Posted on 09/25/2004 10:48:08 PM PDT by timbuck2
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In this piece, she lauds the careers of two retiring Illinois Republicans who have (surprise!)had a falling out with GOP leadership and the GOP in particular. She also gets into ethanol and agribusiness again.Gets stranger by the minute. There is something fishy about her husband's work, MBTE, ethanol, Jeff Seabright's connection to Chevron and how it all ties into her reporting...
December 31, 2000, Sunday, BC cycle
SECTION: State and Regional
LENGTH: 919 words
HEADLINE: Porter, Ewing leave mark on Congress they're departing
BYLINE: By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
"...Porter, part of a dwindling band of GOP moderates, has a repuation as a deficit hawk who spent 21 years in Congress fighting his party on gun control, abortion, environmental regulations and other issues.
Porter, a North Shore native and son of an Evanston judge, was a Justice Department attorney in the early 1960s before returning to Illinois and private law practice. He served in the Illinois House from 1972 to 1979. After narrowly losing a 1978 challenge to former Democratic Rep. Abner Mikva, Porter won a 1980 special election when Mikva was appointed to the federal bench.
Ten terms later, Porter departs as head of the Appropriations subcommittee overseeing spending on education, social, health and labor programs.
He used his post to fight for funding for biomedical research, public broadcasting and global family planning. He often fought for additional federal gun control and robust environmental protections.
And he helped found the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, frequently denouncing Turkey and Iran for persecution of Armenians and Kurds, and China for numerous human rights abuses. His wife, Kathryn, collaborated with him on those issues.
Porter said stand-out moments include doubling funding for the National Institutes of Health, a barely unsuccessful effort to stop a new U.S. chemical weapons program, and a dramatic increase in money for Radio Free Asia..."
..."In 1991, former GOP Rep. Edward Madigan left his seat to become Agriculture Secretary and Ewing won a special election to replace him. In 1995, when Republicans assumed control of the House, Ewing became chairman of the Agriculture subcommittee with jurisdiction over commodity futures, crop insurance and specialty crops like tobacco, sugar and peanuts.
He has been a staunch supporter of those industries during his nine years in Congress. He has also been a chief backer of the ethanol industry.
He believes his signature achievement is a plan passed this congressional session to deregulate the over-the-counter derivatives market.
Ewing's campaigns benefited from those with business before his committee, such as the American Association of Crop Insurers, numerous sugar interests, the Archer Daniels Midland Co., the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Ewing also made regulatory reform a major focus with three bills signed into law.
A close confidant of House Speaker Dennis Hastert from their days rooming together in Springfield, Ewing gained new clout when Hastert took the House's top job.
But they feuded after Ewing announced his retirement..."
A search of LexisNexis by author name and ethanol returns 141 documents for Loven. Okay, well enough for now. Not sure where this leads, but I did discover some interesting things about this obviously partisan reporter and her reliance on her Dem activist husband for sources...
-T
June 21, 2001; Thursday
SECTION: Washington - general news
LENGTH: 697 words
HEADLINE: Official Questions Gasoline Mandate
BYLINE: JENNIFER LOVEN
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
"...Eleven states have banned MTBE and at least a dozen more are considering it. Keeping the oxygenate requirement then would likely be a massive boost for the farm state-based ethanol industry..."
"...But only 101 of the nation's 176,000 gas stations sell the 85 percent ethanol blend known as E85, meaning only 1 percent of the fuel used by the 1.2 million dual-use vehicles is renewable. Likewise, since the trade-off allows more SUVs to hit the market, the net effect has been a 772 million-gallon increase in conventional gas consumption, the report found.
Nonetheless, the study recommends continuing the program, which is set to expire in 2004, but only if it can be changed to increase the use of ethanol in the vehicles..."
-T
Thanks, Cal. Somebody should put together a timeline of her husband's work in government/consulting and her articles and then cross check them for correlation. Also a nice flashy NY Times style "web of connections" would be splendid. Ethanol, the outlawing of MBTE, a couple of retiring and embittered GOP pols, the Clinton White House, ChevronTexaco, Inc., Green Strategies, Inc., Terry McCauliffe, the DNC and the Associated Press...
;-)
-T
Thank you. At the very least, there is an appearance of impropriety. When journalism was more reputable, this alone would trigger some sort of audit.
-T
An awful lot of the companies and organizations listed on Roger Ballentine's client list
http://www.greenstrategies.com/clients/clients.html
show up in Loven's articles... And, surprise! - they often bash Bush.
