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tion, and under the terms of a confidential-
-. i.td Perry are .remain-
ing tight-lipped. But this six-figure sum
was paid to Bei: to settle a lawsuit alleging
that the governor hid ST million; to illegal .
campaign contributions
The Perry campaign has spent the last
tefc. days.trying to make pohticaLnay out of
opponent Bill White.'* business dealings,
suggesting that White's profiting from a
■ once-»troggzng" ’A and gas company-
that a. Si million contribution from
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. r.cied.through the Republican Qiftertiers
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By then- Rick Perry was ______7
er..<onced in mvsccohd full terr, as g'/.er-
nor Fortunately for .Perry, the lawsuit drew
' relatively, httle notice,during the ensuing
months and years Eventually;.a settlement
was reached And Perry s campaign just
happened to pay Bel! on March 3 this year
■ one day after the governor defeated Kay
Bailey Hutchison in the (X)P pnmar-
Even then, the . ■■ kept pri-
vate Only last. week, when the governor
tiled his campaign finance report, were the
few available details made public
Uhat could have been an awfully messy
Perry The con
rldentiai settlement absolve* the governor's
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Anti Bel-h *ho will pocket the money per-
Pe’fiaps both,'parties to this lawsuit
;n. the: waning, days- of his 2D6fe campaign.
if.-ction shenanigans and
misdeeds often aremt.sorted out until long
after the votes have been cast — in this
v.i.'e. nearly tour years after, the polls
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to the work of pile Andrew
the \A \<‘P came under
White House, fearful of all
uiiuv ,uv.ai. -aw its week of policy sue-
cexDjerj-'.ci; iru: .cements of the media,
needing w till air time; were misled.
Most importantly, an innocent woman
■was smeared.
......There is enough crow
on the plates of nearly
everyone in
Washington to keep the
high and mighty eating
bird until fall, when it’s
time to carve the, turkey. .
: the story
nnWMA Tw.enry-feur vears ago,
OOA7ii c Shirlc> s-!:
□nAZILt member of the
Federation of Southern
. Cooperatives. Land Assistance Fund, an
organization that helped protect largely
minority-owned farms One day. a white
farmer. Roger Spooner, appeared before
her He, too. needed to have his home
. . .... .y----- ------- saved from the. .mortgage lender,
to both'reduce per-capi.U - However. Sherrod was conilicted
power consumption and Sherrod was Conflicted because so
many black farmers needed help. Yet
here she.wa.,. a black woman, expected
While other states are to help a white farmer. It didn’t feel right,
,nr,v >r.i helping this man when her own people
reeded her ir tar greater numbers
Ip order to understand this feeling, you
have to understand.Sherrod's world. It
was my world, too
Sherrod zrew up in ■ the. segregated.
. ..u <i,x_ ,v.. i-> „ ...u;,, man
already started a green power program-,
more than a decade ago
'"Austin . Energy was "radically ahead of
. r_. ..the .cune,"-said" Brewster, McCracken, a-
decided to pursue other strate- former member of the Austin City u< u* ciki^ pwuowii ioum. uk. ■ -
Council who now i, executive director of Pecan Street Project is being closely controversy
the project The Green Choice program watched and in some cases copied divert the public s attention from a more
oegun in 1999 was the first in the country Many of the things Austin pioneered
that gave customers an opportunity to buy are being adopted by other locations and
‘ - -u - utilities." Marston said.
Contact . McNeely at CdayettK--
neely 111 u gmail com or 512-458-2963,
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' • Join m the effort to develop and being on standby to provide natural gas
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power during times of lighter demand, to tolar supplies lag.
be used for peak periods. Another question , the project folks are
• Encourage use of rechargeable elec- studying is how. W balance efforts tocofi-
tnc cars and gas,batten hybrid vehicles. serve energy with making a profit — UJ^RL,U. Mwv-Wupi®uiv
• Lewen air pollution from traditional when the traditional means of pricing has media with a heavily edited video from
power plants that bum coal and lignite been the morS you use. the more you pay an anonymous source Skillfully cut. the
the cir< and state, ire capitaiizina on a Ohe posvihiljty ts to charge more for elec- video onlv showed Sheirmi savine that
know unique combination of circumstances that trietty at peak periods,
ast one rnajte the search for those solutions, if not Austin. .Energy , just, like the investor-
rhe solution., rhemveiv'es. simpler to pur- owned utilities, needs to make money
sue from its energy production, said Jtm
The City of Austin owns its own elec- Marston, who heads the Environmental
foe company, as it-does Its water cotnpa- Defense Fund's energy policy program
ny. so it is free to experiment with new and is a director of the Pecan Street . — ...
ideas It is a progressive city, and had Project. The city gets about 15 percent of the avalanche of reprimands, reproaches
—--------- :ts budget from the unbry / and blame .
