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The many REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL after Election Day 2008
After casting her ballot for Barack Obama, Amanda Jones said simply, "I feel good about voting for him." Ms. Jones, of Cedar Creek, Texas (a town just south of Austin), is African-American, and what gives her vote some historic punch is that she's 109 years old. Her father was a slave. Her mother was born right after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. She's been through it all--Jim Crow segregation, women's suffrage, the Great Depression, the poll tax, FDR, the civil-rights movement, desegregation, 13 years of George W (five as guv, eight as prez), and now: Barack Obama. This last change fills her with joy, she says.
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The wlf goes inside
The Washington Legal Foundation is a corporate front group that specializes in clogging the courts and administrative agencies with tons of legal filings that are anti-consumer, anti-worker, and anti-environment.
WLF lawyers have recently intervened in auto-safety lawsuits on behalf of Honda and Goodyear; they tried to prevent financial punishment of Exxon for its catastrophic Valdez oil spill; and they stood up for the Brown & Williamson tobacco company in a case against the FDA. They also are major proponent of corporate "civil liberties" and "free speech."
This consummate anti-government outsider has quietly become an insider, as George W. Bush—who also embraces all things corporate—has placed many WLFers in key positions.
Cabinet members John Ashcroft, Gale Norton, Tommy Thompson, and Spencer Abraham serve on WLF advisory boards, and Energy Secretary Abraham and Interior Secretary Norton are also listed as "educational program speakers" for this cozy corporate club. Attorney General Ashcroft also is staffing the Justice Department with WLF alums, including his deputy AG and his assistant AG for anti-trust.