December 2, 2002 Monday
SECTION: WASHINGTON DATELINE
LENGTH: 546 words
HEADLINE: Bush Signs Wetlands Preservation Bill
BYLINE: JENNIFER LOVEN; Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
"...With Bush hoping to burnish his environmental credentials, the wetlands bill-signing merited a full-blown ceremony in a White House auditorium attended by Cabinet members, lawmakers and the conservation group Ducks Unlimited.
But some environmental groups said the event, on legislation Bush said "shows our concern for the environment," was in contrast to other moves by the administration that threaten wetlands.
Millions of acres of wetlands remain in regulatory limbo, translating into potential opportunity for developers because the Bush administration hasn't yet firmed up its approach to regulating wetlands.
The confusion stems from a Supreme Court ruling last year in a developer's challenge that said the Clean Water Act's authority over navigable waters doesn't extend to "isolated" wetlands.
Environmental groups fear soon-to-be-announced rules dictating which U.S. waters were affected will make it "easier to fill many, many more wetlands," said Julie Sibbing of the National Wildlife Federation..."
-T
Welcome to the next Blog battle. Hope you guys are successful. I'll be watching.
Tremendous catches. They PROVE why she should never have been assigned. Her only "out," depending on the date of each article, is whether she was married to the guy at the time.
Jen is hopelessly conflicted, and has no business covering anyone's presidential campaign or the presidency.
DEMAND THAT JENNIFER LOVEN OF AP BE TAKEN OFF THE PREZ CAMPAIGN (CLEAR CONFLICTS OF INTEREST)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1227072/posts
Noted in that post:
- Hubby is a Kerry campaign donor ($2000 in last two years)
- Hubby worked in the Clinton Administration in an enviro policymaking position.
- (THE CLINCHER) Hubbby is CURRENTLY, RIGHT NOW, TODAY, a PAID KERRY CAMPAIGN SPOKLESPERSON on enviro issues.
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"Interesting" link at Google about Ms. Loven in her community (didn't post link because it has non-postable stuff elsewhere on the page).
It says that in May 2003 she was scheduled to participate in a forum in her hoity-toity Chevy Chase, MD neighborhood about the Iraq War with:
- John Ydstie of NPR.
- Two local TV producers
- A Swiss Journalist
One has to wonder if anyone in the forum was for the war, and how they treated anyone there who was.
Perhaps a FReeper was in attendance?
Check THIS out pair of writings out, one from hub and one from Jen:
In December 2002, hubby Roger Ballentine writes an article opposing the Bush "Clear Skies" environmental initiatives.
Link:
http://www.ppionline.org/ndol/print.cfm?contentid=251052
Quote (in 2nd and 3rd paras, bold mine):
"By leaving out CO2, Bush's so-called "Clear Skies" legislation is both a step backward on global warming and a disservice to the very energy companies it is designed to appease.
Introduced last summer by Sen. Bob Smith (R-N.H.) and expected to be reintroduced in the 108th Congress, the proposal aims to reduce power plant emissions of three key gases: nitrogen oxide, which produces smog; sulfur dioxide, the source of acid rain; and mercury. Because it goes after three pollutants, this approach is called "3P." But at the urging of Vice President Cheney and other Republican ideologues, the president's proposal excludes the fourth and arguably the most important "P" -- CO2, the greenhouse gas predominantly responsible for global climate change.
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Fast forward to September 2003.
Bush is visitng Michigan. Jennifer Loven writes an article about it.
Link:
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/philly/news/local/6775805.htm
(Final 2 paras, bolds mine)
...And he was to push Congress to pass his so-called "Clear Skies" legislation. The plan would phase in caps on the emissions of nitrogen oxide, which causes smog, and sulfur dioxide, which causes soot and acid rain, from coal-burning power plants starting in 2010, the official said. It also would create the first controls on mercury releases and introduce market forces to help spur reductions.
Environmentalists said Bush's proposal would actually weaken current law while doing nothing to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, blamed by many for global warming.
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"So-called"?
Great detective work! I am going to put in some more time looking at Loven's articles, but you have demonstrated clearly that she parrots the partisan Dem line spoon fed to her by her husband Ballentine, a former Clinton administration employee, active DNC fundraiser and now advisor to John Kerry and consultant to any number of Dem connected clients. Nicely done!
-T
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