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Denver Gives DNC Gas Tax Holiday

5:45 PM, Jul 22, 2008 • By JOHN MCCORMACK
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Via the McCain campaign, the Rocky Mountain News reports:

The committee hosting the Democratic National Convention is using the city's gas pumps to fill up on fuel, avoiding state and federal highway taxes, officials said today.

"There's something there that just doesn't seem right to me because, in a sense, you're saying then that the officials who pass the laws are not willing to live by them, and that concerns me," Councilwoman Jeanne Faatz said.

Denver's mayor John Hickenlooper says that the RNC is getting the same break from the city of St. Paul, but how does this square with Hickenlooper's pledge to "make this the greenest convention in the history of the planet"?

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