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But just three months after Bush's pledge, the Wall Street Journal now reports that the White House quietly added "a little-noticed provision" to the bill that allows companies to severely reduce - or almost completely terminate - their retirees' drug coverage "without losing out on the new subsidy." In other words, the president did not just break his promise to sign a bill that prevents seniors from losing their existing drug coverage. He actually acted to reward companies who cut off their retirees with a lavish new tax break.
The provision was no mere oversight by the president. The major backers of the provision were Lucent Technologies, General Motors, Dow Chemical and SBC Communications - all major campaign contributors to the president. According to the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics, executives from those companies have donated almost $140,000 in hard money and $2.5 million in soft money to Bush and his party since 2000.
Lucent hard money contributions to Bush since 2000: $14,415 Lucent soft money contributions to RNC since 2000: $27,000
Dow hard money contributions to Bush since 2000: $23,200 Dow soft money contributions to RNC since 2000: $631,354
GM hard money contributions to Bush since 2000: $92,050 GM soft money contributions to RNC since 2000: $95,260
SBC hard money contributions to Bush since 2000: $9,450 SBC soft money contributions to RNC since 2000: $1,762,206
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non-Oakland postings. I use them because no
other local papers cover these issues in any sort of depth.
PS If you have noticed a dramatic increase in the
number of typos in OaklandNews your eyes aren't failing you. My eyes are failing me and I can't afford prescription glasses. Costco and Dean Edells
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Here's a headline for you, nobody cares!
We want an Iggy rant! We want an Iggy rant!
Obviously, Iggy's sell out to Walmart makes him, Jean Quan and that Ice Cream guy from Piedmont Ave all worse then Hitler.
Oh yeah, and three story buildings. They are all MASSIVE.
Stop cramming this steamroller down the neighborhood's throat without notice. The traffic, shadows and noise impacts (your project's name here) will DESTROY our quality of life.
I'm happy to oblige, Larry. The new Black and White Liquor store at the corner of Fruitvale and E. 27th St., rammed down the throat of a neighborhood already rife with major drug dealing and other nuisance behavior on that corner. The store is owned by a political contributor of Iggy's, so I was hardly surprised to see the first Iggy for City Council signs I've seen in their windows. In flatland neighborhoods, there is a very obvious link between liquor stores and crime, and there are TWO liquor store on that corner, and according to the Planning Dept., legally there could be FOUR, one on each corner, because of a technicality that each corner of the intersection is in a different census tract.
Bonus rant: Henry Chang's signs read "A record of Service"- to whom? Pandas? Developers? Political contributors? Certainly not to the citizens of Oakland. I've never seen Henry Chang in any of the districts I've lived in (that would be 3,4,5 and 6)and he's been on the Council all that time, and he supposedly represents that entire city.
Satisfied, Larry?
Posted by: Jane Powell on January 14, 2004 02:53 PMYou have two more districts to move into before Henry's current (and hopefully last) term is up.
Make that three. Then you can live "at-large."
Posted by: George Cauldron on January 15, 2004 02:21 PMUnfortunately or fortunately I have given up moving around and will be staying here in lovely District 5 where I basically feel I have no representation at all.
If I'd known Beverly Blythe was such an idiot as to not get enough legitimate signatures, maybe I would have run, just to annoy Iggy.
Posted by: Jane Powell on January 15, 2004 09:44 PMWhat do we want?
Iggy rant!
When do we want it?
Now!
What do we want?
Iggy rant!!
When do we want it?
Now!
Iggy rant now! Iggy rant now!
Posted by: Larry Fine on January 16, 2004 10:37 AM
Oakland, Oakland, it's a hellovatown,
the gangsta's shoot up, and the citizens go down
the victims wind up in a whole in the ground
Oakland Oakland, it's a hellovatown!
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