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Senator also questions Interior chief on false rumors of land purchases near Missouri River Breaks
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – There are no plans to create any national monuments in Montana, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar confirmed to Senator Jon
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Clark Fork Chronicle
http://www.clarkforkchronicle.com/article.php/20100309150542341
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...U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Gov. Chris Gregoire blew the horn of the Obama administration economic stimulus package in Seattle Wednesday, but they acknowledged that other instruments must be in play for the U.S. economy to fully recover. Washington...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/194908.asp?source=rss
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Oil and gas companies that take bigger risks and explore in especially challenging areas might see lower federal royalty payments, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says, but the Gulf of Mexico isn't one of those areas.
In a meeting Wednesday with the
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Houston Chronicle
http://feeds.chron.com/~r/houstonchronicle/business/~3/3VBrTszAFkQ/6691828.html
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HELENA, Mont. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Wednesday that he was proposing to create seven new wild-horse preserves, including one in the East and one in the Midwest, to address the problem of a growing population crowding the Western range.
The
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The New York Times
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WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today told Congress he would kill a controversial program that allows energy companies to use actual oil and natural gas — instead of cash — to pay the government royalties for drilling on public
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Houston Chronicle
http://feeds.chron.com/~r/houstonchronicle/topheadlines/~3/VgvvRl9_rkA/6621406.html
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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack promised California farmers Wednesday he'll press for solutions to the water crisis hitting the state's San Joaquin Valley, one of the most prolific farm regions in the world.
Vilsack listened to concerns on
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Fresno Bee
http://www.fresnobee.com/384/story/1616696.html
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DENVER—Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has the authority to cancel oil and gas leases on western Colorado's Roan Plateau, said an attorney representing environmental groups challenging the leases.
Last week, Salazar ruled out withdrawing leases issued
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Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_13146945?source=rss
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -Brian Wixom's company has paid the U.S. government hundreds of thousands of dollars for leases to drill for oil and gas on federal lands over the years, only to never put a rig in the ground.
The money simply sits in a federal bank
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WCAX
http://www.wcax.com/global/story.asp?s=10873194
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WASHINGTON July 20, 2009 - A new Google Earth interactive project created by the Pew Environment Group shows that national parks and other vacation destinations-including the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone-are under threat due to the antiquated 18
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YubaNet
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most suitable for the state. Bills passed by the Legislature offer modest financial incentives to developers and provide a way to fund extensions or new construction of transmission lines to take the power to the national grid.
Interior Secretary Ken
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Salt Lake Tribune
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_12744148?source=rss
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Demonstrators in the four-day March for Water will wrap up their 50-mile journey today with a rally near the base of the San Luis Reservoir.
Organizers expect several thousand people to gather at the Basalt Boat Launching Facility in the San Luis
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Fresno Bee
http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/1505288.html
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Greenpeace activists walk out of the water after placing a stuffed polar bear in a pond across the street from the Depart of the Interior in Washington on Friday. Greenpeace was protesting Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's decision to continue a Bush
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EcoEarth News
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/05/09/polar-bear-ruling-brings-obama-and-palin-together-like-spring-love/
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US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar was on The Daily Show last night and told Jon Stewart he wants to collect royalties from the oil industry and give the money to American tax-payers. Last time I checked, there are only a handful of oil companies,
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Indecision 2008
http://blog.indecisionforever.com/2009/05/08/jon-stewart-interviews-interior-secretary-ken-salazar/
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...is part of the cleanup of horrible Bush policies that will take many years to complete. And the most pleasant surprise: Ken Salazar is leading the way. The outgoing administration finalized a rule in December that allows federal agencies to issue permits for...
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SquareState.net
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President Barack Obama’s preference for renewable, carbon-free energy appears to be buffering the Sonoma and Mendocino shoreline from the prospect of oil rigs irrevocably associated with the Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969.
That 4 million-gallon spill,
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Santa Rosa Press Democrat
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20090412/articles/904129931
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Weeks after Mount Redoubt erupted in Alaska, the Interior Department is spending some of its first stimulus money to improve volcano monitoring. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the department would use $15.2 million to modernize volcano warning
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The New York Times
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There’s “tremendous” potential for wind energy development off the Atlantic Coast, but the federal government has not closed the door on drilling for oil and gas, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told a public hearing in Atlantic City today.
