Green Eggs, No Ham
The White House today unveiled the design for the eggs to be used in this year's White House Easter Egg Roll. The White House is touting them as " the ‘greenest’ egg in White House Easter Egg Roll history." No, they didn't add pesto to the eggs (although pesto scrambled eggs are delicious, we suggest you try them immediately) but they did use 31% less paperboard than the 2008 egg and used renewable, vegetable oil based inks. You can purchase your own egg online.
In another break from tradition, the White House announced yesterday that it distributed tickets for the Egg Roll to gay and lesbian parents to ensure these families were included in the event. According to the AP, the White House reached out to various LGBT organizations and over 100 of these families are expected to attend. A similar number of gay parents and their children attended the Egg Roll in 2006 (although they were not sought out by the White House), causing great consternation amongst some religious conservatives.
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Now based in DC, Katie was named Political Correspondent in November 2008 and covers the White House and Capitol Hill.
Katie received her Master of Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she was the 2005 Menzies Scholar. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland and completed her honors thesis on media representations of the East Timor conflict at the University of Melbourne. She was born and raised in Brisbane, Australia.
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