- From Carol Guilford Carolg8@att.net
- To Aspartame Support aspartame@yahoogroups.com
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/809
- 2-21-2
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- The proof that George W. Bush, Jr. is a consumer of
aspartame
(Equal, NutraSweet) is on the front page of the Chicago Sun Times,
Thursday
Sept. 27-- in color, a picture of the President with the mayor of the
city (Daley), sitting at a booth in a coffee shop with their diet Cokes
on full display.
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- The President had a napkin over the top of his can, which
in bar lingo means ,"don't remove this-- I'm not finished."
Daley's face was bright beet red (a symptom of aspartame poisoning,
also).
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- An official story is Bush choked on a pretzel, while
he watched a football game. In his own words, "I hit the deck."
Well, he may have choked, but, in my educated opinion, it wouldn't have
mattered what he had in his mouth. On the list of 92 symptoms caused by
aspartame that the FDA was forced to reveal in 1995, Difficulty Swallowing
is No. 29. Fainting (which he did) is No. 36, Unconsciousness (the state
he was in) and Coma is No. 56.
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- H.J. Roberts, MD discusses 'unexplained blackouts' in
his medical text, "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic" http://www.sunsentpress.com
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- I have read many aspartame poisoning cases recently,
because I was in Atlanta with Betty Martini, founder of Mission Possible,
the worldwide volunteer organization that warns the world about aspartame
(Equal, NutraSweet) poisoning. Betty and I faxed hundreds of 'seizure'
and 'vision loss' and 'brain tumor' case histories to the lawyers who
are handling the class-action lawsuit against aspartame. If you want to
sign on, go to http://www.dorway.com
. There is a support group.
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- It is possible the President could have had a seizure.
There are 4 different kinds on the list. Phenylalanine (50% of aspartame)
depletes serotonin in the brain, lowering the seizure threshold. Dr.
Richard
Wurtman testified to this at the 1986 Senate Aspartame Safety Hearings.
dick@mit.edu
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- Another possible aspartame symptom George Bush displayed
were lesions on his face, that were removed and explained by his doctors
as, "Too much sun." Rash is No. 12; Other Skin is No. 24.
It is my opinion that the methanol (wood alcohol, 10% of aspartame) is
attempting to leave the body through the skin. In 1984, Dr. Woodrow Monte
predicted the dangers of the methanol in aspartame in his paper:
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- "Aspartame: Methanol and the Public Health"
and in 1999, a study by Trocho et al in Barcelona confirmed Monte's
nightmare
by proving the methanol in aspartame breaks down into formaldehyde, which
collects in the fatty tissues and liver. http://ww.presidiotex.com/
barcelona/index.html
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- I read a letter to President Bush from Ken Lay, when
he was CEO of Enron, and Dubya was Texas governor. Ken wished his friend
George the best on his upcoming arthroscopic surgery on his knee. Some
aspartame victims need this surgery even after they stop 'using', because
aspartame harms the synovial fluid that bathes the joints. Joint and bone
pain is No. 31 on the FDA list. After the surgery, Bush wrote to Lay that
he was doing well, but that he would not be able to jog for a month.
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- Most amazing about Bush and his aspartame (Equal,
NutraSweet)
use, is that his Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, did not/has not
told his Commander in Chief about the dangers of aspartame. Some friend.
Donald Rumsfeld left the Ford White House to become CEO of Searle
Laboratory.
Rumsfeld told Searle, who owned the original aspartame patent, that he
would "call in all his markers" to get aspartame approved.
Approval had been denied, because it was a certainty the neurotoxic
aspartame
was causing brain tumors. That aspartame causes brain tumors, was proved
by Dr. John Olney (Washington University), but he was media-blitzed, in
1996.
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- The story of aspartame's approval is the crime of the
20th century. See my article: "No Hoax, Crime of the Century",
at http://aspartamekills.com
and also see http://www.dorway.com/upipart1.txt
UPI reporter Gregory Gordon: 96K 3-part expose Oct 1987
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- The power that keeps the people poisoned is mighty;
it controls the main-stream press, the medical hierarchy, the FDA.
