LCV Buys Bush Staffers Tuna Sandwiches - "We Told Them Hold The Mercury"

[hatrack]

April 22 - PORTLAND - On the 34th anniversary of the first Earth Day, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) Thursday bought the Bush-Cheney campaign in Portland lunch. LCV sent tuna sandwiches over to the Bush campaign with a reassurance that LCV told the deli to "hold the mercury."

"We want to reassure the Bush-Cheney campaign staff that even though the Bush Administration continues to pursue policies that allow extensive toxic mercury pollution, which has been scientifically linked to tuna, these tuna sandwiches are safe to eat because we told the deli to 'hold the mercury,'" said Matt Blevins, OR State Campaign Director for the League of Conservation Voters.

"Now, we know that the Food and Drug Administration has warned pregnant women and children to limit the amount of tuna they eat so we felt obligated to put warning labels on each sandwich. But using Bush Administration spin and distorted science, we figured if a deli can 'hold the mayo,' maybe they could 'hold the mercury.'

"We all know that the reason the Bush Administration tossed out a Clinton Administration plan to drastically reduce mercury pollution is because of the influence of Bush Pioneer and Ranger campaign donors who are lobbyists and executives in the utility industry. In fact, the Bush EPA's proposed mercury rule was written by a revolving door utility industry lobbyist - sections of it verbatim from industry memos."

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http://www.bend.com/news/ar_view%5E3Far_id%5E3D15037.htm

[buddy22600]

1. lol

[Hobarticus]

2. Ten bucks says they didn't get the joke...

"Huh? Mercury? Didn't he sing for Queen?"

[baby_bear]

3. Thanks for the post, hatrack

Leavitt et al. would come back with, "But we've proposed cap and trade on mercury" as though that would work like with acid rain. David Brooks's column in the Tuesday NYTimes parroted that line (why does he even write about something he knows nothing of?), so send him a tuna sandwich on me.

Happy Earth Day, hatrack and all fellow denizens of this forum!!

s_m