Romney courts Florida activists with family presence
Mitt Romney drew support at a Florida GOP event by bringing his wife and family along with key allies while Rudy Giuliani sparked the crowd with a dynamic, high energy address. John McCain criticized Romney in a rare deviation from prepared remarks as the top Republican candidates pitched a party base rally.
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Fla
Mitt Romney
Florida
Romney
National Party
New York
Arizona
John McCain
Massachusetts
Ann Romney
Bush tours Maryland to bolster conservation stance
President Bush spent a fall day at Patuxent Research Refuge bird watching and handling a screech owl, then fished Chesapeake Bay for red drum and striped bass with hosts of Offshore Adventures. He announced credits for private landowners to create stopover habitats and possible tax breaks for conservation easements, plus an order to boost striped bass and red drum stocks by restricting sales of fish caught far offshore.
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Chesapeake Bay
Patuxent Research Refuge
Washington
Congress
Maryland
Chris
Melissa Fischer
ESPN
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Atlantic Ocean
Gulf of Mexico
Georgia governor declares drought emergency in northern Georgia
Gov. Sonny Perdue declared a state of emergency for the northern third of Georgia as water supplies dwindle in a historic drought and asked President Bush to declare the area a major disaster. Lake Lanier faces depletion in under three months while officials seek federal waivers and tighter reservoir releases to protect downstream mussels.
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Cumming
Sonny Perdue
Georgia
Bush
Lake Lanier
Perdue
Three more UAW locals reject Chrysler contract
Three additional United Auto Workers locals in Missouri Ohio and Delaware rejected the tentative Chrysler agreement amid broader dissent. Local 110 at Fenton Missouri where 2 781 hourly workers manufacture minivans voted down 66 percent among skilled trades and 79 percent among non skilled workers.
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United Auto Workers
Chrysler LLC
Missouri
Ohio
Delaware
Fenton
Chrysler
South Assembly
Chrysler Town and Country
Harley Shaiken
University of California At Berkeley
UAW
Shaiken
General Motors Corp
Toledo, Ohio
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