“Our
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NorthJersey.com
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I received this press release regarding Sec. of Interior Ken Salazar's remarks from earlier today:
Secretary Salazar: U.S. Offshore Wind Resources Could Lead America's Clean-Energy Revolution
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. offshore areas hold enormous
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Turn Maine Blue
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WASHINGTON -- Backers of offshore wind and tidal farms could get a boost Tuesday with the resolution of a longstanding regulatory dispute between two federal agencies.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Jon Wellinghoff, the acting chairman of the
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The Oil Drum | A Community Discussion about Peak Oil
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1. Ken Salazar was born on March 2, 1955, in Alamosa, Colo., to Henry and Emma Salazar. During World War II, Salazar's father was a staff sergeant in the Army and his mother worked in the War Department.
2. Salazar is one of eight children and grew up
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U.S. News & World Report
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/obama/2009/3/6/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-ken-salazar.html?s_cid=rss:10-things-you-didnt-know-about-ken-salazar
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...Ken Salazar was born on March 2, 1955, in Alamosa, Colo., to Henry and Emma Salazar. During World War II, Salazar's father was a staff sergeant in the Army and his mother worked in the War Department. 2. Salazar is one of eight children and grew up on a family...
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U.S. News & World Report
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/obama/2009/3/6/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-ken-salazar.html?s_cid=rss:10-things-you-didnt-know-about-ken-salazar
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The Interior Department has decided not to punish Idaho and Montana for lack of cooperation received from Wyoming.
In a “Pen and Pad” teleconference today, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar told reporters
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New West Network
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced a slowdown of the Bush administration's rush to open new areas of the Outer Continental Shelf to new oil and gas drilling -- but said he would most likely leave in place the plan to drill off Virginia's coast
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Facing South
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FacingSouth/~3/537470102/offshore-drilling-slowdown-excludes-virginia.html
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U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar speaks during a press conference at the Department of the Interior. (Photo: Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar took repeated shots this afternoon at the departed Bush
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The Caucus
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Democrats in Congress and conservation groups have asked the White House to reverse a raft of last-minute Bush administration environmental policies, including measures that let government agencies ignore the endangered species law, eased air-quality
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10Connects.com
http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=100086
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Barack Obama wrote today about "The Actions America Needs" including a strategy to free America from its dependence on foreign oil.
But, actions speak louder than words.
Yesterday, Barack Obama's Interior Secretary Ken Salazar cancelled oil and gas
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Gateway Pundit
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/02/change-team-obama-scraps-oil-and-gas.html
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LAKEWOOD, Colo. -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday that he will revisit a sex-and-drugs scandal that rocked his agency in his bid to clean up ethical lapses at the nation's biggest landowner.
Telling reporters that "there's a new sheriff
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Casper Star-Tribune
http://casperstartribune.net/articles/2009/01/30/news/wyoming/0f0a207457e736f78725754e000171d9.txt
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Source: Reuters
Wed Jan 28, 2009 9:01pm GMT
WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Wednesday the Obama administration was open to oil drilling in new offshore areas as part of a comprehensive plan to overhaul U.S.
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Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3711812
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Allard told the Rotarians that there were times when his former profession was called into play sort of on the Senate floor.
I wasnt the only doctor in the Senate, Allard said. Dr. (William) Frist (of Tennessee) was the majority leader of the Senate at
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The Coloradoan
http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20090124/WINDSORBEACON01/90123013/1131/rss10
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WASHINGTON, D.C. Jan. 20, 2009 - Ken Salazar, a fifth-generation Coloradan who served as the state's U.S. Senator, Attorney General and Director of Natural Resources, was confirmed today by a unanimous vote in the U.S. Senate to become the 50th
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YubaNet
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Yubanet/~3/518814786/Ken-Salazar-Confirmed-as-50th-Secretary-of-the-Interior.php
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...WASHINGTON — Sen. Ken Salazar bid a soft-spoken farewell to the U.S. Senate, celebrating the family heritage and values that put him on the way to joining President-elect Barack Obama's cabinet as Interior Secretary. In his last, televised address on the Senate...
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Vail Daily
http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20090116/NEWS/901169935/-1/rss06
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WASHINGTON Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., is President-elect Barack Obamas choice to lead the U.S. Department of Interior. Calling Salazar my dear friend, Obama announced his selection Dec. 17 with the senator, decked in a cowboy hat, standing smiling at
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New America Media
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=f4d1ae007c5d24705925fd0b0215f7cf&from=rss
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Sen. Ken Salazar, the Colorado Democrat who is President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for secretary of the interior, will inherit a department riddled with incompetence and corruption, captive to industries that it is supposed to regulate and is far
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Worcester Telegram & Gazette
http://www.telegram.com/article/20081220/NEWS/812200331/1017/RSS01&source=rss
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Congressman, still upbeat, says, 'I have a good job'
Other than complaining about a bad cold, U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva was relatively upbeat Thursday, even though he lost his bid for interior secretary.
