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Labor Department Tries to Strong Arm Press for $1 Million

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The “most transparent administration in history” has struck again.

This time it was the Department of Labor, which tried to charge the Associated Press more than $1 million for providing a list of secret email addresses of political appointees.

The excuse was that the Department would have to pull some 2,200 computer backup tapes from storage, pay 50 people to go over them, identify the correct tapes and ship them to a vendor, a process which would take about three weeks and require paying each person around $2,500. The vendor would then take several more weeks.

First, some math. . . . Read Complete Report

Beer company offers $1 million for safe capture of ‘Bigfoot’

From UPI.com April 11, 2013 at 3:30 PM

TUMWATER, Wash., April 11 (UPI) — Olympia Beer in Washington state is offering a $1 million reward for the “safe capture of Bigfoot,” the legendary creature said to roam the Pacific Northwest.

The Tumwater company posted a statement on its website saying “Olympia Beer and Bigfoot have been leaving footprints together in the Pacific Northwest since 1896,” KCPQ-TV, Seattle, reported Thursday. . . . Read Complete Report

$1 million more for marijuana legalization campaign — and support from King County sheriff

from The Seattle Times

October 1, 2012 at 7:46 PM

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he campaign to legalize recreational marijuana has received two new boosts: another $1 million in donations, and a vote of approval from King County Sheriff Steve Strachan.

The biggest donation to Initiative 502 came from Progressive Insurance founder and marijuana-legalization advocate Peter Lewis. His $670,000 donation last week brings his total contribution to $1.55 million, more than a third of I-502′s total contribution of nearly $4 million.

Those contributions allowed I-502 to buy about $700,000 in TV airtime the last week before the election, said campaign manager Alison Holcomb. Those ads will differ from I-502′s first round of TV ads, which featured a middle-aged woman who declared she “didn’t really like” marijuana, but that it was time for “a conversation” about legalizing it.

Strachan, who is running for election, said Monday he would vote for I-502, which would “bring clarity” to the conflicting state and federal laws regarding marijuana. “I think the current situation is bad for the rule of law, bad for the criminal justice system and and it sends a bad message to our kids.” . . . Read Complete Report