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A link to a campaign-finance petition underscores McCain's reformist position.
Launched by husband-and-wife software entrepreneurs Wes Boyd and Joan Blades--Berkeley Systems, the company they founded, is most famous for the "Flying Toasters" screensaver--Censure and Move On was an online petition campaign urging Congress to call off impeachment proceedings, censure President Clinton, and get down to more important business.
McCain faces an uphill battle in the Empire State for two important reasons: Getting on New York's ballot is a notoriously difficult and time-consuming task requiring thousands of petition signatures from all over the state, and the bulk of New York's Republican Party is backing Bush.
Based on such a petition, the Administrator may by regulation make affected EGUs subject to the requirement to hold allowances starting the third year after the first year (starting 2013) when the Administrator makes such a determination.
In England, a group of 40 independent Christian schools plans to petition the European Court of Human Rights to have the ban lifted.