Reply #29: NOT a "front burner issue" for the Dems in 2004....

[bvar22]

...regardless of what you think you remember.

"The Environment" didn't appear until Page 35 of the 43 page Democratic Party Platform 2004 (the platform Kerry/Edwards ran on....the Platform handed to Kerry/Edwards by the Party Power Brokers)
http://a9.g.akamai.net/7/9/8082/v002/www.democrats.org/pdfs/2004platform.pdf

"The Environment" received about the same priority at the campaign events I attended, and even then the statements of "needing clean skies and water to turn over to our children" were empty platitudes without committment to a defined plan or proposed legislation.

I know. I was there.

The Democratic Party is a BIG TENT, but there is NO ROOM for those
who advance the agenda of THE RICH (Corporate Owners) at the EXPENSE of LABOR and the POOR.