On Feb 24, 2008, 3 months before the election, the Sac Bee wrote an article about Mayor Heather Fargo’s dicey travel itinerary on the taxpayer’s dime in the past two years. Very sneaky and strategic on the Bee’s part to release it 3 months before the election..

Mayor’s travels draw criticism
Terri Hardy, SacBee.com, Feb 24, 2008

As part of her quest to make Sacramento the greenest city in the country, Mayor Heather Fargo has seen the world, traveling to London, Alaska, Paris and other far-flung locations to study the impacts of global warming.

Since October 2005, she’s traveled nearly 124,000 miles on 25 trips – 20 of them to climate change conferences or meetings where the environment was prominent on the agendas, city records show….

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