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TX Gov. Perry to sneak through radioactive waste dump during holidays

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Red HOT Alert! While we are trying to enjoy time with our families during the holidays, Rick Perry pays back one of his biggest donor by dumping radioactive waste in Texas.

This smacks of a political payback. Harold Simmons, whose company owns this dump, has spread his cash far and wide, giving Governor Perry over $1 million since 2000 (making him the governor’s 2nd largest individual donor) and funding campaigns for every member of the Texas Supreme Court among others. While Simmons gets to make billions off this waste, Texans will get the responsibility for managing it for 10,000 years and cleaning it up — Mr. Simmons’ license expires in just 15 years.

And Rick Perry Appointed Waste Czar, Michael Ford, fixed it so YOUR comments are due the day after Christmas.

During the holidays many Americans take time to be with family, to exercise their generosity, and to reflect on all they have to be grateful for. Mr. Ford and 4 of the other commissioners have decided to cynically use this to keep the public out of the process on this enormously important matter.

Texas VOX has the whole story.

Please go to www.TexasNuclearSafety.org where you can learn more about this issue and submit comments to the commission, and I hope you’ll give ’em what-for because they certainly deserve it.

Ahm, had Bill White been elected, we would not be dealing with this right now. IJS

UPDATE: An easy way to comment. Sunday is the deadline!

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Comments

  1. TadGhostHole says

    Texas is officially an environmental abomination… When these deals are all transparently about making Rick Perry's campaign contributors billions how do they even come to fruition? Oh I know! Unelected cronies are given the title Tzar and suddenly it happens.

  2. Anonymous says

    Is this what Pennsylvania has to look forward to since "Toxic Tom" Corbett has been elected? Please give me some hope.