Throughout those years, even under Mr. Aristide, who was democratically elected, "a small economic elite has supported a predatory state" shored up by "pervasive repression through army, police and paramilitary groups," the World Bank said in a 2002 study.
"Illinois is ready for change," Mr. Blagojevich (pronounced bluh-GOYA-vich) says as he crisscrosses the state, shoring up his already strong support among the thousands of unionized workers and accusing Mr. Ryan of being conservative to the extreme and "asleep at the switch" as attorney general.
Leatherbacks and greens, both endangered species, also dig-and-drop on the state's shores.
Unlike his counterpart in Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Mr. Barbour has mostly been spared the day-to-day incursion of oil along his state's shores.
In a post on Twitter addressed to Mr. Zinke, Xavier Becerra, California's attorney general, demanded that drilling also be banned off his state's shores.
But she indicated her boss, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, may focus political fire at California, whose Democratic governor, Jerry Brown, also opposes drilling off his state's shores.
Just so I don't misconstrue anything, here's what Mr Barton said this morning:3 50pm: Steve Scalise, a Republican rep from Louisiana, keeps touting a sand barrier plan as if it will unquestionably save his state's shores.
Suspicions Fall on Shrimpers When Lt. Donald Armes of the Mississippi Marine Patrol heard about the rash of dead sea turtles littering the state's shores, his first thought was not of oil but of shrimp boats.
Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, who opposes drilling off that state's shores, talks of increasing the cap to $10 billion, which would open the way for compensation claims as large as the clean-up costs.