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- We are all of us, including presidents (Clinton was a
diet Coke drinker, too), being poisoned by the neurotoxic bio-terrorist
drug, aspartame-- now omnipresent in more than 10,000 food, drink and
medicinal
products.
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- To: Cptn. Eleanor C. "Connie" Marino,
USN
- Physician to the President
- White House Medical Unit #105
- Whashington., D.C. 20502
- 202-757-2481 2483 fax
- February 21, 2002
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- Dear Cptn. Marino:
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- This post presents evidence that indicates that President
Bush could be in danger right now from a not unusual toxicity reaction
to a common food additive, aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal), about 200 mg
in every can of diet soda. To simplify, 10% of aspartame is methanol (wood
alcohol), a component of the molecule, which is immediately released into
the body after ingestion. This dose of methanol is thus 20 mg from each
can, while the EPA limit for drinking water is 7.8 mg daily. Methanol
is a deadly cumulative poison. So aspartame provides methanol, which
converts
to formaldehyde in the tissues, as proved in a 1998 radioactive tracer
study in Spain:
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- Life Sci 1998;63(5):337-49 Sra. Carme Trocho, Sra.
Rosario
Pardo, Dra. Immaculada Rafecas, Sr. Jordi Virgili, X. Remesar, Dr. Jose
Antonio Fernandez-Lopez, Dr. Marià Alemany Fac. Biologia Tel.:
(93)4021521,
FAX: (93)4021559 alemany@porthos.bio.ub.es bioq@sun.bq.ub.es
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- Formaldehyde derived from dietary aspartame binds to
tissue components in vivo. Trocho C, Pardo R, Rafecas I, Virgili J,
Remesar
X, Fernandez-Lopez JA, Alemany M, Departament de Bioquimica i Biologia
Molecular, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
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- "It is concluded that aspartame consumption may
constitute a hazard because of its contribution to the formation of
formaldehyde
adducts."
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- Woodrow C. Monte, Ph.D., Professsor of Food Science,
Director of the Food Science and Nutrition Laboratory, Arizona State
University,
Tempe, Arizona 85287 6411 South River Drive #61 Tempe, Arizona
85283-3337
Phone/Fax 001 602-965-6938 woody.monte@asu.edu
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- Dr. Woodrow C. Monte, "Aspartame: Methanol, and
the Public Health," Journal of Applied Nutrition, Volume 36, No. 1,
pages 42-54, 1984. This study is available at: http://www.dorway.com/wmonte.t
xt
.
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- Abstract: Aspartame (L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methyl
ester), a new sweetener marketed under the trade name NutraSweet, releases
into the human bloodstream one molecule of methanol for each molecule of
aspartame consumed.
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- This new methanol source is being added to foods that
have considerably reduced caloric content and, thus, may be consumed in
large amounts. Generally, none of these foods could be considered dietary
methanol sources prior to addition of aspartame. When diet sodas and soft
drinks, sweetened with aspartame, are used to replace fluid loss during
exercise and physical exertion in hot climates, the intake of methanol
can exceed 250 mg/day or 32 times the Environmental Protection Agency's
recommended limit of consumption for this cumulative toxin (8). [EPA limit:
7.8 mg/day in water. A 12-oz can of diet soda gives 20 mg
methanol.]
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- There is extreme variation in the human response to acute
methanol poisoning, the lowest recorded lethal oral dose being 100 mg/kg
[10,000 mg for a 100 kg person] with one individual surviving a dose over
ninety times this level (55). Humans, due perhaps to the loss of two
enzymes
during evolution, are more sensitive to methanol than any laboratory
animal;
even the monkey is not generally accepted as a suitable animal model (42).
There are no human or mammalian studies to evaluate the possible
mutagenic,
teratogenic, or carcinogenic effects of chronic administration of methyl
alcohol (55).
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- The average intake of methanol from natural sources
varies
but limited data suggests an average intake of considerably less than 10
mg/day (8). [A 12-oz can of diet soda has 20 mg methanol.] Alcoholics
may average much more, with a potential range of between 0 and 600 mg/day,
depending on the source and in some cases the quality of their beverages
(15).
