "Mr. Brevity" - tending lately toward the loquacious
BYLINE: By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY:
Looks like that yawning boy in Florida may have been on to something when he struggled to stay awake during a recent President Bush speech.
Bush, his rhetoric best known for the occasional syntax mangle and terse, my-way-or-the-highway one-liners...
-T
April 1, 2004, Thursday, BC cycle
SECTION: State and Regional
LENGTH: 673 words
HEADLINE: Bush signs bill making it a crime to harm a fetus
BYLINE: By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY:
Accompanied by grieving families, President Bush on Thursday signed into law new protections for the unborn that for the first time make it a separate federal crime to harm a fetus during an assault on the mother.
"If the crime is murder and the unborn child's life ends, justice demands a full accounting under the law," Bush said before signing the measure, a major priority for many of the president's most loyal political supporters. "The suffering of two victims can never equal only one offense."
Abortion-rights proponents, meanwhile, called the measure an assault on reproductive freedom because it represents the first recognition of federal legal rights for an embryo or fetus as a person separate from the woman.
An exuberant audience of abortion foes cheered the president during his remarks...
-T
http://www.idsnews.com/profile.php?byline=Jennifer+Loven
Section: World
Published: Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Bush agreed Tuesday to do what he had insisted for weeks he would not: allow National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to testify publicly and under oath before an independent panel investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Bush appeals for tighter WMD controlSection: World
Published: Thursday, February 12, 2004
Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Bush, pointing to a black market weapons network led by the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, said Wednesday no new countries should have the ability to enrich or process nuclear material. He argued international efforts to combat the spread of weapons of mass destruction have been neither broad nor effective enough and require tougher action from all nations. "The greatest threat before humanity today is the possibility of secret and sudden attack with chemical or biological or radiological or nuclear weapons," Bush said.
President got first heads-up of capture Saturday afternoonSection: World
Published: Friday, December 12, 2003
Summary: WASHINGTON -- President Bush first learned that Saddam Hussein may have been captured on Saturday afternoon, and was given confirmation of the most sought-after prize in the Iraq war early Sunday, a senior administration official said. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called the president, who was spending part of the weekend at his Camp David retreat in Maryland, around midday Saturday to deliver the news of the raid's possible success.
Bush urges a stop in financial supportSection: World
Published: Thursday, June 12, 2003
Summary: CHICAGO -- President Bush deplored Wednesday's bus bombing in Jerusalem and urged all nations to block financial assistance to the Palestinian militant group Hamas and similar organizations and "isolate those who hate so much that they are willing to kill to stop peace."
Bush builds postwar supportSection: World
Published: Friday, May 9, 2003
Summary: WASHINGTON -- A day before kicking off another U.N. battle over Iraq, President Bush tried to build support Thursday for his postwar goals, filling the White House with leaders of countries allied behind the U.S.-led military campaign.
Bush says diplomacy has only "weeks, not months"Section: World
Published: Thursday, January 30, 2003
Summary: WASHINGTON - President Bush, moving toward a decision on war with Iraq, said Thursday he will give diplomacy "weeks not months" and said the United States would welcome Saddam Hussein going into exile. "For the sake of peace, this issue must be resolved," the president said amid intensified administration efforts to increase pressure on reluctant U.S. allies to disarm Saddam.
Bush signs Iraqi war resolutionSection: World
Published: Thursday, October 17, 2002
Summary: WASHINGTON -- President Bush on Wednesday signed Congress' war-making resolution and told wary world leaders to "face up to our global responsibilities" to confront Saddam Hussein.
More corporate reforms neededSection: World
Published: Thursday, August 1, 2002
Summary: WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan chorus of critics on Wednesday questioned the extent of President Bush's support for protecting corporate whistle-blowers who expose cooked books or mislead investors.
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Jennifer Loven? Sounds like a porn actress.
The site "OpenSecrets.org" shows her husband has long time financial ties to John Kerry as far back as 2001.
http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?NumOfThou=0&txtName=ballentine&txtState=DC&txtZip=&txtEmploy=&txtCand=&txt2004=Y&txt2002=Y&txt2000=Y&Order=N
This is clearly a conflict of interest and a violation of AP ethics rules.
She has to go. We can't have the AP again shilling for the Kerry campaign when CPR rules allow only the press to escape FEC rules on spending in the last 60 days before the election.
***Roger Ballentine, Clinton's deputy assistant for environmental initiatives***
August 12, 1999
SECTION: SPOTLIGHT STORY
LENGTH: 265 words
HEADLINE: ALTERNATIVE FUELS: CLINTON TO ISSUE BIOMASS EXECUTIVE ORDER
BODY:
Pres. Clinton is expected to issue an executive order today
to triple the amount of energy produced from farm products, crop
wastes and trees by 2010.
The Clinton administration plans to develop proposals for
research grants and tax credits to promote such technologies and
phase out coal, oil, natural gas and uranium. The order will
instruct the Agriculture Dept., Energy Dept. and US EPA to write
plans to coordinate research and create markets to nurture
"renewable technologies."
The White House predicts that developing more uses for
agricultural products will result in up to $20 billion in
additional farm income by 2010 and less reliance on foreign oil.
Roger Ballentine, Clinton's deputy assistant for environmental
initiatives: "We're looking at taking things we currently just
throw away, making them profitable, fighting global warming and
cleaning the environment at the same time."
