__California Senators 'Begged' Bush to Prevent California Fires, But Bush Said No
"The U.S. Senate passed controversial legislation allowing the thinning of forests across the West, and another debate erupted over whether dire warnings about a bark beetle infestation were ignored in Washington. In April, Gov. Gray Davis requested $430 million to remove unhealthy trees on 415, 000 acres of forest, but the request for emergency funds went unanswered until last week - and then was denied... Sen. Barbara Boxer, speaking in the Senate during Thursday's debate on the 'Healthy Forests' bill, complained that Bush had failed to act on the state's request for help and that now Californians were suffering. 'We named three of the four counties that are up in smoke, and we begged him to declare a disaster, we begged him,' Boxer said before the bill passed 80-14. 'We saw this coming a mile away.'" Impeach Bush Now!
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/10/31/MNG3S2NI081.DTL
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mike kohr
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