OLYMPIA — Christie Todd Whitman may have had rocky times occasionally as Environmental Protection Agency chief, but she hit the campaign trail Thursday to sing the praises of the Bush administration.
Whitman, the former moderate Republican governor from New Jersey, was dispatched from the national Bush-Cheney campaign to tout the administration’s record in a political swing state that has a large green vote. The state hasn’t voted Republican since 1984.
She launched what the campaign calls the Washington Natural Resources Team, a group that will organize grassroots efforts in all nine congressional districts to spread the word about the Bush record.
The state Democratic Party and the John Kerry campaign quickly hit back, calling it a dismal record that caters to the energy industry.
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