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Wednesday, January 12, 2005
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Radio Userland
Radio 8 shipped 3 years ago today.
6:58:18 PM 
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2004 Presidential Transition
TalkLeft: "Third Circuit Appeals Judge Michael Chertoff is President Bush's new pick for homeland security chief. Chertoff was a Bush nominee to the Court."
6:17:22 AM
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Iraqi Election
Coyote Gulch normally limits his coverage of elections to those that Denver voters will participate in. However, here's the list of lists for the January 30th Iraqi elections from Juan Cole. You gotta love the Internet.
6:11:14 AM
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2008 Presidential Election
Howard Dean announced his candidacy for the Chair of the Democratic National Committee yesterday. Here's the text of his announcement. Denver Democrats must feel like they are in a alternate universe where Wellington Webb is squaring off against Howard Dean.
Meanwhile Dean's old campaign manager, Joe Trippi, is endorsing Simon Rosenburg according to a Curious Stranger. The Stranger writes, "I hope Trippi is endorsing Rosenberg because he honestly believes he's the best candidate, and not because he's a bit bitter towards Dean. I'm sure there will be plenty of stories appearing in the near future explaining away this endorsement, but if it is heartfelt, this is a real coup for Rosenberg."
Update:TalkLeft: "I've now participated in blogger conference calls with both Simon Rosenberg and Howard Dean. They are my two favorite candidates for Chair of the DNC. Both appreciate the importance of grass roots activism and the ability of the Internet to empower people and bring them into the political process. Both emphasize the importance of diversity and the politics of inclusion. Both stress the need to focus on local and state political races and organizations."
6:00:54 AM
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Colorado Water
Not everyone is happy in Animas-LaPlata land. Here's an opinion piece, written by Phil Doe, the chairman of the Citizens Progressive Alliance, from today's Rocky Mountain News [January 12, 2005, "Speakout: You, I will foot Animas-La Plata bill"]. He writes, "For instance, Sen. Pete Domenici of New Mexico inserted a rider that forgives any repayment from Animas-La Plata project backers of $162 million in recent cost overruns, thus ending the Reagan-era policy requiring developers to pay a significant portion of any federal water project. Former Colorado Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, the Animas-La Plata project's chief sugar daddy, had already forgiven all but a sliver of the original cost estimate of $338 million in earlier legislation. The Domenici and Campbell giveaways of public money to Animas-La Plata special interests have been accommodated through the massive fiction that the project is going to cost a piddling $500 million. That's a lot to you and me, but not to the folks who can pass a $388 billion spending bill without reading it. The truth is the $500 million merely covers the construction costs of the project. Missing from this calculation is the interest taxpayers will have to pay on this debt over the expected 100-year life of the project. It will be in the billions of dollars. Also missing is the $50 million guesstimated for the Gallup Pipeline and $13 million for high-capacity power lines to the project pumping plant in Durango. Domenici has already tabbed us for the former, and the feds are laundering the latter so that it doesn't show up on project books."
5:41:18 AM
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