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Re: Carnival fuel charge controversy - the best government that Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:07:21 -0400

george@cruisemaster.com (George=A0Leppla) wrote:

>http://blogs.courant.com:80/travel_columnists_
>leblanc/2008/03/fight-over-carn.html

>Seems that Carnival isn't refunding fuel
>surcharges for two reasons:

>They had a clause in their brochure stating
>that they could impose them.

>They got prior approval for the surcharges f
>rom Florida State Attorney General Charlie
>Crist.

>5 days after that opinion was given, HAL and

>Princess cruise lines each donated $250,000
>to the Florida Republican Party and Charlie
>Crist is now Governor.

>Ain't nothing dirty goin' on here!

I imagine the executives at Royal Caribbean in hindsight wish that they
had made a similar contribution.

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