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Lance's LAF position on Bush ride

Wed Aug 17, 2005 at 03:43:35 PM PDT

The Bush-Armstrong bike-fest scheduled for this Saturday has been bothering me.  As an avid cyclist and cyclist fundraiser, I have felt some affinity for Lance, not only for his personal athletic accomplishments but for his dedication to helping fund cancer research through his foundation.  I have been having some difficulty reconciling the admiration I feel for Lance with the utter contempt I feel for our pResident.  So,I sent off an email this morning to the Lance Armstrong Foundation expressing my disapproval of Lances plans to ride with our vacationing pResident.  My email was as follows:

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