Green Options » pena http://greenoptions.com/tag/pena Posts tagged 'pena' Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:40:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Peña Channels the Spectre of 1970s Energy Crisis at Democratic Convention in Denver http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/08/27/pena-channels-the-spectre-of-1970s-energy-crisis-at-democratic-convention-in-denver/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/08/27/pena-channels-the-spectre-of-1970s-energy-crisis-at-democratic-convention-in-denver/#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:40:33 +0000 Timothy B. Hurst http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/08/27/pena-channels-the-spectre-of-1970s-energy-crisis-at-democratic-convention-in-denver/

Thousands of Democratic delegates and members of the press may have had one of those “ah-ha” moments at the Pepsi Center in Denver on Tuesday night when former mayor, Secretary of Transportation and Secretary of Energy during the Clinton administration, Federico Peña took to the podium at the Democratic National Convention.

For the vast majority of attendees to the event, plane travel was the preferred method of travel. And of those who flew into Denver, virtually all of them had to drive (or were driven) down Peña Boulevard, which connects Denver International Airport to Interstate 70. As mayor of Denver, Peña led the effort to build the airport - and hence led to the ah-ha moment for the visitors many years later.

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