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Grapevine: Effort to get Obama's beer recipe
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Online petition started; FOIA request sent
- Duration 1:51
- Date Aug 21, 2012
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Fresh pickings from the political grapevine this -- tonight this sewer and water department in Detroit.
-- 56000.
Dollars in salary and better efforts per year.
For a ferry here.
That's a -- sure but the department.
Doesn't have -- horses the Michigan capitol confidential reports that while the horseshoe was job description has not been updated since 1967.
The local union contends that it's not possible to eliminate positions from the debt ridden department.
Water department official says the -- were works -- department blacksmith shop which repairs equipment and does -- and welding work.
When solar panel maker Solyndra filed for bankruptcy it left its employees without jobs and taxpayers on the hook.
For its 535.
Million dollar government guaranteed loan.
So when you're also left behind millions upon millions of glass troops.
Many of which will be destroyed however.
Nearly 14100.
Of them.
Went to college.
The University of California Berkeley is using the tubes for an art exhibit called natural discourse that uses the tubes transmit light it cool air.
Into this -- -- like structure.
And finally last week we learned that President Obama travels with his own White House brewed beer.
An online petition requesting the recipe has less than 300 signatures.
So a member of the user generated content site read it went a step further.
And submitted a Freedom of Information Act or for your request.
Along with asking for the necessary ingredients.
The inquiry ends with this quote.
If you could send me a copy.
Of an autograph a copy autographed by the president that is a copy of the recipe.
You'd be the coolest FOIA officer in the whole federal government.
And who could resist that title.
We'll have to wait and see if that tactic works.
Well the US bill.