Rachel Maddow - Koch-backed AG helps hide chemical dangers

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[Gothmog]

1. Living in Texas, this scares me

Greg Abbott is an idiot and this is a bad policy

[benld74]

2. AND thiijngs such as this is WHY Texas draws companies

LACK of REGULATION of INDUSTRY

[Jack Rabbit]

3. This is outright corruption

Don Siegelman is in a federal pen for less, and that's assuming he's guilty (which he probably isn't, but I digress).

There is no difference between a large campaign contribution and a bribe. Denials like the one Koch Industries issued about a linkage between Chase Koch's #25K bribe[/strike campaign contribution and Mr. Abbott's ruling is probably the kind of evidence that Chief Justice Roberts or any of the other Supreme Shysters cite to claim that there is no evidence of any linkage between a bribe large campaign contribution and government actions that, like this one, are unreasonably favorable to the business of the one making the bribe generous campaign contribution. Anyone with any of the common sense that the Supreme Shysters or the employees at Koch Industries' PR department clearly lack would just assume there is a linkage.

How on earth does Mr. Abbot justify such a ruling? That perhaps there's no evidence that ammonium nitrate is volatile? If he believes that there's no evidence of anthropogenic climate change, then he probably believes that, too. Or perhaps that common people just have no right to know that the warehouse down the street might explode at any moment. Like this:
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Texas isn't a miracle. It's a preview of what the world will look like under the TPP.

[Moostache]

4. Saw this segmentr on last night's broadcast and was furious...

I am offended not just because of the pure lunacy of REDUCING regulations on storage of potentially dangerous chemicals, but also because as someone who has worked in the chemical industry for 20+ years now, I have seen first hand many times just how fast things can go horribly wrong without proper respect for conditions or planning for contingencies.

If these jackass politicians are A-OK with lining their pockets to turn a blind eye, then that is on the state voters to get rid of that kind of representation; but these business owners trying to cut corners and "save" money by doing this should be held 100% accountable for ALL of the ill effects of their actions...whether its unsafe storage, cutting maintenance costs by ignoring unsafe or worn out equipment, cutting staffing to the bone to squeeze every last $0.05 out of the ones who are kept, these owners KNOWN better and simply do not care. Its the worship of profits over people yet again...

I hope to god nothing happens to innocent citizens, but it would not break my heart to read about a dead CEO killed in an explosion during his visit to the facility some day...or better still to read about the conviction of a CEO for allowing dangerous chemicals to seep, leak or evaporate into public areas.