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- Ethanol, the classic antidote for methanol toxicity,
is found in natural food sources of methanol at concentrations 5 to 500,000
times that of the toxin (Table 1). Ethanol inhibits metabolism of methanol
and allows the body time for clearance of the toxin through the lungs and
kidneys (40, 46).
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- The question asked is whether uncontrolled consumption
of this new sweetener might increase the methanol intake of certain
individuals
to a point beyond which our limited knowledge of acute and chronic human
methanol toxicity can be extrapolated to predict safety. [end of
Abstract]
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- "Many of the signs and symptoms of intoxication
due to methanol ingestion are not specific to methyl alcohol. For example,
headaches, ear buzzing, dizziness, nausea and unsteady gait (inebriation),
gastrointestinal disturbances, weakness, vertigo, chills, memory lapses,
numbness and shooting pains in the lower extremities hands and forearms,
behavioral disturbances, and neuritis (55)."
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- Stephen K. Van Den Eeden, T.D. Koepsell, W.T. Longstreth,
Jr,
- G. van Belle, J.R. Daling, B. McKnight, "Aspartame
ingestion and
- headaches: a randomized crossover trial," 1994,
Neurology, 44, 1787-93:
- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care
Program
- 3505 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94611-5714
skv@dor.kaiser.org
- 510-526-6020 510-596-6100
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- In their introduction, they commented:
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- "In addition, the FDA had received over 5,000
complaints
as of July, 1991 in a passive surveillance system to monitor adverse side
effects. (17) Neurologic problems constitute the primary complaints in
these and several other case series, with headaches accounting for 18 to
45 %, depending on the case series reported. (17-19)"
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- A fairly complete list of the usual symptoms in the many
cases includes:
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- * headaches, all kinds of body and joint pain (or
burning,
tingling, tremors, twitching, spasms, or numbness)
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- * "mind fog", "feel unreal", poor
memory, confusion, anxiety, irritability, depression, mania, insomnia,
dizziness, slurred speech, ringing in ears, sexual problems, nausea,
seizures,
poor vision, hearing, or taste
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- * fatigue, weakness
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- * red face, itching, rashes, burning eyes or
throat
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- * hair loss
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- * obesity, bloating, poor or excessive hunger or
thirst
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- * diarrhea or constipation
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- * breathing problems, asthma
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- * racing heart, high blood pressure, erratic blood sugar
levels.
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- Obviously, the neurotoxicological impairments are
critical
concerns
- in the case of a war-time President.
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- Ralph G. Walton, M.D., Ph.D.,
- Prof. of Clinical Psychology, Northeastern Ohio
Universities,
- College of Medicine, Dept. of Psychiatry, Youngstown,
OH 44501, and
- Chairman, The Center for Behavioral Medicine, Northside
Medical Center,
- 500 Gypsy Lane, P.O. Box 240 Youngstown, OH 44501
330-740-3621
- rwalton193@aol.com
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- "Seizure and mania after high intake of aspartame," 1986,
- Psychosomatics, 27: 218-20:
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- An age 54 woman with 20 years of depression had been
stable for 11 years with medication. She had a grand mal seizure, followed
by mania, insomnia, flight of ideas, and irritability. A brief
hospitalization
and CT scan found no apparent cause. After three weeks, this led to
psychiatric
hospitalization. Two days later, it was found that during the several
weeks before the seizure and onset of mania, she had started using
aspartame
in place of sugar in her iced tea, a gallon daily. Four days later, the
mania subsided, and 13 months later she continued to function well, and
enjoying her large amounts of iced tea, with sugar, not aspartame.
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- "The possible role of aspartame in seizure
induction,"
1987, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Phenylalanine
and the Brain, Wortman, RJ, Walker E (eds.), Center for Brain Sciences
and Metabolism Charitable Trust, Cambridge, England:
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- Nine cases, ages 19 to 91, briefly summarized:
"Case
4: A 61 year-old woman had been in excellent health until she began
consuming
an average of half a gallon per day of sugar-free beverages prepared with
"Crystal Light" mixes. She experienced the onset of headaches,
in the absence of a previous headache history. After three months of daily
headaches, she experienced a generalized seizure and was hospitalized.
