From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Mon Jun 11 2001 - 07:16:39 MDT
Spike Jones wrote,
> For instance, they cite Red Davis
> petitioning the Clinkton administration to withdraw the requirement
> for ethanol additives, since Taxifornia fuel can meet air regs
> without it. The Clinkton people refused to take this action,
> for fear it would dump Iowa into the Bush camp in the 2000
> election, which the shrub lost by 5000 votes.
Strange, CNN had a very similar yet different story on Sunday. They said
that Davis asked the Bush administration to withdraw the requirement for
ethanol additives since California fuel can meet clean air regulations
without it. The Bush administration refused to take this action for fear it
would anger corn-growing states such as Iowa and push them into the
Democratic camp in the *next* election.
Are these two spins of the same story? Or did Davis really appeal to both
administrations and get turned down by both for the same political reasons?
Or did someone "revise" the story later? Or just plain misquote the same
source?
-- Harvey Newstrom <http://HarveyNewstrom.com> <http://Newstaff.com>
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