Like Vogel, they never had seen such a thing. All three are working as interns this summer at the refuge near Seymour, studying plants, waterfowl and copperbelly water snakes. For years, environmentalists had opposed building an upscale shopping and entertainment complex in Carlstadt, N.J., because it would require filling more than 90 acres of marshland that is home to rare waterfowl and other wildlife. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service opposed it for the same reasons, then reversed itself as part of a federal endorsement of the complex engineered by the White House. Executives of the development company, Mills Corp., and a spokesman for Gore denied that there was any connection between the endorsement of the project and the campaign contributions.
Nobody's entitled to votes.
We all have to earn our votes. Nader, who met on Friday with independent Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura to talk about the obstacles third-party candidates face, slashed at both major party candidates. Nader described Gore as a coward for failing to propose automobile fuel efficiency standards and for endorsing U.S. participation in the World Trade Organization. Bush, Nader said, is controlled by the big corporations financing his campaign. Nader, the Green Party presidential candidate, had no similar stinging words for Bush, the GOP candidate.