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RE: virus: Things to do in Denver
« on: 2004-05-23 09:03:32 » |
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[Blunderov] Nice work if you can get it.
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http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/05/21/120.html
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In April, Bush quietly gave a mining conglomerate larded with his top
contributors a little gift: $155 million worth of federal land, the Denver
Post reports. Invoking an obscure 1872 law designed to help frontier
prospectors gain title to their small mining claims, Bush turned over a
swathe of prime Colorado mountaintop property to the firm of Dodge Phelps,
whose board is packed with oil men, military contractors and official Bush
"Pioneers": corporate fat cats who've strongarmed at least $100,000 from
their friends -- and employees -- for Bush campaign coffers.
Because the never-updated 1872 law requires that federal mining land be sold
for $5 per acre, Bush's bagmen only had to pony up $875 for the whole spread
-- in an area where land is worth a staggering $1 million per acre. The idea
is to build an elite ski playground on the looted public property -- even
though the law requires that such land sales be used for actual mining.
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