CAT scan and EEG were normal. After discontinuing the use of all
aspartame-containing
products, she has been headache- and seizure-free."
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- http://www.dorway.com/tldaddic.html 5-page review
- "Aspartame (NutraSweet) Addiction"
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- H.J. Roberts in "Townsend Letter", Jan 2000
HJRobertsMD@aol.com
- http://www.sunsentpress.com/
sunsentpress@aol.com
- Sunshine Sentinel Press P.O.Box 17799 West Palm Beach,
FL 33416
- 800-814-9800 561-588-7628 561-547-8008 fax
-
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/669
- 1038-page medical text "Aspartame Disease: An
Ignored Epidemic"
- published May 30 2001 $ 85.00 postpaid data from
1200 cases
- available at http://www.amazon.com
- over 600 references from standard medical research
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- http://www.aspartameispoison.com/contents.html 34 chapters
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- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/790
- RTM: Moseley: Journal of Neurosurgery:
- review Roberts "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored
Epidemic"
2.7.2 rmforall
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- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/652
- Ann Pharmacother 2001 Jun;35(6):702-6
- Relief of fibromyalgia symptoms following
- discontinuation of dietary excitotoxins.
- terpening@fpmg.health.ufl.edu cterpeni@ufl.edu
- Smith JD, Terpening CM, Schmidt SO, Gums JG.
- Malcolm Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center,
Gainesville,
FL, USA.
- gums@fpmg.health.ufl.edu siggy@hands.ufl.edu
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- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/782
- RTM: Smith, Terpening, Schmidt, Gums:
- full text: aspartame, MSG, fibromyalgia 1.17.2
rmforall
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- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/804
- RTM: Hetle & Eltervaag: 2001 thesis
- abstract: aspartame brain damage in mice:
- Sonnewald 1995 study full text 2.17.2 rmforall
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- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/752
- Headache 2001 Oct;41(9):899-901
- Migraine MLT-Down: An Unusual Presentation of
Migraine
- in Patients With Aspartame-Triggered Headaches.
- [Merck 10-mg Maxalt-MLT, for migraine, has 4 mg
aspartame,
- while 12 oz diet soda has 200 mg.]
- Newman LC, Lipton RB. RLipton@IMRInc.com
- Headache Institute, St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center,
New York
- NY Department of Neurology
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
- Innovative Medical Research
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- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/346
- WebMD: Barclay: Barth:
- survey shows aspartame hurts memory in students
11.9.00
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- http://www.psy.tcu.edu/psy/barth.htm
- Timothy M. Barth Department of Psychology
t.barth@tcu.edu
- Texas Christian University TCU Box 298920 Fort Worth,
TX 76129
- Chairman, Physiological Psychology 817-921-7410
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- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/802
- RTM: 700.club.com: CBN:
- Totheroh & Robertson: aspartame expose 2.13.2
rmforall
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- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/805
- RTM: Ive: UK Daily Mirror Magazine: aspartame toxicity
2.18.2 rmforall
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- Gore Drinks 6 Can Of Diet Coke Daily - Aides
Admit He's Hooked
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- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/512
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- Whitworth: Gore drinks 6 cans Diet Coke daily
- The Times - London
- 11-4-00
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- http://www.dorway.com/hooked.txt
- http://www.the-times.co.uk/article/0,,30131,00.html
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- Aides admit Gore Is hooked On
Coke
- By Damian Whitworth
- http://the-times.co.uk
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- It may not be his most pressing concern but one has to
wonder about the state of Al Gore's teeth.
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- The Vice-President is awake each day before 6am. Within
half an hour he is meeting his campaign staff and cracking open his first
Diet Coke.
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- By the time he goes to bed again half a dozen or more
of the sticky drinks will have been sluiced down.
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- "Okay, so it might not be the kind of breakfast
you or I would have," says a campaign aide. "But these are
high-caffeine
days. He needs his fuel to get through them."
