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Revision as of 18:15, 20 December 2004 by 160.253.0.248 (talk) (Occidental petroleum; AIDS drugs; Cockburn-St. Clair book; a few more notes)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)One problem I have with this article is that it presents only Gore contoversies that favor the man.
- If you know of any Gore controversy that does not favor him, feel free to add it. --Chan-Ho Suh 03:15, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)
Occidental petroleum; AIDS drugs; Cockburn-St. Clair book; a few more notes
The connection between VP Gore and Occidental Petroleum was at least a minor controversy. Gore's father (Sen. Albert Gore, Sr.) was closely tied to Occidental.
Especially during the 2000 campaign, AIDS activists caused considerable grief for Gore in demontrations alleging that Gore was in league with pharmaceutical companies in preventing inexpensive life-saving drugs from helping AIDS victims in Africa and elsewhere.
The Cockburn-St. Clair book, Al Gore: A User's Manual (2000), is a rather nasty slamming of Gore on all sorts of grounds. Even though their work is exceptionally well documented, it is written from an intensely anti-Gore perspective, with pens dipped in clever venom. Some of their more awful stories about Gore (even though based in fact) seem too unpleasant to repeat in an encyclopedia, especially allegations that did not involve widespread controversy at the time. (For example, Cockburn and St. Clair report that, despite Gore's hypocritical posturing in a famous Convention speech against the evils of tobacco, where he spoke poignantly and tearfully before a national audience about having held the hand of his dying sister----a cancer victim----Gore had shortly before that speech been boasting publicly to tobacco associations that he himself was a tobacco farmer.)
The WTI incinterator episode (East Liverpool, Ohio) is probably an important enough controversy to be included within a separate sub-heading under the environmental rubric. Also, it was shortly after (and perhaps because of) the big WTI-float anti-Gore protest outside the White House that Pennsylvania Avenue was blocked off to vehicular traffic.