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Obama's pick for No. 2 spot at EPA withdraws
Associated Press ^ | March 25, 2009 | DINA CAPPIELLO

Posted on 03/25/2009 2:27:50 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's pick for the No. 2 post at the Environmental Protection Agency is removing himself from consideration.

Jon Cannon, a professor of environmental law at the University of Virginia, says he is withdrawing as the nominee for deputy EPA administrator because of scrutiny surrounding the America's Clean Water Foundation.

(Excerpt) Read more at silive.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: acwf; bho44; bhoepa; cannon; clean; ecoterrorists; foundation; greencrooks; greenmachine; joncannon; uva; water
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To: wombtotomb

Oh, by the way - my post about the holocaust was pulled, because I used bad language to describe the perps.

Hit abuse all you want, I really don’t care.


61 posted on 03/25/2009 6:45:23 PM PDT by patton (If Hawai'i seccedes, is Barack Obama still an illegal alien?)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...
Jon Cannon, a professor of environmental law at the University of Virginia, says he is withdrawing as the nominee for deputy EPA administrator because of scrutiny surrounding the America's Clean Water Foundation.

62 posted on 03/25/2009 6:46:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: patton

It isn’t that at all. I just believe that a person who has to resort to taking the Lords name in vain to make a point, has lost the argument.


63 posted on 03/25/2009 6:48:30 PM PDT by wombtotomb
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To: wombtotomb

As you wish, Served a lot of time as a paratrooper, did you?


64 posted on 03/25/2009 6:52:34 PM PDT by patton (If Hawai'i seccedes, is Barack Obama still an illegal alien?)
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To: patton

LOL, no. Mom of three, devout catholic is all. I do appreciate it, and I did not mean to disrepect you. I just like the fact that this site is so not like DU or the others.


65 posted on 03/25/2009 6:58:03 PM PDT by wombtotomb
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To: Free ThinkerNY

How many is THAT now?? I’ve lost count.


66 posted on 03/25/2009 6:58:42 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Christian and armed)
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To: maggief

The Obama Administration keeps trying to hire LOOTERS and CRIMINALS that will go along with their LOOTER EMPIRE...yet..even the looters are jumping the sinking ship!

That should tell us all something. The cavalry is coming and they know it instinctively...like all rats do(except Nazi Pelosi, Reid and the rest of the hard marxists).


67 posted on 03/25/2009 7:01:34 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: wombtotomb

Many of us use bad language, to describe bad things. Doesn’t mean we are bad people.

I will freepmail you the concentration camp story.

You read it, you decide.


68 posted on 03/25/2009 7:04:17 PM PDT by patton (If Hawai'i seccedes, is Barack Obama still an illegal alien?)
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To: patton

Thats fine. I do not have a problem with salty language. That is free expression. It crosses the line with blasphemy. I have used swear words here and there. There is a line, much like we have freedom of speech, yet cannot yell fire in a crowded theater. Some words just shouldn’t be said in combination, and God and da#& are two of them.


69 posted on 03/25/2009 7:08:21 PM PDT by wombtotomb
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To: wombtotomb

Read your mail.


70 posted on 03/25/2009 7:13:41 PM PDT by patton (If Hawai'i seccedes, is Barack Obama still an illegal alien?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

No, Cannon withdrew because the anti-gun activists were offended by his name.


71 posted on 03/25/2009 7:44:25 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Change! Hope!

Right now I'm hoping for a little pocket change.

72 posted on 03/25/2009 8:06:19 PM PDT by Taxbilly
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To: hinckley buzzard

EPA has always been a mixed bag. Some good people and programs; some dumb as dog crap and wacko.

Time for the Inspector General over there to get off of his/her ass and do a real proctological inspection of the EPA. Under Browner and some of the other ecofreaks now in the Administration, things are going to become unreal.

PS: I’ve been in the environmental cleanup arena for almost 20 years and I’m fearful that the looney tunes are going to destroy the good work that we have done.


74 posted on 03/25/2009 9:13:17 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Taxbilly

Taxbilly: You may be hoping for a little pocket change. I’m just hoping for pants (with pockets). I don’t look good in barrels.


75 posted on 03/25/2009 9:15:28 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: caseinpoint
With those qualifications he should probably just run for Congress.

LoL!

76 posted on 03/25/2009 9:23:09 PM PDT by relee ('Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

At the rate he’s going, the President has a 50% chance of getting all his people in place by November 6,2012.


77 posted on 03/25/2009 9:59:12 PM PDT by jmcenanly
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To: Henchster
Please start an accompanying list of those who declined, and why...

"Tax evasion"
"Tax issues"
"forgot to pay taxes"
"mishandled grant money
"Too stupid to come in out of the rain"

78 posted on 03/25/2009 10:01:08 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

well he may as well just put all of Greenpeace in there because they are pulling all the stops out


79 posted on 03/25/2009 10:04:28 PM PDT by KTM rider (the War On Terror has been superceeded by the War On Capitalism)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

‘mismanaged $25 million in EPA grants’ That sounds like the man for the job.


80 posted on 03/25/2009 10:13:13 PM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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