{"id":1129,"date":"2004-02-28T12:03:50","date_gmt":"2004-02-28T19:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/there-is-still-time\/"},"modified":"2004-02-28T12:03:50","modified_gmt":"2004-02-28T19:03:50","slug":"there-is-still-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/there-is-still-time\/","title":{"rendered":"There Is Still Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Fearing 'Unprecedented Land Grab' During Election Year, Group Urges 60,000 Interior Department Employees to Use Tipline\" href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/prnews\/040226\/dcth015_1.html\">Fearing &#8216;Unprecedented Land Grab&#8217; During Election Year, Group Urges 60,000 Interior Department Employees to Use Tipline<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Concerns Grow About Accelerated Industry Rush for Favors if Bush Re-election Appears Uncertain<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; The nonprofit Campaign to Protect America&#8217;s Lands (CPAL) announced that it is sending an email today to 59,684 Department of Interior employees urging them to use a confidential tipline (1- 866-LANDTIP or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.landtip.org\/\">http:\/\/www.landtip.org<\/a>) to report any new anti-environment rules or other steps related to America&#8217;s public lands, parks or wilderness areas that may crop up in the coming months. CPAL&#8217;s goal is to thwart <b>a whole new round of special-interest proposals that are expected to clog Interior if panicked industry executives come to believe that President Bush is unlikely to serve a second term<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Our concern is that industry demands for special treatment at Interior will go beyond the fever pitch they&#8217;ve been at already if companies start to worry that President Bush is fighting a losing re-election battle,&#8221; CPAL Director Peter Altman explained. <b>&#8221;These companies literally will start grabbing for anything that they can get their hands on, and the Bush Administration likely will go even further to <i>subvert the democratic process<\/i> in order to accommodate its <i>powerful friends<\/i>.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From the first day, Bush has tried to change everything as fast as he can. He has always looked like someone who doubts he&#8217;ll get a second term. Keep an eye on the store while he is out showing his leadership. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fearing &#8216;Unprecedented Land Grab&#8217; During Election Year, Group Urges 60,000 Interior Department Employees to Use Tipline Concerns Grow About Accelerated Industry Rush for Favors if Bush Re-election Appears Uncertain WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; The nonprofit Campaign to Protect America&#8217;s Lands (CPAL) announced that it is sending an email today to 59,684 Department of Interior &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/there-is-still-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">There Is Still Time<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}