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...pending disaster" says Tom Nassif, president and CEO of Western Growers, which represents 3,000 farmers that grow, pack, and ship half of the nation's fresh fruit, vegetables and nuts. Already, he says, California's Central San Joaquin Valley is missing about 70,000 of the workers it needs. Growers worry that the lack of manpower will next hit the $1 billion winter lettuce crop in the border region between California's Imperial Valley and the Yuma Valley in Arizona...
...came as no great surprise when House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was indicted last week by a Texas grand jury on charges of criminal conspiracy. After all, a cloud of suspicion had long hovered over the Texas Republicans head in relation to alleged violations of campaign finance laws. Whats especially troublesome about last weeks development, however, is the fact that ethical violations such as DeLays are by no means extraordinary in todays Washington. Indeed, several other key political figuresincluding Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, presidential adviser Karl Rove, and Thomas Finneran, the former speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representativesare...
...aggressive redistricting plan. John Rowland, once the Republican governor of Connecticut, is now serving time in federal prison after being convicted of conspiracy. The list could go on, but the trend is clear: unethical political practices are evident throughout the government, not just in the case of Tom DeLay...
This type of response is unacceptable. The long litany of recent ethics abuses committed by some of the most powerful individuals in our governmentincluding, most recently, the indictment of Tom DeLaydemonstrate a fact that cannot be ignored any longer: there is an intolerable lack of honesty in our government. The people of the United States want and deserve a transparent government that is free from corruption, and the time has come for politicians to take this demand seriously...
When fabled Houston defense attorney Dick DeGuerin strode into an Austin courthouse last week to defend Congressman Tom DeLay, he quoted Yogi Berra, asserting that this would be "d?j? vu all over again." Given the trouncing DeGuerin had handed Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle 12 years ago in their last big face-off, few observers doubted this would be a battle royale. But no one anticipated it would be d?j? vu so quickly...