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McCain just not that into Amtrak |
Kate Sheppard |
02 Jul 2008 |
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| Over at the Boston Globe, columnist Derrick Z. Jackson does an excellent job of highlighting John McCain's beef with Amtrak: For years, McCain, in the comfort of cheap gasoline for autos and airplanes, made Amtrak a personal whipping boy. Despite the fact that governments in Western Europe and Asia zoomed far ahead of the United States by supporting high-speed trains to relieve congestion, promote tourism and now as we are coming to know, save the planet, McCain has ... |
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| Topics: elections, John McCain, Muckraker, news, placemaking, politics, presidential race 08, public transportation (all these topics) |
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