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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...January 1997, Bush was in a meeting with Ralph Marquez, his appointee to the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, the state's environmental agency. Near the end of the meeting, one of Bush's staff members made a reference to something called "grandfathered plants." "What are those?" Bush asked. Marquez explained that in 1971, when the state's Clean Air Act was passed, the bill had exempted all existing industrial plants from the new antipollution regulations. (Texas is funny that way.) Lawmakers assumed that many of these aging plants would soon shut down, but that didn't happen. They just...
...candor used against him. Fair enough. As for South Carolina, where this week's primary may decide his fate, Bush seemed genuinely confident. "You can't win the Republican primary sounding like a Democrat," he said of McCain as he squinted into the sun. "Not in this state...
...Bush with his fellow Governors and got 18 of them to endorse the Texan early last year. He helped Bush write his education proposal and then pitched in to sell it. And in a move Engler thought would secure more than just the nomination, he moved up his state primary by a month, to Feb. 22, so that Michigan would be the real fire wall--the place where Bush's rivals would flame out for good. Engler would see to that himself. As he told TIME last December, "I'm solid asbestos...
...only problem--or even his main one. At a cheerleading dinner in Muskegon (his second on behalf of Bush that night), Engler held up a letter from the newest force in Michigan politics: an outfit called DOGG (Detroiters Out to Get even with Governor Engler). Written by a Democratic state representative, the letter asked 200 Detroit clergymen to urge their mostly Democratic congregations to vote for John McCain in the Republican primary next week. Engler implored his audience to fight back: "We can't let Democrats decide who the Republican nominee is going to be in Michigan...
...their excitement about McCain. The Governor has annoyed a lot of Michiganders since he was first elected in 1990, and he is finding that he is almost as big an issue in the upcoming primary as the candidates. Residents of Detroit are unhappy with the way the state took over the school board and eliminated a residency requirement for city employees. Some public school teachers don't like the way Engler pushed through 173 charter schools. And Democratic-leaning union officials just want to make a little trouble. Though the officials insist they aren't organizing turn-out-the-vote...