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In reply to the discussion: Why did Bernie cosponsor a bill and vote to dump Vermont’s nuclear waste in a poor Latino community? [View all]Chitown Kev
(2,197 posts)24. Who is this "they" that you refer to?
I'm not a Clinton supporter. It was Bernie Sanders' position at the time.
and I think that Bernie Sanders is simply a politician with a good schtick...I could have posted this story about Sierra Blanca a long time ago...and it was Paul Wellstone that called HR 629 "enviornmental racism" simply because racism was very blatantly the reason that the cite was chosen...ypu should go an look at Wellstone's late night speech on c-span video as I did, I think that it was one of Wellstone's greatest speeches.
And yes, it was racism.
That the State of Texas had sought from the outset to find a community in which English is a second language is not even a matter of speculation; it was the advice given by two Texas A&M professors in their state-commissioned public opinion study in 1984, at the beginning of the states search for a likely site. The general public everywhere is going to oppose this dump, they found, and the more that people feel they know about the project, the higher their level of opposition is likely to be. A preferred methodology may be to develop public information campaigns targeted at special populations. One population that might benefit from such a campaign is Hispanics, particularly those with little formal education and low incomes. This group is the least informed of all segments of the population. The Authority should be aware, however, that increasing the level of knowledge of Hispanics may simply increase opposition to the site, inasmuch as we have discovered a strong relationship in the total sample between increased perceived knowledge and increased opposition.
http://social-ecology.org/wp/1998/10/the-texas-vermont-maine-nuclear-dump-bringing-environmental-racism-home/
That sounds like racism to me.
Oh, the Texas NAACP was actually against this. So much for that 100 NAACP score.
Bernie Sanders is not perfect on every issue by no means; no politician (not even Paul Wellstone...a man and a progressive that I greatly admire).
A lot of Bernie Sanders supporters cannot bear to hear that Sanders is not perfect.
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Why did Bernie cosponsor a bill and vote to dump Vermont’s nuclear waste in a poor Latino community? [View all]
wyldwolf
Sep 2015
OP
And Uruguayans too. He hates the everliving shit out of them. No one knows why.
DisgustipatedinCA
Sep 2015
#34
Where does his hatred of Latinos and poor rank with his hatred of blacks and gays?
LondonReign2
Sep 2015
#69
He voted for a compact. It was never built there. But later on New York sent its toxic sludge
Skwmom
Sep 2015
#11
He's done nothing in Congress except single-handedly forced through every bit of legislation....
villager
Sep 2015
#27
They think each issue drop exists in a vacuum. It's hilarious watching the Hillionaires flail.
Ed Suspicious
Sep 2015
#102
why did hillary vote for a destructive, costly, and divisive war of choice?
restorefreedom
Sep 2015
#8
A war that slaughtered the fuck out of hundreds of thousands of souls.
DisgustipatedinCA
Sep 2015
#36
In the bill I read there was no site designated and it NEVER built at that site.
Skwmom
Sep 2015
#13
I'm going to guess its because they don't have proper facilities in Vermont.
NCTraveler
Sep 2015
#10
Her husband , the president, signed the bill on september 28.1998 according to the first link.
m-lekktor
Sep 2015
#17
Perhaps they will inform us that it was Bernie, and ONLY Bernie, that forced Clinton
NorthCarolina
Sep 2015
#81
That's what I remember too but the Clinton machine has been busy smearing the record.
beam me up scottie
Sep 2015
#32
S a matter of geology. We need to stop building nuclear pWhere the waste goes iower plants, but
JDPriestly
Sep 2015
#44
Why did Hillary vote for a war that killed half a million people and created millions of refugees?
Cheese Sandwich
Sep 2015
#39
If we are digging up 17 year old records, can we have a word about Mrs. Clinton's vile remarks
Betty Karlson
Sep 2015
#50
If this has been Hillary, we would never hear the end of how she is in the pocket of nuclear dumpers
leftofcool
Sep 2015
#73
It's going to come as a shock to some of the people I see every day over in Vermont
Vinca
Sep 2015
#93