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Article: SIERRA CLUB DEFENDS POSITION ON ALLARD.(City Desk/Local)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- September 26, 2002
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Byline: Lynn Bartels
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
The Sierra Club says U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard voted against the environment when he supported the confirmation of John Ashcroft as attorney general and voted against campaign-finance reform bills.
It used those votes in rating the Republican's environmental record.
If you're wondering what Ashcroft and campaign-finance reform have to do with the environment, you're not alone.
Allard's campaign manager, Dick Wadhams, has repeatedly blasted the nation's foremost environmental group as ``a hypocritical front for the Democratic Party.''
``Their organization has nothing to with the ...