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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 09:00 AM
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Looking at The Candidates Energy Policies - Sharpton
Sharpton's site does not appear to have anything pointing to an energy policy.

If someone else can find it, please post.
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gottaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 09:27 AM
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1. look at lcv profiles
They don't have much on Sharpton, but it's probabaly the best compendium you can find. lcv candidates guide.

Here's a general statement by the Rev. from the lcv candidates forum last summer:


SHARPTON: Well, first of all, let me join my colleagues in thanking the League for having this forum. As I said, I was a little late working my way through the smog to get here, which is why I want to be president, so we can have standards against that. But let me say we must not allow this administration to continue to use the bogeyman in every argument. They’ve used it to justify Iraq, they’re using it to try and do what they’re doing in the environment, and to try and stop us from moving from an oil-dependent economy. The fact of the matter is, to ask someone are they going to sacrifice their job for their health is like asking a drug addict are you going to sacrifice dope for your health. The fact of the matter is, we should not try and act as though we have a choice in terms of moving to what is more efficient, more healthy, more life-sustaining, and what is better for our grandchildren and their grandchildren. So to try and act like Americans are so cheap that we would rather be paid for something that is detrimental than to try and achieve the transfer into hybrid vehicles, and electric vehicles. Americans understand, if they are exposed to the facts, that where we are now will harm us. It will bring us to levels that we cannot sustain—the humanity of this country and the humanity of the world—and we ought not make false choices to them, with the bogeyman saying you got to hold onto your job, therefore choke yourself to death. I think as we build towards efficiency and health, we ought not tell people that the payoff is that they can get paid to kill themselves.



lcv presidential forum

BTW, I believe the League has endorsed John Kerry. I don't think you'll find much bias in their coverage, though.
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