Sierra Blanca and Bernie Sanders.

[JaneyVee]

http://archives.texasobserver.org/issue/1998/09/11#page=11

Since apparently my other post was hidden for quoting the EXACT HEADLINE, I'll let you be the judge.

[Sheepshank]

1. Glad you reposted the link

it's important to note the standards and the paradigms by which our officials want to govern.

[SunSeeker]

3. A bullshit hide if there ever was one. The story is true.

And has a lot of interesting twists and turns. There were charges of "environmental racism" against the Sanders-sponsored legislation that allowed the dumping of Vermont nuclear waste into a mostly Latino border town in Texas, with the help of Bernie's BFF at the time, Dubya:
http://social-ecology.org/wp/1998/10/the-texas-vermont-maine-nuclear-dump-bringing-environmental-racism-home/

Chitown Kev provided a lot of info and links in this thread about it:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251617475

Also, Sanders' wife, Jane, was a Commissioner on the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Commission - Vermont Compact. Here’s the thread that talks about that, with lots of links in there too: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251621460

[pinebox]

4. You really are digging aren't you?

You want to go back that far in time and find shit about Bernie?
Let me get my suitcase out and open it because it's stuffed full of crap about Hillary.

We can start here.
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/15/us/hillary-clinton-says-she-once-tried-to-be-marine.html



Or maybe it's this?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1581606/Hillary-Clinton-I-was-instrumental-in-Northern-Ireland-peace-process.html

[JaneyVee]

12. Yeah, and?...

[pinebox]

20. And?

I've got more shit to post about your candidate than you could ever imagine. Don't bring a knife to a gunfight, you'll lose.

[Cha]

21. Oh a threat.. Yeah, I know you don't like hearing that bernie isn't perfect. Too bad.

[pinebox]

24. oh please

Hillary has more baggage than any other candidate, both sides of the aisle.

[Cha]

25. Oh please yourself. bernie isn't perfect. Deal with it.

[pinebox]

28. nobody is

but at least he's not making shit up.

Wave to Chelsea please as she's jogging around the WTC on 9/11.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/03/26/484352/-Hillary-s-OTHER-big-lie-Chelsea-and-9-11

[zappaman]

42. Ok. n/t

[zappaman]

41. Ok. n/t

[Agschmid]

35. And there we have it.

Wow.

[William769]

38. Well we know how Bernie feels about guns.

Thanks for reminding us.

[pinebox]

44. Ya because

holding gun manufacturers liable is like holding Ford liable when some drives drunk. Legit.

[zappaman]

40. Ok. n/t

[Cha]

23. And, he threatened you for researching. Good Work, Janey.. Thank you!

[pinebox]

26. researching?

lol you mean like this?

[Cha]

29. HAHA.. you're so funny.. think you're actually doing something. Go for it.

[pinebox]

30. you like that

I thought you would XD

More? http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5692646&mesg_id=5699469

[Cha]

31. Keep going.

[pinebox]

32. sooooooo

now what?XD

[Cha]

33. Good job!

[pinebox]

34. why thank you

[Cha]

36. No worries.

[pinebox]

37. agreed

[zappaman]

43. Ok. n/t

[zappaman]

39. Ok. N/t

[Cha]

5. I posted it here too.. 'cause I was pissed at the bogus hide.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=761203

[Bluenorthwest]

6. What actually got dumped in Sierra Blanca? Human waste. Where was it from? New York.

Since the pretense is 'we care about Sierra Blanca and other remote and poor Texas cities so much' it might help to know the full story of who has flushed their wasted onto the locals of Sierra Blanca and what powers allowed that business to get rolling there......

New York's Sewage Was a Texas Town's Gold
It is hard to imagine places more different than New York and Sierra Blanca, and the contrast has always underscored the mercenary marriage between the nation's largest city and the small town where it has dumped its sewage since 1992. That year, after Congress had prohibited the city from dumping its sludge in the Atlantic Ocean, New York signed contracts with several companies to treat and transport its sewage. One of them was a Long Island joint venture, which began shipping up to 250 tons every day on the 2,065-mile journey to West Texas. The Texas Observer, the political journal, recently called it ''the poo-poo choo-choo.''
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/27/us/new-york-s-sewage-was-a-texas-town-s-gold.html


Since the OP is so ardently supportive of Sierra Blanca, the OP might want to know that the State of Texas constantly discusses doing more dumping there. One might even think some of DU's most ardent Sierra Blanca advocates would at least know about this but they don't.

[JaneyVee]

10. Nuclear waste.

[Bluenorthwest]

7. Hey OP, know anyone who lived in NY 92-2001? Those folks sent their sewage to Sierra Blanca.

Many of them did not even know and some still don't. It's hard to imagine, but many NYers don't even think about where their shit goes when they flush, for a decade the answer was 'Sierra Blanca Texas'.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/27/us/new-york-s-sewage-was-a-texas-town-s-gold.html

[JaneyVee]

11. Glad to see that train ended under Senator Clinton.

[Bluenorthwest]

8. NYers actually wanted their poop packed onto trains and sent to Sierra Blanca. And they did it.

For nine years, during which none of them gave it a second thought when giving it a second flush.

[workinclasszero]

9. Wow

Thats an eye opener, eh?


And you got a hide for this info? SMH

Just damn!

[hill2016]

13. imagine

what the GOP could dig up if they really started trying

[OilemFirchen]

14. Qualifies as the likely the worst hide of the year. (n/t)

[SidDithers]

15. DU rec...

'cause that was a shitty hide.

Sid

[Starry Messenger]

16. k&r

[Persondem]

17. Thank you for sticking with this. The hide was bs.

K & R

[Armstead]

18. I suppose it doesn't matter that Vermont's power plant is very close to....

A main reservoir for Boston, also very close to the water system feeding into the Connecticut River and the Housatonic Rivers which flow down to Long Island passing through many communities along the way....and is also near the headwaters of the Hudson River and its watershed, which also drains into NYC and one of the largest and most densely populated regions of the country.

A lot of black, brown and white people in that region, including many who are poor.

[William769]

19. Thery can't handle the truth.

[Cha]

27. Ya think!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=764225

[jfern]

22. There were like 3 threads that weren't hidden

But I guess that wasn't enough.