"Austin Energy has to make a profit, or . Sherrod thought she had told a story to .
we lay off police and firefighters." demonstrate how she had overcome the
Marston said *?tas of her own experience Instead, she
In the energy ■ production ranks, the found herselt the center ot a rution.il
- - • . . onc 0e*ty coordinated to
serious and earnest conversation about
racism.
"I could care less about Shirley
Sherrtxl, to be honest with you," Andrew
Breitbart said Political veterans call this
"hardball" politics, where the lust for
power is so overpowering you can care
less who you trample, even if they’re
innocent.
Ho* and why this moral of her story in
that speech was missed entirely by the
news media, the Obama administration,
the NAACP and others is beyond me.
But what really angers me is a profes-
sional instigator out to get the NAACP
for calling on the leaders of the Tea Party
to repudiate any and all forms of racist
behavior or actions by their members
was the driving force behind both the
NAACP's and administration's reactions.
Shirley Sherrod and the Spooners may-
end up teaching us something yet. The
man who smeared her and those who
rushed to judge her certainly have a lot to
learn. What we must not do is tear to
within To them, we must be willing to
listen, and learn. .
Donna Bra/ilc i- a political commen-
tator oh CNN. ABC and NPR; contribut-
per of Capitol HUI; and former cam-
paign manager for Al Gore
“in 2' ■ ■ the Democratic nomi- dependence upon foreign oil from volanie of the electricity u-cd Texas' 9,416 .,1 .S L'Sc
./ . -• / 7 : ,.:v. ;-^4 A:..-.-.- r -... '■ ■--• -amed the farmer over to a
.• -re -..versus those who have. (It is)
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to-.-r .-nerz,. .< during ;euk usage that while ?r ,l,..cr- -.ton, p- sere sherTl.i had prtor t0 lhjs rcvcIa.
e fanner "the full force ot
• P-.rooterestoert:J1 undoes, :u>- G r; .n:-- .Ai-ar jL, ,(j j - Tha. uhvn ,he
much ot their ow. energy, while putting 1 unci. • Texas -,-at -rentes '."e state s need through the corrosive lens'of black
excess production back into , the power power gnd '• get a.ind producers to versus white
'•s^ttg tough questions . fn^jurage use ot rechargeable elec- studying is how to balance efforts to con- gut ls noI the ston Fox News mi-
'.-.irf- a-. p^ket me money per- me car, and zas,batter-hvbrid vehicles serve energy with making a profit tiallv told. Andrew Breitbart supplied the
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Perhaps both,- parties to this lawsuit are
satisfied with the outcome, but voters
shouldn't be They deserve to ,'*—
whether Perr. pulled a 51 million fast one
't r.nateiy. election shenanigans and
•Art i 4k c ~ o0fi 1 IzsrxrT
•after the voles we been cast
s.cep .1.- ;■ :• r -he • ..:-i"--ro.-e: Pic-r ■
Street Protect: , ■
V , f. not an effort to promote pecans .. ■
ft has nothing to. do with streets Its about ’ ■
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The project is named for the original ■
• \ .vt:n 's fimei! Sir-h. Street.. a
which s renowned as the city's entertain- ■
ment district.
The Pecan Street Project is an ambi-
tious undertaking by several entities with
shared interests in re-thjnking ways of
producing, conserving and pricing elec- ....™- ..........,s.,~o- , , s •
v>. k-m. toe ir.- 6 could become the role model for approval from the federal government. South. When she w.XsJ’ a white
somehow'reveaL i deception. But.'m fact. >be energy production and use not jusr r r'vhr‘r m ”* K”’k' Nn “
■ v 7 ?a‘< ’Dd- ’?r ’•"■e 'ra'*. but for the nanon. 'Aind energy At the end ‘A!.nd”jr-
t<onai senitim ; ■ d help reduce the nation's bmes over the vear provided five percent' *ere-
‘inZGXi.'BeLwa.theDer’^rancn.im:- dependence upon foreign oil from volatile ' of the electricity used Texas' a.ap.
S'.'
video only showed Sherrod saying that,
because the farmer was white, she con-
sidered withholding her best effort
This deceptive video set off a mad
scramble. There was a race to be the first
to condemn Sherrod for racism
Sherrod appeared On several hew s pro-
grams. clearly stunned and numb from
and blame:
pqweif cbnsurription and
promote use of renew-
able energy
divided into Eastern and.
Western power grids.
Texas -a- its own sepa-
rate.. power grid That
■ means it can' participate ■
n new approaches without having to get
•' . .1 ■- w ■■ . - ■
Texas is ", far-he hugest producer • ■ ' i m the back No charges
m.i «s-r,n. i.:w.i.,»• 'i,i,u ,im.i*,r. , were .’Led That was just how things
' werec /
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