In a galling move, Rep. McMorris Rodgers blames salmon condition on Seattle
Moving into the season of Lent, I'm thinking of a recognition to bestow on the unworthy: Call it the Pontius Pilate Award.
The name of the Roman governor, who washed his hands of Jesus' fate, could be invoked in cases of 21st Century figures who shirk responsibility. Or those who pick people or places to demonize.
U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., is nominated as an inaugural contestant.
She sought, at a hearing last week, to shift blame for the precarious state of salmon populations -- and orcas -- onto Gov. Jay Inslee and urban areas on shores of Puget Sound. It was in clumsy defense of four federal Snake River dams, which decimated salmon runs on what President George W. Bush once called "the river on the Snake."
"For too long, Gov. Inslee and others have turned a blind eye to the issues in their own backyard: Today I asked @EPAWheeler to look into pollution in the Puget Sound happening under the Governor's nose," McMorris Rodgers tweeted.
McMorris Rodgers argued that if Puget Sound is cleaned up, we can have Snake River dams and salmon and orcas. Huh? Southern resident orca whales, the 73 that are left, don't just feed on Puget Sound's endangered chinook salmon. They range up and down the Pacific Coast: The Columbia-Snake River system is a critical food source. Orca whales feed from salmon that spawn in the Klamath River, off its estuary in northern California. They feed on salmon headed to the Fraser River of British Columbia.
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