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The Interview
Wednesday, June 14, 2000

  • TITLE: "The Interview" Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson wants to be Al Gore's running mate. No one has had a worse last two years than Energy Bill.

  • "But you are now a U.S. citizen?" This is a New Mexico joke. New Mexicans get this all the time - "Is that part of the United States?"

  • "Then there's this gasoline price thing?" Regular, unleaded gas in the Chicago area is now about $2.03 a gallon. A year ago it was in the $1.20 range. Al Gore cannot have the people of the City of Chicago mad at him come November. Two dollar gas may make them very angry.

  • "Swayzed?" I found this at a site which boasted a fairly large collection of college slang. It listed "swayze" as slang for leaving. It did not indicate why.

  • "Sue." Sue is the Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton on display at the Field Museum. There are two replicas of the exhibit which are traveling around the nation.

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    Texas under Governor Bush:

  • 1st in student improvement on test scores, especially for African-American and Hispanic students.
  • 1st in reducing the amount of releases and disposal of toxics - more than all 49 other states combined.
  • 1st in the nation to allow a patient to appeal an HMO's decision to deny care.
  • 1st to create a prison ministry to help offenders reintegrate into society.
  • 1 of only 3 states to require reductions of harmful pollution from older, unpermitted utility plants.
  • 1 of only 10 "highly successful" states in reducing welfare rolls between 1995 and 1998.
  • 4th in growth in total personal income.
  • 9th in teacher pay, when adjusted for cost of living and teacher experience.
  • $1.8 billion investment in healthcare initiatives.
  • 1.2 million jobs created, representing more than 10 percent of new jobs created nationwide and 48,000 new businesses.
  • Lowest unemployment rate in twenty years -- 4.7 percent.
  • Doubled the number of adoptions of abused and neglected children in Texas.

    America under Clinton-Gore:

  • The number of uninsured Americans increased by more than 8 million.
  • Almost 70 percent of fourth graders in the highest poverty schools cannot read at basic level.
  • Teachers were victims of 1.8 million crimes at school, including 657,000 violent crimes.
  • Illegal drug use among high school seniors increased 78 percent.
  • Federal prosecutions of gun-related offenses decreased by 46 percent.
  • More than 12,000 U.S. soldiers are on food stamps.
  • Enacted a $115 billion tax increase on Social Security enefits.
  • Federal government is the nation's largest polluter, costing taxpayers nearly $400 billion for cleanups.
  • 45 convictions, 72 indictments/misdemeanor charges, and 8 imprisonments related to the 1996 campaign finance scandal, improper conduct by Clinton-Gore cabinet officials, and Whitewater.

    What did Arkansas look like when Al Gore joined Bill Clinton in 1992?


  • 50th in environmental policy initiatives.
  • 47th in per capita state spending for education.
  • 43rd in per capita spending for higher education.
  • 41st in citizens living in poverty.
  • 45th in children living in poverty.
  • 47th in children without health insurance.
  • 45th in children living in hunger.
  • 43rd in infants born with low birth weight.
  • 47th in personal income.

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