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From: Doug Henwood
To: lbo-talk
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 2:27 PM
Subject: [lbo-talk] Bush shakes down steel industry as he prepares to screw it
Bush Raises Steel Money Before Tariff Decision
By Randall Mikkelsen
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) picked up
$850,000 in campaign contributions in the heart of America's steel
industry on Tuesday even as he prepared to lift tariffs that have
been helping the steelmakers.
Supporters of the tariffs lodged a last-ditch effort to keep the
protections in place. Bush heard arguments from Pennsylvania
Republican Sen. Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record) and U.S.
Steel Corp. Chairman Tom Usher, a sponsor of the campaign fund-raiser
which the Bush re-election campaign said had been planned long before
the steel decision became imminent.
Scores of steelworkers demonstrated near the Pittsburgh site of Bush's event.
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