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GOVERNOR RACICOT'S ALLEGATIONS RE FLORIDA MANUAL RECOUNT Here are excerpts of Gov. Racicot's statement to the press Saturday afternoon in Austin, Texas: "We now have clear and and convincing evidence, in fact, in my judgment it's beyond that, that in Palm Beach County and Broward County the hand counting of the ballots that is ongoing is not only fundamentally flawed, it is becoming completely untrustworthy....." "First of all, there's the taping of chads to ballots. We have observers in Florida who have noted and they have completed affidavits that a taped chad has been taped over the hole where the ...

Vice President Gore says it is time to respect the will of the people. In 1994, the people of California passed Proposition 187 by a 59% majority. Five years later, Governor Gray Davis killed Proposition 187 by refusing to allow it to be tested in the Supreme Court. Following the lead of Gray Davis, Florida Governor Jeb Bush should settle the election issue by mediation. Just as did Governor Davis, he should appoint only those who oppose Vice President Gore to the mediation panel and refuse to allow any dissention. In California, Democrats confronted the will of the people ...

November 9, 2000 | Thursday afternoon the Bush campaign scrambled frantically to seize the presidency as it came closer to slipping out of its hands. Cabinet appointments were announced, plans for a victory celebration were underway, and old Bush associates were called in to lend an air of authority. The rush was necessary because of two breaking scandals now nipping at Bush's heels that could ultimately render him ineligible for the office or heavily damaged as president. Bush has been accused of a deception in a Texas jury questionnaire that has been characterized as perjury. He is also under fire ...

News from the Front #35: Speech to the Oregon Public Power Association: the Moral Responsibilities of Public Power The first part of this speech was my standard extemporaneous presentation, with an emphasis on using Government data to demonstrate that the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on spill and flow programs that do not work. The second part of the speech, reproduced below, focuses on the unique history and responsibility of public power interests, developments at BPA that threaten the constituents of public power, how public power officials have failed to protect the power system ...

Institute Sues President Clinton Over Junk Science Washington, DC, October 5, 2000 - The Competitive Enterprise Institute announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against President William J. Clinton. Joining CEI as co-plaintiffs are Representatives Joseph Knollenberg (R-MI) and Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO), Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), Consumer Alert, 60 Plus Association, and David Wojick. The parties seek the federal court in Washington, D.C., to declare a $14 million compilation of global warming scare stories as unlawfully produced in violation of three federal laws. The document in question is the National Assessment Synthesis Report, or "National Assessment on Climate ...

Water Rights Are Property Rights by David E. Haddock* Is meeting the water requirements of threatened and endangered fish the most important use for water? Many modern environmentalists claim it is. Even in the arid West, where many cities face water shortages, environmentalists claim that cities and farmers must do without if water is needed to support struggling fish populations. They claim it is better to let water benefit fish by running into the sea, than to let those who own water rights use it for domestic and agricultural purposes. Unfortunately, when private water rights are taken for fish ...

News from the Front #33: Gore Campaign Memo Promises to Breach Dams--or Does It? Friday's Oregonian contained a typical example of media coverage of the Gore campaign, as the Republicans caught Gore making extremist promises to the environmentalists, and the Gore operatives successfully spun the event as Republicans "twisting the truth". Gore's promises are contained in a fifteen-page memorandum addressed to "Friends of the Earth Action" on Gore 2000 campaign stationary. It begins with Gore "sharing with you my priorities for our environment--and my agenda to make the next decade the Environmental Decade". Gore then commits to all sorts of ...

News from the Front #31: The Downward Spiral Continues: Governors Demand Back-to-Nature Salmon Plan and Council Obliges In 1980, Congress punted fish and wildlife management questions raised by operation of dams in the Columbia River Basin to the Northwest Power Planning Council, a four-state interstate compact formed by Oregon, Washington, Montana and Idaho. Congress charged the Council to develop a fish and wildlife program consisting of specific "measures to protect, mitigate and enhance fish and wildlife affected by the development, operation and management" of hydroelectric projects on the Columbia River and its tributaries, and declared that federal agencies should follow ...

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FROM PEOPLE FOR THE USA, COLOR COUNTRY CHAPTER KANE COUNTY COMMISSION CONSIDERS SIGNING CONTROVERSIAL BLM ROAD PROPOSAL ON GRAND STAIRCASE ESCALANTE NATIONAL MONUMENT CONTACT: TERRIL HONEY 435-644-5877 MIKE NOEL 435-644-3996 On Wednesday night August 23rd, a group of Kane County citizens announced their strong concerns over a motion by the Kane County Commissioners on August 14th to negotiate and sign a new road agreement with the BLM to resolve road and access issues within the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument (GSENM). This monument was designated by President Clinton in a surprise move in 1996. The ...

Meet Mr. Massacre Once US Diplomat William Walker Covered them Up; and Now He Makes them Up Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi Years from now, when the war in Serbia is over and the dust has settled, historians will point to January 15, 1999 as the day the American Death Star became fully operational. That was the date on which an American diplomat named William Walker brought his OSCE war crimes verification team to a tiny Kosovar village called Racak to investigate an alleged Serb massacre of ethnic Albanian peasants. After a brief review of the town's 40-odd bullet-ridden corpses, ...

