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A California legislative committee rejected a plan to install solar panels on half of new homes built in the state. Both the California senate and the Schwarzenegger administration are strongly in favor of the solar mandate, but it was soundly defeated in the California Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee in favor of a much weaker bill. An analysis by the committee's staff found that the Governor's solar mandate would cost residential users an average of $3.72 a year, and lawmakers were unwilling to support a rate increase….Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island has announced that he will probably not vote for Bush. Since Kerry will comfortably win his state, Chafee says he will probably write in a candidate.The Republican said the party's direction in the future will determine his political career as well. He said he's "not OK" with the conservative platform from the Republican convention, but would not say if he'd consider switching parties in his next election in 2006….Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-CO) wore "full native costume to the Senate floor in honor of his American Indian heritage"…."He's accusing me of screwing a goat. How do I prove to you I didn't? Do I bring you every goat in Montana?" -- MT GOV's Brian Schweitzer (D), on allegations against him in a push poll (Great Falls Tribune)….Asked by a student why there is no GOP outcry over the Iraq war, Bob Dole replied: "I wish you limited success" (AP). ...Ex-Pres. Clinton "has confirmed his first public appearance since his heart surgery three weeks ago": a speech at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, 11/9 (AP). …."Massive voter registration drives" in MN have caused Sec/State Mary Kiffmeyer (R) "to nearly exhaust a supply" of 1.5M voter registration forms this year (St. Paul Pioneer Press)…..Billionaire George Soros announced that he would spend as much as $3M "on a month-long, multi-state speaking tour
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