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  • Wannabe ‘Climate Mayor’ Bankrolled by Dad With Massive Carbon Footprint

    05/31/2021 4:35:46 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 9 replies
    New York Post ^ | May 31, 2021 | Julia Marsh
    Former Obama housing secretary Shaun Donovan says he’d be “the climate mayor,” but his multimillionaire dad, who’s funding his long-shot City Hall bid, is the opposite of an environmental steward. Michael Donovan — who has given $6.8 million through a super PAC, making him the single largest donor in the entire mayoral race — owns three homes, a gas-guzzling private jet, and once destroyed wetlands in front of his $18 million Bridgehampton estate. “If candidates are taking money from polluters, they are making a big mistake because people suffer,” said Maritza Silva-Farrell, head of the New York umbrella environmental group...
  • NYT: In Canada, Acting Out Contempt for Bush and His Policies Wasn't Viewed as Funny (C. Parrish)

    11/22/2004 4:29:03 PM PST · by OESY · 39 replies · 2,462+ views
    New York Times ^ | November 22, 2004 | IAN AUSTEN
    For the first time, a government official may have lost her position because of comedy. Last week, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin removed Carolyn Parrish, a member of Parliament from suburban Toronto, after he saw video of her stomping on a George W. Bush action figure in a segment of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's popular satirical news program, "This Hour Has 22 Minutes." The episode also sparked some trouble within the government-owned CBC, because the news service broadcast the sketch as a news story before it was even aired on "22 Minutes." According to Ruth-Ellen Soles, a spokeswoman for the...