Chavez Allies sweep local elections

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Post #218,934 by JayMehaffey 8/11/05 10:43:51 PM Reply	Chavez Allies sweep local elections [link\|http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBDU5LO9CE.html\|Tampa Bay Online] With nearly all votes counted from Sunday's elections, Venezuela's major newspapers calculated that pro-Chavez candidates won some 47.1 percent of city council posts across the country, while opposition candidates won 17.3 percent and other independent parties had 18.5 percent of posts. Must drive Marlow nuts that somebody like Chavez is more popular there then Bush is here. And with Venezuela primed to be rolling in oil money for a long time, I expect his popularity to stay high. Jay
Post #218,970 by Simon_Jester 8/12/05 6:54:33 AM Reply	Now, if Chavez is smart.... some (even if just 1%) of that oil money makes it way into the hands of that countries poor...
Post #218,988 by mmoffitt 8/12/05 9:52:05 AM Reply	More than that does. [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=208249\|http://z.iwethey.org...?contentid=208249] And I still buy all my gas at Citgo. bcnu, Mikem It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell

Chavez Allies sweep local elections - (JayMehaffey) - (2) - Aug. 11, 2005, 10:43:51 PM EDT

Now, if Chavez is smart.... - (Simon_Jester) - (1) - Aug. 12, 2005, 06:54:33 AM EDT

More than that does. - (mmoffitt) - Aug. 12, 2005, 09:52:05 AM EDT

*snort*
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