Feingold returns to Alabama

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The morality quote at the end of the story from the restaurant manager is especially bizarre.

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050328/APN/503280994&cachetime=3&template=dateline

Wisconsin senator revisits Alabama city after tempest last year

By PHILLIP RAWLS
Associated Press Writer

U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, a Democrat who drew fire for comments about Greenville last year, returned to a warm reception Monday, saying he saw "a wonderful community" instead of one marked by poverty.

Feingold, a possible Democratic presidential candidate, offered no apology for the commentary he wrote in December for Salon.com, and town officials didn't ask him for one. They all smiled and said nothing but nice things - in contrast to the exchanges last year after he questioned why cities like Greenville kept voting Republican.

This time he got an official tour of the town's $17 million high school, two new auto parts manufacturing plants, and the local YMCA. Feingold said Greenville, like many towns in his own state, suffered substantial losses in manufacturing jobs in the late 1990s due, in part, to trade agreements, but is making a comeback thanks to leaders who won't give up.

Greenville is proof that "a hearty dose of optimism goes a long way," he told local officials.

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[Selatius]

1. There's nobody in the south to counter the Republicans

That town of Greenville is wall-to-wall Republicanism. There's a few Democrats, but that's it. It'd sure help if presidential candidates actually came to these states instead of writing them off. If you don't even try, how could you possibly hope to win again?