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Campaign Fizz: Hippies for Harrell

By Erica C. Barnett August 30, 2011

Given that city council member Bruce Harrell's challenger, Brad Meacham, has been portraying himself as the environmental candidate in the race (for example: Meacham opposed the deep-bore tunnel; Harrell supported it), a couple of the contributions on Harrell's latest campaign-finance reports were kind of surprising: Josh Fogt, a former public policy manager for Northwest Harvest who now works for Harrell's lefty (and anti-tunnel) colleague Mike O'Brien, and Earth Day founder and philanthropist Denis Hayes, who co-wrote a widely distributed editorial for Sightline arguing against the tunnel.

Hayes and Fogt each gave Harrell $100.
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