added i help that all with will welcome the market along to be a big learning curve i think his contributions to our continued operations will be immense t v t v news is said to see to step down as he was the main ingredient in the workings last summer gray jury continues to maintain that the election should be declared null and void because the county union didn't follow proper procedures three ports stemmed from a grand jury investigation of agency shop elections after receiving complaints from thirty county employees that they had no notice of the elections the elections were held last august the jury wishes to express its appreciation to the board's recognition of the flawed notice procedure used in the election the report said advance notice required under the stated procedures it also said the union's notice did not meet the requirements of the election procedures the board would send to juries or reports to the mediation and service for its consideration the report said in an overwhelming victory by five candidates of the briarpatch co op board of directors is now under question by some i want to members who say ballot r in conflict of interest have tarnished the election only owner members are allowed to vote in the co op's election and this year marked the most contentious race in a storied history with fifteen candidates vying for the five seats more voters than ever before six hundred eleven people turned out to cast their votes one year after the store moved its new and bigger location and syrah college dr peter van sant garnered the most votes with three hundred  seventy eight followed by lose it was three hundred sixty four joey jordan two hundred ninety six returning director debbie plasterer two ninety four and jeff gold with two seventy six several issues have come to light with the recent election some wonder why they weren't allowed to drop their own ballots in the ballot box or worry an election committee member had possession of the ballot box key when her husband looses or was running for election we didn't put our ballot in a box so one else did it for us  a member since briar patches early days when it started out as a small colorful outpost serving affordable natural foods on your city drive store managers and directors say the staff had full control over the election and no tampering or misconduct occurred i feel like it's very secure untampered elections and co ops general manager paul hartman the league of women voters counted the ballots and found no indication t ballots had been tampered with said new director and former county supervisor peter man's hand among the regularities the league of women voters found that twenty two ballots were not initialed by staff because the staff had forgotten the step in the process  several cases the election committee report said another two ballots were found missing one of which was destroyed by staff when it was discovered in nonmember had cast their vote some owner members have also have complained of receiving election mailings and calls from candidates and expressed concern about whether their names addresses and phone numbers were obtained from the co op's database according to the election committee report deals county register for safe keeping until the election was over anyone after hours could just take the ballot box and have a field day with it but don't set any sense or whose two year term that his wife had to keep in her purse was an instant oversight and she had never had access to the ballot box that was locked in a safe in the customer service room since or added soon after an early in the election process he sits there resigned her position on election jordan and since there were present peter friends and was absent from the beating cord into the minutes of the meeting director mike passenger expressed distrust of the irregularities and urged the board to be prepared to deal with them in the future since the co op moved to its new location both cats and passenger have disagreed with the rest of the board on the number of a number of issues directors voted to accept the two thousand election process and did not schedule a new election despite the concerns over irregularities there's no  who has asked for one hundred and said on are members who have expressed concerns about the election and didn't vote for events and sits or jordan gold plast say their concerns aren't so our grapes we don't mind losing but we want to be wanted to be legitimate is retiring and in their place christopher's deli and catering is moving in and we gave up our window so they could have a seat on the main street we know everyone will miss our window as it was probably the best dressed window in town for a decade even though we never won any awards from the good old boy club we know that a lot of people in town like the memories that were in our interesting window that brought back those memories as you walk by x box playstation always been open for love and a six seven days a week and soon will be open at seven pm until seven pm when christopher's deli opens with their new hours and that's it today for nomination race senate begins debate on climate change bill and routine interference on nasa climate change research and cheney backtracks on dismissal of anti war public opinion fever but before these stories t v t v news would like to thank our underwriters once again the u n has gone for fifty percent increase in food production over the next two decades to meet the rising global demand came at a gathering of world leaders roman world food crisis he made you divide could come down to the issue of biofuels  ethanol raise food prices by diverting crops to produce fuel rather than food major biofuel producers including the united states brazil are rejecting calls of limits biofuel production on monday the u s delegation it said biofuel will account for only two to three percent of the estimated four percent rise of food prices this year by groups including the u n and international monetary fund of one biofuels war have driven up the food prices anywhere between fifteen and more than three present very dear chapman of the aid group biofuel proponents are going to overwhelming evidence the meaning is that there is a clear link between biofuels and poverty in almost three hundred million people around the world cording to our estimates today these people are being threatened by the use of biofuels and we are advocating for stopping the biofuel production and for providing immediate assistance to these people meanwhile the bush administration has announced it won't hold any talks with representatives from the ins whether zimbabwe and iran at the s your secretary said schaffer said the counties countries are welcome at the meeting but would not be recognized u s agricultural secretary and see for also said first of all if their presence here overshadows the work of this esteemed body i guess there will be up to the people in this room including you so you know that will make the difference here and what the news is so we ask that you keep the focus on the work that's been done by the body nobody from the u s delegation will be meeting with the countries you mentioned and work glad