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Gore Was Pro-Life as a Congressman.
"It is my deep personal conviction that abortion is wrong. I hope that some day we will see the current outrageously large number of abortions drop sharply. . . . Let me assure you that I share your belief that innocent human life must be protected . . . In my opinion, it is wrong to spend federal funds for what is arguably the taking of a human life. . . ." (Letter from Rep. Al Gore to a Constituent, 7/18/84) Gore had a high rating from the antiabortion movement (an 84 rating), and a similar letter to a constituent in 1987, can be found in a 1999 biography, ''Gore: A Political Life,'' by former ABC News reporter Bob Zelnick.
VIETNAM
"And I was shot at. . . . I spent most of my time in the field." (Al Gore, The Washington Post, 2/3/88) "I carried an M-16 . . . I pulled my turn on the perimeter at night and walked through the elephant grass, and I was fired upon." (Al Gore, Los Angeles Times, 10/15/99) Gore No Longer Mentions Combat Duty on the Campaign Trail. "On the campaign trail today, while he suggests no combat heroics, he nonetheless mentions his service in Vietnam proudly." Los Angeles Times, 10/15/99)
Gore Had Bodyguards Assigned to Keep Him Out of Harm?s Way in Vietnam. "In Vietnam, Alan Leo, a photographer in the press brigade office where Gore worked as a reporter, said he was summoned by Brig. Gen. K.B. Cooper, the 20th Engineer Brigade?s Commander, and told Leo that he, Cooper, ?had a great amount of respect for the senator.? He asked Leo, the most experienced member of the press unit, to make sure that nothing happened to Gore. ?He requested that "Gore not get into situations that were dangerous,?" said Leo, who did what he could to carry out Cooper?s directive. He described his half-dozen or so trips into the field with Gore as situations where ?I could have worn a tuxedo.?"(Newsweek, 12/6/99)
GORE ON GAS
PAUL EHRLICH'S BOOK, ON GAS PRICES: "The United States could start by gradually imposing a higher gasoline tax-hiking it by one or two cents per month until gasoline costs $2.50 to $3.00 per gallon, comparable to prices in Europe and Japan." (Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, The Population Explosion, 1990, pp. 219-220) On the dustcover of the book, Gore said, "The time for action is due, and past due. Ehrlich has written the prescription." "Higher taxes on fossil fuels. . . is one of the logical first steps in changing our policies in a manner consistent with a more responsible approach to the environment." (Al Gore, Earth in the Balance, 1993, p. 173)
SOVIET CONNECTION
The Gore family was obliged to former Soviet agent, Armand Hammer for their family fortune. See DOSSIER The Secret History of Armand Hammer by Edward Jay Epstein from Random House. According to official Hammer biographer Neil Lyndon writing in London?s Sunday Review, Hammer liked to brag that he had Al Gore, Sr., "in his back pocket" while patting his wallet and chuckling. Hammer also helped to launch Al Gore, Jr., into politics with "prolonged and profound involvement."
In 1950, Hammer had made Congressman Gore, the father, a partner in a cattle-breeding business, and Gore made a substantial and unwarranted profit from it in a transparent kick-back scheme. Zelnick notes that, while receiving prize Angus stock from Hammer on the one hand, Gore Sr. at the same time auctioned off portions of his herd reportedly at outrageously high prices to lobbyists and others who wanted his attention. Sometimes, according to local accounts, purchasers didn't even bother to pick up the livestock they had bought. The author quotes former Tennessee Gov. Ned McWherter, a staunch Gore ally: "I've sold some Angus in my time, too, but I never got the kind of prices for my cattle that the Gores got for theirs."
Hammer's largest acquisition was Island Creek Coal, the nation's third-largest coal producer, which Hammer made Albert Gore chairman of.
At five previous inaugurations before Reagan, Hammer had been the guest of Gore's father, Albert Gore, Sr., who now headed Occidental's coal division and earned more than $500,000 a year.
Hammer bought a farm and its mineral rights and then sold it to Al Gore, Sr., in a sweetheart deal (don't try this at home - you WILL go to jail. This is only for professionals). A year later in 1974 Al Gore, Jr., "bought" the farm (this is how he became a slumlord - he jokes that he will be a better steward of the nation's economy than of his own rental property). Hammer paid Junior $20,000 a year for the "mineral rights" (zinc) although no mining was done on the farm until 1985 and, of course, in spite of the fact that Hammer had previously owned the rights free and clear and so had no reason to pay at all. During the 25 years that Gore Jr. has leased the right to mine zinc on his property along the Caney Fork River outside Carthage, Tenn., he has earned more than $450,000. The lease payment of $227 per acre was quite a bit higher than the established Occidental rate of $30 an acre in that area. Occidental never actually mined the property but paid Gore $190,000 altogether before selling the lease, which since has changed hands several times, shifting around the right to pay Gore. Vice President Al Gore still gets the $20,000 a year and is very sensitive about the subject of KGB agent Hammer whom he did numerous favors for.
Most Americans don't know that Occidental tripled its domestic oil reserves overnight because of a historic reinventing-government decision announced by Vice President Gore. Oil companies have been lusting after the Elk Hills Oil Reserve in California for 70 years, but it was not until Bill Clinton and Al Gore that it was opened up, with Occidental the high bidder. This was the largest sale of US assets ever. It had been held as an oil reserve for the Navy since 1912.
Another Gore-Occidental connection is the Love Canal toxic-waste tragedy. Gore, who claimed to have unearthed the scandal, hasn't been forthcoming about ownership of Hooker Chemical Co., the firm that paid millions of dollars in fines for polluting Love Canal. Hooker was a subsidiary of Occidental, purchased by Hammer in 1969. At that time, insider Gore Sr. took advantage of a stock offer, well below market value, and scarfed up thousands of shares of Hooker at $150 per. It could be said that the Gores CREATED Love Canal.
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Oh yeah, and Mancow does a very good job when he's serious and talks politics.
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