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Letter: Romney backer would like to see Christie Whitman for VP

June 7th, 2012|

By Maggie Carpenter, Stuart TCPalm (FL) June 7, 2012 As noted by Peggy Fisher's May 17 letter, I too have been a Mitt Romney backer from the get-go and am happy to see that he is really gathering steam as we head into the convention season. However, as an alternative choice for running mate I would submit Christie Whitman, former [...]

Editorial: The Danger Downwind

May 23rd, 2012|

New York Times May 23, 2012 In 2006, then-Senator Barack Obama co-sponsored a tough law aimed at protecting the public from an accident or terrorist attack at one of the nation’s chemical plants. Opposed by industry and President George W. Bush’s White House, the bill never made it to the Senate floor. A weak substitute was passed instead, and the [...]

Ex-Governor Whitman leads Delaware Bay book launch

May 12th, 2012|

By Phillip Tomlinson The News of Cumberland County May 12, 2012 COMMERCIAL TWP. — Conservationists of all stripes gathered in Bivalve Friday morning to launch the new book, “Life Along the Delaware Bay,” a written and pictorial celebration of the bay and the diverse ecosystems it supports. [...]

Editorial: The Risk From Chemical Plants

May 3rd, 2012|

New York Times May 3, 2012 More than a decade after 9/11, thousands of facilities that produce, store or use highly toxic chemicals remain vulnerable to a terrorist attack or accident that could kill or injure hundreds of thousands of people living downwind of an explosion. A Congressional Research Service report identifies 483 facilities in 43 states where a chemical [...]

Christine Todd Whitman’s View From the Middle

April 25th, 2012|

April 25, 2012 Christine Todd Whitman knows well the view from the middle. A moderate Republican, Whitman was elected New Jersey’s first female governor in 1994. In 2001, she was appointed administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under President George W. Bush, but she left just two years later after conflicts with what she later described as a divisive political [...]

Governors Rendell and Whitman on Election 2012: It’s been a shameful clown show

April 6th, 2012|

By NCC Staff National Constitution Center/Constitution Daily April 6, 2012 Today at the National Constitution Center, former Governors Ed Rendell and Christine Todd Whitman offered contrasting perspectives and firsthand knowledge of Election 2012′s key players and issues. David Eisner, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderated. [...]

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