they're here we appreciate the opportunity for dialogue but it is our position that they will not meet we will not meet with them and i'm again paint trail senator b race later this week on monday senator clinton's husband former president bill clinton also suggested her concession is imminent he said this may be the last day i'm ever involved in campaign of this guy and i thought i was out of politics till history hillary decided to run but it has been one of the greatest honors of my life to be able to go running campaigning for her for president on capitol hill the senate has open debate on climate change bill supporters say it would reduce fossil fuel dependencies  emissions of carbon dioxide bipartisan measure aims to combat global warming by using a cap and trade system popularly known as carbon trading this involves setting greenhouse gas emissions limits in allowances for each industry and when creating a system to trade the allowances the white house opposes the measure as part of an objection in environmental regulations for environmentalists meanwhile have warned it may not go far enough critics say carbon trading allows big polluters to out of the revelations of dr james hansen the head of the nasa has goddard institute for space studies september two thousand and six hansen revealed the bush administration had been trying to scientists warnings about the urgent need to address climate change the nasa inspector general's report can clued public affairs officials controlled climate change findings in a manner that reduced marginalized and mischaracterized climate change science made available to the general public he continued news release in areas of climate change of suffered from in accuracy factual insufficiency and scientific dilution and vice president dick cheney has tried to explain his controversial comments dismissing public opposition to the iraq war  has asked about his reply the national press club moderates said do you wish do you had answered that question differently and does it matter if the public disagree chopper with the wisdom of the war and dick cheney replied no when i said so the point was was the question martha martha had made the statement she didn't ask a question shal atomic energy agency has announced plans to send a team of inspectors to syria later this month the move comes as the bush administration is under criticism for delaying its share of intelligence says it could prove syria is pursuing a secret weapons program the u s backed an israeli air strike on syria in september but only handed over intelligence to u n atomic inspectors last month on monday at the i a e a director general mohamed el bar he criticized the u s for the time gap the u s ambassador gregory childes said the u s had stalled because it didn't want to scope further conflict to the middle east earlier this year new yorker correspondent seymour hersh reported israel did not know what it was targeting and was mainly hoping to send a message to iran el baradei also criticized iran on monday saying that it withheld information on the nuclear plans u s ambassador shell said iran should face further sanctions he also said in many ways the choice is up to iran are they are ready to stay isolated are they ready to subject themselves to further sanctions and isolation from the world economic system and financial system or are they ready to take that offer that's on the table we hope they make the decision to take the offer iran has offered talks with the u s on its nuclear program in middle east peace but the bush administration has preconditioned any negotiations on iran's abandonment of its nuclear activities and in bolivia president evo morales has vowed to push ahead of a nationalized asian effort despite autonomy efforts from the oil rich regions on sunday voters in a province of benny and pando approved adam autonomy referendums following bolivia swati in santa cruz read last month on monday morales announced a state takeover of an oil pipeline company invalid to reject efforts to divide bolivia he also said it's our obligation to continue to recover the energy industry and in this way fulfill the wishes of the bolivian people with this clear request from the bolivian people above all the request of the social moves that permanently demonstrated during the neo liberal government that process of recuperation will continue with this government back in the united states democratic senator ted kennedy is recovering in north carolina hospital after undergoing what doctors called a successful brain surgery candidate was diagnosed with a male evening brain tumor last month kennedy plans to return to massachusetts next week to begin chemotherapy and radiation treatment meanwhile democratic senator robert byrd of west virginia has been hospitalized for the third time in many months as as many months spokesperson says byrd is suffering from the fever and has white house press secretary scott mcclellan said president bush personally told him he also has the leak the national intelligence estimate on iraq not the leak of former cia operative valerie plame satanic sorry about that but that was what information down to the genetic fingerprint and investigation by texas and new mexico health authorities and the indian health service tied those cases to uncooked were all large tomatoes at least seventy people in texas and was mexico have been hospitalized none of died according to the s center for disease control and prevention another thirty have become sick with same seminal st paul infection in arizona utah colorado kansas idaho illinois and indiana c d c investigators are looking into whether tomatoes are culprits there too in texas new mexico a large tomatoes including roma and red round tomatoes were found to be a common factor in the forty illnesses but no farm distributor or grocery chain has been a den as the main source said casey barton raf fish a c d see molecules working on the investigation the special type of source of tomato is under investigation she said simoneau is a bacterial infection that lives in the intestinal track of humans and other animals bacteria is usually transmitted to humans by eating foods contaminated with human feces an officer who sorry hand off feces most infected people suffer fever a cram starting twelve to seventy two hours after infection the onus tends to last four to seven days many people recover without treatment however severe infection and even death is possible in france the elderly and people with weakened immune systems are  greatest risk for severe in texas in texas and new mexico the patient range of age from ages three to eighty two of the forty thirty eight were interviewed most of them said the rajah made from either stores or restaurants before becoming ill between april twenty third mate twenty seven another seventeen cases are under investigation in new mexico the c d c official said and that's it for last night were still in the publicly destroying property the caller was worried the forest service would take his money claim away from him if people were caught near his claim before a service patrol officer could not articulate the need for law enforcement in the area it just