PAUL WELLSTONE: Sierra Blanca-- And Bernie

[zeitgeist]

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misterhighwasted (5,989 posts)

Sanders' are still profiting from Sierra Blanca nuclear waste dump, per their 2014 tax return

Sanders' are still profiting from Sierra Blanca nuclear waste dump, per their 2014 tax return
Apr 16, 2016

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2016/4/16/1516075/-Sanders-are-still-profiting-from-Sierra-Blanca-nuclear-waste-dump-per-their-2014-tax-return?utm_content=bufferde80f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The Sanders’ have partially released their 2014 tax return and on the return, Jane Sanders is still drawing a salary as an alternate commissioner for the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission. (TLLRWD Commissioner)

This is the commission that oversaw the Sierra Blanca dump site, that Sanders voted for and also voted to strip out the Wellstone amendment in conference.

The Wellstone amendment would have given legal recourse to this mostly poor Latino community to fight the placement of this waste dump, if they could prove environmental racism. The compact was passed, with vigorous help from Sanders. Later and fortunately the dump was scuttled by the state of Texas.

This is just for 2014. Mrs. Sanders could have been drawing a salary for years and unless they release more tax returns we'll never know for sure.

 

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Sanders campaign strategist Tad Devine and his then 2004 presidential candidate, Senator John Kerry, thought this was a big deal in 2003 and they attacked Howard Dean’s Sierra Blanca connection then. Sound familiar?

The late Senator Paul Wellstone, John Kerry and Sanders campaign strategist Tad Devine all believed that Sierra Blanca was wrong, then why are the Sanders’ still involved and profiting from nuclear waste dump sites that are more likely to be located in or around poor communities like Sierra Blanca?

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Mr. Sanders was against the Wellstone amendments. Those amendments would have given this poor Hispanic community a “fighting chance”.

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Mr. Sanders eventually voted to have the Wellstone amendments stripped out of the Texas-Maine-Vermont Compact bill in conference.

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Mr. Sanders campaign for President is built around this grand premise of giving power back to the people. A political revolution by the people. When he had the opportunity to give power back to the poor Latino community of Sierra Blanca, he voted against the Wellstone amendments that would have given this community the real power they needed to fight back against environmental racism.

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PAUL WELLSTONE:
"Sierra Blanca--already the site of the largest sewage sludge project in our country--was not so fortunate. The Waste Authority does a scoping study. 
The scoping study says this is not scientifically suitable, but the Waste Authority goes ahead and chooses this community. Why not? Disproportionately poor, disproportionately Latino. This is an issue of environmental justice. The residents of Sierra Blanca, Hudspeth County and west Texas do not want this dump. "

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The original Waste Dump issue was scuttled since it was an election year & GW Bush needed the Latino vote.

Immediately after Bush had won his term, the Bill was again presented for approval by BERNIE SANDERS.

The original Dump Site was quietly moved by the Corporate Investor in Texas, to another location a few miles from the first "scuttled" site.

Bernie Sanders did all he could do for GW Bush & his profiteers, to pave the way for Radioactive Waste Dumping, and with wife Jane on the Board, collecting her $4000 per yr salary, it was a win win deal.
Except for the poorest Latino community in the country.

And here we find out, Jane Sanders is still profiting from her & Bernie's dirty, filthy, environmental racisim.

Bernie & Jane are more in line with the GOP dirty deals than the Real Great Progressive, Senator Paul Wellstone.

There is Nothing Progressive about Bernie nor Jane Sanders .
DeVine & Co have simply run the Sanders campaign by making a "silk purse out of a sows ear".

Its a total scam & a fraud on the American people and a pity some still only see the cool shiny thing.

PAUL WELLSTONE could have taught Bernie Sanders a lot about being a true Progressive. But Bernie Sanders & his wife Jane were always clearly in it for themselves.

#GTFObernie

Bernie, how could you?  Oh noesssssss.....Bernie, oh nooooessss.   Crooked as a dog's hind leg ( with apologies to dogs )

Bernie the white dove is a dirty, dirty bird.  Say, where was he when saint Wellstone bought it?? 

Bernie's alabaster statue has feet of clay.   

This just in.  Turns out that bird on the podium was actually a  Cuckoo.     

[franksolich]

Question.

Methuselah's wife is president, I guess, of some college in Vermont.

In Vermont.

The Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission is a Texas institution.

In Texas.

Why is a Vermontese being paid to help run something down in Texas?

Is this political cronyism, or what?

[txradioguy]

83% of the 553 people that live in Sierra Blanca are white.

WTF are these people talking about "poor Hispanic community"? 

It's a freaking wide spot in the road on I-10

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[zeitgeist]

83% of the 553 people that live in Sierra Blanca are white.

WTF are these people talking about "poor Hispanic community"? 

It's a freaking wide spot in the road on I-10

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Ah yes but remember we can only hold them to the standard "Fake but accurate."  It is after all how it makes you feel.
And in DUland Dr. Feel Good is always IN.

[Duke Nukum]

Ah! So at long last we finally know it was Bernie Sanders who murdered Wellstone!

Democrat on Democrat crime is out of control!

[67 Rover]

83% of the 553 people that live in Sierra Blanca are white.

WTF are these people talking about "poor Hispanic community"? 

It's a freaking wide spot in the road on I-10

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White or White Hispanics? 

[Karin]

I was also struck by Frank's question.  Why the hell is a Vermont housewife running something in Texas?  And sucking a salary years after relevant involvement?