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- A presidential election campaign is a colossal logistical
exercise mounted by an army that marches on its constantly pepped-up blood
sugar levels. If Mr Gore is awake then all his staff are awake too "
along with the travelling press corps, the Secret Service and the hundreds
of people involved in every single event in each 19-hour day.
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- In fact many of the travelling Gore staff are awake long
before the man himself, talking to the campaign war-room in Nashville,
plotting strategies to suggest to the candidate and compiling a briefing
book of press cuttings and talking points that runs to more than 100 pages
every day.
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- Both candidates are trying to visit as many states as
possible before election day. Mr Gore was in Missouri, Iowa and Tennessee
yesterday; Mr Bush, whose schedule is slightly less insane, in Michigan
and West Virginia.
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- Every time Air Force 2 and its following press plane
land, the routine is the same. A motorcade of about 30 vehicles is waiting
on the runway: a limousine, or heavy sports utility vehicle for the
candidate,
another with an open back carrying Secret Service officers armed with
machineguns,
and then a long train of other security vehicles, police cars, staff
minivans
and four coaches carrying the press. The Vice-President then scorches
across
the countryside like a Roman emperor down cleared, sealed-off roads.
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- The Secret Service and an advance team of campaign
workers
usually arrive at each site four days before the event takes place. The
Secret Service ensures that every police officer in the area is on duty
in order to keep the roads clear.
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- The campaign workers, often in teams of just six,
organise
the staging of the events. Contractors are hired to build stages, set up
lights, provide sound systems, confetti-blowing machines and
fireworks.
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- School cafeterias or, as in Los Angeles this week, a
vacant shop, are commandeered as press-filing centres where the
installation
of dozens of phone lines is supervised by a phone company executive who
travels permanently with the campaign. Photocopiers and faxes must be
installed so that schedules and press releases can be printed off and
distributed
immediately to reporters. Caterers are hired to feed the press and
staff.
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- The advance team relies on scores of volunteers from
the local campaign office, and unions often provide drivers and control
crowds. Telephone banks are set up to call registered Democrats and pull
in a crowd. For the huge rallies fliers are distributed across town and
campaign officials make themselves available to local radio and television
stations.
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- Mr Gore has been using celebrities such as the rock star
Jon Bon Jovi and the comedian Bill Cosby to attract an audience and get
it warmed up.
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- Music blaring across a small town ensures that eventually
most people come down to find out what is going on.
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- The smaller-scale events are invitation-only, with guests
carefully screened to ensure they are sympathetic or relevant to the theme
of the day. Whatever the subject of his speech Mr Gore, like Mr Bush,
has to have a mix of people, young and old, black and white, standing
behind
him.
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- Before he arrives the audience is given its orders.
"This
is a serious event not a rally, so no jumping up and down," a campaign
aide told an audience of 200 on a beach in Michigan this week. "And
when you clap, take your gloves off " it makes a better
sound."
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- Many of the events staged by the campaign are not
officially
staged at all. "We just decided to stop and these people were
here,"
a staffer said after the entire motorcade had pulled off a road in Michigan
this week. Mr Gore chatted in front of the cameras with a cluster of
voters
who just happened to be carrying Gore-Liberman posters and be standing
behind a rope line.
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- Once the candidate has left, the focus turns to getting
out the vote. The Democrats have distributed more than half a million
placards
in the key states, and by election day will have made 50 million phone
calls to voters, sent 40 million pieces of mail and 30 million e-mails
to supporters. Some 50,000 volunteers will work in those states on election
day. The Republicans will have sent out 1.6 million placards, made 62
million
phone calls and distributed 110 million articles of mail.
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- There is a certain machismo about the length of the hours
worked. "Our campaign consists of a lot of long days and a lot of
short nights," Chris Lehane, the Gore campaign spokesman, said.
"While
some candidates may look for their feather pillows, Al Gore is looking
for every single undecided voter he can find."
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- Sometimes Mr Gore will end the day sipping a beer with
his brother-in-law and best friend, Frank Hungar, but usually he calls
one of the Air Force 2 stewards, or goes to the hotel minibar and requests
one more can of a certain brand of cola.
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