Team Coverage: Interviewing Obama supporters; including Obama's Madison Obamican
Post by Jesse Russell on 2/13/2008 10:05am
Last night Illinois Senator Barack Obama packed the Kohl Center as he gave his Potomac Primary victory speech. But before that hardcore Obama supporters began lining up four hours before the event. I headed over to the Kohl Center at 2:30 with Pixelated Imagination's Mark Sadowski and did a short interview with two of them. At that hour roughly 30 supporters were in line. One drove all the way from Milwaukee to catch the Democratic Presidential candidate and the other would go on to be singled out later in the night as an "Obamican" (a Republican supporting Obama) and receive a special nod from the Senator.
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Obama's campaign funding...
Submitted by jasen on Sun, 2008-02-17 01:45.
Obama's second largest single source of funding is from exelon corporatio. They are the largest company in the US nuclear energy industry. The are currently being sued for radioactive contamination of groundwater resources in a community south of chicago, and have had a history of this at many of their planys. Obama voted for the 2005 energy bill that gave the nuclear industry (as well as oil companies) huge subsidies and incentives. Obama thinks that nuclear energy is part of the solution to climate change. The entire nuclear cycle is anything but carbon free or renewable. From uranium mining and milling, to infrastructure and waste transport, there is massive pollution every step of the way. Every cent of tax funded handouts to the nuclear industry is a cent not going to real renewable energy solutions to climate change and energy independance.
All the information
Submitted by Jesse Russell on Sun, 2008-02-17 10:01.
Just so Dane101 readers have all of the information the Washington Post has fact-checked this: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/02/obamas_backroom_deal.html?hpid=topnews
Although Obama had initially introduced the legislation, Inhofe had the decisive say on whether it would move forward. Two other Democratic senators on the committee, Barbara Boxer (CA), and Richard Durbin (IL), said that Obama had little choice except to go along with Inhofe, in order to keep his legislation alive. Both scoffed at Clinton's claims of a "backroom deal" between Obama and Exelon.
"The choice came down to no bill or a weaker bill," said Boxer, who said she is "neutral" in the presidential campaign. "Barack tried desperately to get it through, but got the best thing he could."
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