Forest Service Under Fire Agency Faces Suit over Fires, Failure to Protect Species By Donna M. Kemp and Gib Twyman Deseret News staff writers Timber groups have borrowed a tactic from environmentalists — suing the federal government for not protecting endangered species. Six Utah county governments and the Independent Forest Productions Association, based in Portland, Ore., have joined a Montana forester to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service, saying the lack of timber harvesting is negatively impacting endangered species. In an ironic twist to the ongoing battle between timber interests and the government, Juab, Millard, ...

Forest Service Under Fire Agency Faces Suit over Fires, Failure to Protect Species By Donna M. Kemp and Gib Twyman Deseret News staff writers Timber groups have borrowed a tactic from environmentalists — suing the federal government for not protecting endangered species. Six Utah county governments and the Independent Forest Productions Association, based in Portland, Ore., have joined a Montana forester to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service, saying the lack of timber harvesting is negatively impacting endangered species. In an ironic twist to the ongoing battle between timber interests and the government, Juab, Millard, ...

Forest Service Under Fire Agency Faces Suit over Fires, Failure to Protect Species By Donna M. Kemp and Gib Twyman Deseret News staff writers Timber groups have borrowed a tactic from environmentalists — suing the federal government for not protecting endangered species. Six Utah county governments and the Independent Forest Productions Association, based in Portland, Ore., have joined a Montana forester to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service, saying the lack of timber harvesting is negatively impacting endangered species. In an ironic twist to the ongoing battle between timber interests and the government, Juab, Millard, ...

Forest Service Under Fire Agency Faces Suit over Fires, Failure to Protect Species By Donna M. Kemp and Gib Twyman Deseret News staff writers Timber groups have borrowed a tactic from environmentalists — suing the federal government for not protecting endangered species. Six Utah county governments and the Independent Forest Productions Association, based in Portland, Ore., have joined a Montana forester to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service, saying the lack of timber harvesting is negatively impacting endangered species. In an ironic twist to the ongoing battle between timber interests and the government, Juab, Millard, ...

Forest Service Under Fire Agency Faces Suit over Fires, Failure to Protect Species By Donna M. Kemp and Gib Twyman Deseret News staff writers Timber groups have borrowed a tactic from environmentalists — suing the federal government for not protecting endangered species. Six Utah county governments and the Independent Forest Productions Association, based in Portland, Ore., have joined a Montana forester to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service, saying the lack of timber harvesting is negatively impacting endangered species. In an ironic twist to the ongoing battle between timber interests and the government, Juab, Millard, ...

News from the Front #29: The Downward Spiral Continues: NMFS Releases Draft Biological Opinion on Columbia Basin Water Projects On July 27, 2000, the National Marine Fisheries Service issued a draft biological opinion on the operation of the Federal Columbia River Power System, 31 projects operated by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, and the juvenile salmon transportation program. The full opinion, including all appendices, takes more than a ream of paper to print. As a utility lawyer told me last week, “this thing is going to make dam breaching look cheap by comparison”. While the Clinton/Gore Administration may be taking ...

Source: University Of Arizona http://www.arizona.edu Contact: Lori Stiles , Public Information Officer Phone: (520) 626-4402; Email: lstiles@u.arizona.edu Date: Posted 6/8/1999 Gone But Not Forgotten: Bring Back North American Elephants Contact Information: Paul S. Martin 520-629-9459 (lab) or 520-792-3406 (home) pmartin@geo.arizona.edu Writer: Melanie Lenart for UA News Services) TUCSON, ARIZ. -- Many an imagination has been enchanted by visions of wild America reconstructed by writers and painters of old. A few imaginative people, such as University of Arizona geosciences Professor Emeritus Paul S. Martin, go beyond this by encouraging a restocking of modern-day plains with animals of the past. Martin envisions ...

U.S. Rep. Helen Chenoweth-Hage Boise, Idaho July 28, 2000 Mr. Jim Nicholson Chairman Republican National Committee 310 First St., S.E. Washington, D.C. 20003 Dear Jim, As a Member of Congress who won a seat against an incumbent Democrat and then held onto it through two very aggressive campaigns and as a former executive director of my own state's party, I felt moved to send this open letter to you. It is a plea for our party to focus on the substance of issues rather than on the superficial in the upcoming election. This seemed an appropriate time to make this ...

The Russian General Prosecutor's Office allowed the Director of "Media-MOST" holding Vladimir Gusinsky to leave the country, Interfax news agency reported. Gusinsky's lawyer Pavel Astakhov says that the case has been finally closed. The accusation and the order for the confiscation of Gusinsky's property were withdrawn. According to radio "Ekho Moskvy" he immediately flew to Spain, where his family is staying. However, the Chief of the high-profile investigation department at theGeneral Prosecutor's Office Vladimir Lyseiko denied the information that Gusinsky's case was given up. "We are still investigating the case," said Lyseiko to RIA "Novosti". At the same time, Lyseiko ...

News from the Front #28: Enemies of the Salmon Revolution:  Dr. Koenings' War on Washington Meet Dr. Jeff P. Koenings, Director of Washington's Department of Fish and Wildlife.  Why do I single out Dr. Koenings for special attention?  Happenstance, really.  He's no worse than an army of other fish bureaucrats extending their empires at the expense of Northwest citizens.  But his handiwork happens to have crossed my desk three times in the month of May.   First, on May 18, 2000, Dr. Koenings declared that Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife "believe[s] the flow targets set by NMFS in their Biological ...