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“Four years back I crowd-funded, and that’s one good model, but the costs were still very substantial. I raised more than I needed, and as you know the balance went to Clean up the Basin !, but between campaign-staff, travel, food, security, and all my PR-guru Da’s amazing posters I still spent better than a hundred million bucks.” ( Read more... )

He wasn’t so happy, but I moved on too, to the anti-dam-demolition candidates, who also needed a lesson in economics because the cost of hydropower was actually down, while gigawatts were up and so, with more smaller turbines, was employment. ( Read more... )

7. Terms and Conditions Apply
ELECTIONS are supposed to be competitive and I have no problem with that, but I also had very little competition. ( Read more... )

After only a little humming and hawing China had accepted the ecological angle, and I gathered a special party subcommittee was gearing up to use the dragons’ departure much as I’d used Medicine Wolf, and begin a ten-year programme for a clean China, with emissions and run-off, domestic, industrial, and agricultural top of the first tranche of ( Read more... )

Sitting up we discovered from the senior agent that we’d slept for eight hours exactly and it was now just short of 6 am by his watch. ( Read more... )

6. Here Be Dragons, and Tatami Matting
WITH the election suddenly due next November people started asking me what sort of campaign I’d be running this time. ( Read more... )

The Vatican was saying nothing but Salt Lake City gave cautious approval, with some Baptist bigwigs. ( Read more... )

I was saved from more teasing by Thor’s announcement that the Hunt with all those apprehended were headed in, and with a round of farewells to owners, diners, and waitstaff while Adam paid the compound bill with a personal card, doubling it as a tip despite protests, we were out of there. ( Read more... )

He remounted fluidly, careless of the lack of saddle or stirrups, and after calling their charge to the hounds amid a crescendo of belling, Herne, hounds, and spectral horses rose into the air, streaming away to the south. ( Read more... )