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...early August, when former Vermont Gov. Howard B. Dean was riding high, a friend who was working with me in Dean’s New Hampshire campaign proposed a scenario. Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., would be the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. He would appropriate Dean’s rhetoric, imitate his style and walk away with the nomination. John Kerry would win by becoming Howard Dean...
Iscayau is a political junkie. She went door-to-door campaigning for former Vermont Gov. Howard B. Dean. She has spoken at “so many” workers’ rallies that she cannot even produce a number. As a non-citizen, Iscayau is not eligible to vote in U.S. elections, but that has not prevented the leadership of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) from taking notice of her political acumen...
...despite Nelson’s relative youth, her Crimson ties, experience that came from being the head coach at Vermont from 1997-2000 and her time with Kleinfelder have made up for her young...
Bolger is chief buyer for Vermont's Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, the Mexican mill's largest customer. For the 1,900 farmers who belong to the Huatusco cooperative, her opinion can mean food on the table--or not. If her standards are high, it is understandable. She pays twice the market price for 456,000 lbs. of their coffee. Why? Co-op president Josafat Hernandez has a simple explanation: "It allows us to survive." Coffee prices on the world market have fallen by two-thirds in the past five years to below what it costs to grow the beans here...
...what Starbucks pays. But Fair Trade's 346 struggling farmer-owned co-ops might need hands-on training and investment to meet Starbucks' specs, an investment the company might find expensive. Indeed, to improve Huatusco Java, Green Mountain had to computerize quality control and bring Mexican farmers to Vermont for technical workshops. "With Fair Trade," Bolger acknowledges, "you have to walk the talk...