VP Al Gore said the initiative would "help insure that the
agricultural economy is part of the new economy." Companies
working with the federal government this year say electricity
can be made from natural materials on a cost-effective basis
with a reduction in pollution. And some agricultural companies
said they expect "big markets" if they can make new products
that have environmental benefits at equal costs.
Robert R. Dorsch, director of biotechnology development at
DuPont: "We need to go from black gold to green gold" (Matthew
L. Wald, New York Times, Aug. 12). -- DIL
LOAD-DATE: August 12, 1999
bumparooski........
***The American Council for Renewable Energy (ACRE) Other co-chairs are Dan Reicher, Roger Ballentine, and Judy Siegel.
June 12, 2002, Wednesday
SECTION: WASHINGTON DATELINE
DISTRIBUTION: TO BUSINESS, ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS
LENGTH: 839 words
HEADLINE: New Renewable Energy Council Invites U.S. Leadership to Convene; Senator Bingaman and Other National Leaders to Speak
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, June 12
BODY:
The American Council for Renewable Energy (ACRE) has invited the leadership of the U.S. renewable energy community to convene for a two-day meeting on July 10-11, 2002 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington DC. The purpose of the meeting is to charter a new national strategy to "take renewable energy to the next level" in the U.S.
"ACRE is unique as a group that covers all forms of renewable energy, and brings together the current and future leadership of this community," said Hank Habicht, co-chair for the conference. Other co-chairs are Dan Reicher, Roger Ballentine, and Judy Siegel. Registrants include individuals from industry, service firms, end users, utilities, green power marketers, associations, government, finance, law, research organizations, foundations, environmental and other nonprofit groups, the media and others.
FR helped knockdown Dan Rather and CBS. Now it's time for theAP and this reporter.
If anybody can get this thread to someone and National Review Online, that's a good place to start. They picked up on the Rathergate stuff from here and other bloggers and folks like Rush, Hannity, and Drudge got it from FR and National Review Online I can almost guarantte it.
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Following the sale of their Georgetown home, Roger Ballentine and Jennifer Loven again chose Nancy Taylor Bubes to represent them. Thanks to Bubes’ skill as a selling agent the Ballentines now reside in in what can only be described as a Chevy Chase classic, complete with a front porch swing, a beautiful yard and a white picket fence. The charming house has an updated kitchen, three bedrooms and a finished basement. The Ballentines purchased the property at 3625 Raymond Street for $735,000 from Jen Roberti and Robert Naddelman who were represented by Muffin Lynham of W.C. & A.N. Miller.
*** Is this Jennifer Loven using the AP to push a Clinton initiative? Was Loven's husband still chairman of the White House Climate Change Task Force when she wrote this article? Is there a conflict of interest here?
-T
January 13, 2000; Thursday 5:34 PM Eastern Time
SECTION: Washington - general news
LENGTH: 397 words
HEADLINE: Clinton Wants Biofuel Production
BYLINE: JENNIFER LOVEN
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY:
Aiming to replace fossil fuels with cleaner, renewable energy sources, President Clinton is proposing to more than double federal spending on efforts to turn corn husks, chicken droppings and other waste into power for cars and buildings, White House officials said Thursday.
In his fiscal 2001 budget request to Congress next month, Clinton will ask for $439 million to fund research and grants to aid the production of ''bioenergy'' and other products such as plastics and chemicals created from agricultural waste.
That is $243 million more than the $196 million Congress approved for similar efforts in the current year, said Paul Bledsoe, spokesman for the White House Climate Change Task Force.
The administration hopes to boost the commercial viability of alternative fuels such as ethanol toward the president's goal, set in August, of tripling bio-based energy use by 2010. The key is producing the fuel from agricultural waste or specialty crops such as switchgrass in addition to using grain, such as the corn kernels from which ethanol is primarily made now.
The administration also envisions the use of such waste as an energy source itself, without conversion into a liquid gasoline additive.
Supporters say there are four key benefits: reducing dirty emissions that contribute to global warming; turning waste into marketable products; lowering American dependence on foreign oil; and boosting the struggling farm economy with a new income stream.
''These technologies allow us to use the whole plant, and that is the huge breakthrough,'' Bledsoe said. ''What were formerly known as waste products now have significant market value.''
Biomass energy, generated mostly from lumberyard waste, is currently about 3 percent of the total U.S. energy supply.
A spokesman for GOP Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, said new congressional authority may be needed for some of what Clinton wants to do. Still, he welcomed the president's commitment to the promotion of bioenergy.
''There have been major breakthroughs in the technology,'' Andy Fisher said. ''So this is sort of the right time to strike.''
Lugar has his own legislation promoting ''biomass'' development that would authorize $300 million over six years for research. Approved in the Senate, it has received a cooler reception in the House.
LOAD-DATE: January 13, 2000
That's an awful lot of money for someone who works for a supposedly "non-profit" organization. Does the IRS know about this?
Just do what we all do. Ignore the biased biatch. Most people in this country obviously do haha
Okay I got it about Jennifer Loven and the AP. I have emailed the AP and said so. That doesn't stop anything. This kind of nonsense needs "universal exposure" like CBS.
Reporters such as this person needs to be exposed big time and their media organization also. Nearly all news print relies upon the AP (too lazy to do leg work themselves). It is the AP here that is to blame, or so it seems to me.
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