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Maine and Venezuela

I don't know if any other co-publishers are from Maine, but there is an interesting phenomenon here regarding discounted heating oil from Venezuela.

Our Governor, Baldacci, a Democrat, decided that he would not accept Venezuela's offer of cheap heating oil this season because of Hugo Chavez' remarks at the U.N, thereby depriving a large number of his constituents (Maine is a very poor state) of a life-saving resource. Chavez, of course, was right about Bush, but expressed himself a little too mildly.

Since Baldacci's refusal, however, someone has been running expensive TV ads depicting children and the elderly freezing in the dark, with a telephone number through which Mainers can request individual assistance.

The name on the ads is Joseph Kennedy.

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