He blamed his inability to get the job partly on
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AZ starnet.com
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/272413.php
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Ken Salazar, Obama's choice to head the Department of the Interior, is provoking controversy in the environmental community. Many activists, particularly among grassroots conservation groups in the West, are criticizing the pick, while some industry
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Grist
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...Sen. Ken Salazar, a Colorado Democrat, is President-elect Barack Obama's choice to be his secretary of the interior. Salazar, a former director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources and state attorney general, is a farmer and rancher whose family...
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Salt Lake Tribune
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...-- Sen. Ken Salazar, President-elect Barack Obama's choice to run the Interior Department, is a Colorado Democrat who has opposed Bush administration efforts to open more Western land for oil-shale exploration, but worked with Republicans to broker a deal...
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Wall Street Journal
http://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/xml/rss/3_7011/~3/6m4_8xQM00U/SB122947337490512319.html
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...secretary of agriculture and will introduce Vilsack tomorrow at a news conference in Chicago, where he will also name Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) as his secretary of interior, a senior Democratic official said. Vilsack, 58, who dropped out of the presidential...
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The Washington Post
http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032400102_xml/~3/QenJwTaUFsk/salazar_nomination_for_interio.html
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...be happier with President-elect Obamaâs selections. Similarly, the president-electâs reported choice of Colorado Senator Ken Salazar as Secretary of the Interior is a major step forward. Â Senator Salazar, who as Interior Secretary will be the chief caretaker...
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National Journal
http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2008/12/obama-energy-environmental-team.php?rss=1#1200154
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...and endangered species," said Oregon Wild spokesman Sean Stevens. "And I don't think we have the same sort of confidence in Ken Salazar. Hopefully we can grow to have that confidence." Adds Kieran Suckling of the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity:...
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NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98347731&ft=1&f=1003
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...Mike Coffman, was elected to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo in the 6th Congressional District. Ciruli said that in Ken Salazar, Senate Democrats would lose a valuable lawmaker known for seeking bipartisan support — but that he could be even more valuable...
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Boston Herald
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...like public transportation and pro-environmental initiatives. Ken in Interior strengthens our state's national presence. KEN SALAZAR has been a fave senator of mine; I have even been a small contributor to his campaign from here in TX. I think he will be an...
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The Washington Post
http://feeds.voices.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=7a015a0b28337712fd72a6735fc6de73
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...in Colorado, with leading contenders to replace him including Denver's mayor and Salazar's brother, U.S. Rep. John Salazar. Ken Salazar has been chosen by Obama as interior secretary, an official familiar with the selection of Obama's Cabinet said Monday....
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Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2008/12/16/nomination_could_set_off_chain_reaction_in_colo?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Top+political+stories
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...for free? In case you thought merit was back in fashion, think again. Caroline Kennedy throws her hat into the ring. Sen. Ken Salazar gets picked for Secretary of the Interior. So: “Like the governors of Illinois, New York, and Delaware, the Democratic governor...
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Contentions
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/46881
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...in the past few years as voters have aligned themselves more and more with Democrats. "At this point, the rumors about Ken Salazar aren't confirmed," he said. "But he has been an outstanding senator and would be an outstanding interior secretary." Steve Welchert,...
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Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_11240669?source=rss
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...Salazar to be tapped for Obama’s Interior Secretary! Ken Salazar will be Obama’s Interior Secretary. Salazar is currently on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and is Director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources. Salazar’s work has...
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Lalate News
http://news.lalate.com/2008/12/15/ken-salazar-obama/
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...The Denver Post announced today that Ken Salazar is Obama's choice to head the Interior. Salazar has served in the Senate since 2005, and where he has been a member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee as well as the Agriculture Committee. Salazar...
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Left in the West
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...DENVER, Colorado — The expected nomination of Democratic U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar to President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet could set off a series of political dominoes in Colorado, with leading contenders to replace him including Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper...
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Vail Daily
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...Sen. Ken Salazar is a leading contender to become President-elect Barack Obamaâs Interior secretary, two sources have confirmed. Reuters News Service used even stronger language in a report Sunday, saying Salazar had become the top candidate for the job. Alas,...
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RedState
http://www.redstate.com/blog/2008/12/15/salazar-for-interior-and-salazar-for-senate/
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...in the 3rd Congressional District largely because of name recognition and the millions of dollars Democrats spent to get Ken Salazar elected, Ciruli said. Hickenlooper, Denver's quirky mayor who won office with a campaign promising to chop down parking meters,...
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