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> Subject: FW: CCNC update:  NC Newspapers'
> Gubernatorial Endorsements
> Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 16:38:03 -0500 
> 
> FYI
>  
> 
> *****************************************
> Chris Canfield
> Executive Director
> NC State Office, National Audubon Society
> 410 Airport Rd.
> Chapel Hill, NC  27514
> 919-929-3899/fax: 919-929-4599
> email: ccanfield@audubon.org
> ***************************************** 
> 
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> 
> 
> 
> N.C. NEWSPAPERS MAKE ENDORSEMENTS FOR GOVERNOR AND
> COMMENT ON ENVIRONMENTAL
> CONCERNS
> (Papers quoted below all endorse Mike Easley, except
> for Mr. Vinroot's
> hometown Charlotte Observer.)
> 
> 
> During his tenure [as Attorney General],
> Easley...launched the Safe
> Neighborhoods Initiative, created the Citizens'
> Rights Division and made the
> Environmental Section a full Division in the Justice
> Department......As
> governor, Easley...promises to continue the economic
> roll from the outer
> banks to the inner reaches of the western counties,
> and to fight for a
> healthier environment. ...For his experience,
> commitment and leadership,
> Mike Easley deserves the endorsement for Governor of
> North Carolina.
> ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES, 10/30/00
> 
> Easley has the stronger stance on environmental
> protection: eliminating hog
> lagoons, curbing development in flood plains,
> stronger anti-pollution laws.
> Vinroot lays most of the blame for pollution on
> cities and says he would
> work with scientists to develop better farm waste
> disposal methods, but does
> not support more regulation of farms. This state has
> learned, the hard way,
> the price of lax regulation and haphazard
> enforcement.... 
> RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, 10/29/00
> 
> Easley...supports aggressive environmental
> initiatives. He suggests tying
> state transportation funding to whether communities
> have developed
> strategies for mass transit. He created an
> environmental division within the
> Department of Justice and an environmental crimes
> task force to prosecute
> polluters... 
> For Vinroot, environmental issues are largely an
> afterthought. He says he
> supports scientific solutions over political onesin
> his campaign platform.
> While those are certainly laudable long-term goals,
> such challenges as air
> pollution can't wait for scientific breakthroughs
> that might happen next
> year or in the next decade. Or not at all. 
> Further, Vinroot seems generally unmoved by the
> threat of urban sprawl,
> which is ironic in a man from Charlotte. 
> Among Easley's most impressive victories...[is] his
> negotiation of an
> agreement with the hog industry to find
> environmentally friendlier
> alternatives to hog lagoons. 
> GREENSBORO NEWS & RECORD, 10/29/00
> 
> In some areas, Mr.Easley's approach is preferable to
> Mr. Vinroot's...Mr.
> Easley is more knowledgeable about the state's
> environmental problems and
> has done solid work as attorney general to pursue 
> polluters and  fashion a
> forward-looking agreement to clean up waste lagoons
> at animal farms.
> CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 10/28/00        
> 
> Vinroot would be a disaster for the state's air and
> water.  [O]n the
> environment, the influence of his campaign manager,
> Carter Wrenn, shows.
> Wrenn ran a public relations campaign for Farmers
> for Fairness, the state's
> largest hog farmers, trying to dissuade the
> legislature from instituting a
> moratorium on new and expanded swine operations.
> Vinroot has picked up on
> Wrenn's fable that hog farms have little if anything
> to do with the state's
> polluted rivers. Instead, Wrenn and Vinroot blame
> the pollution on cities,
> but Vinroot offers little or no help for the state's
> towns and cities to
> improve sewage treatment.... 
> Easley has... taken the issue of hog lagoons out of
> the political world,
> into the courts, and then reached phaseout
> agreements with the biggest
> farmers. 
> WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 10/22/00
> . 
> Mike Easley isn't Jim Hunt and doesn't try to be,
> but he would pursue Mr.
> Hunt's chief goal of recent years: improving public
> schools.  To that
> agenda, Mr. Easley would add his own particular
> interests: protecting older
> people and other consumers from scams, fighting
> crime, and protecting the
> environment.
> WILMINGTON MORNING STAR, 10/29/00
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Carrie Oren
> Conservation Council of North Carolina
> PO Box 12671
> Raleigh, NC 27605
> www.serve.com/ccnc/ <http://www.serve.com/ccnc/> 
> 
> (919) 839-0006
> fax: (919) 839-0767 


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Kate Finlayson
N. Chatham Co.,N.C.
katefin@yahoo.com

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