He's my "representative"(has been in office all my life) and I still hate this guy.
Locally he's spent most of my memorable lifetime fighting for an inflatable dam on the Susquehanna River. The river is badly polluted from years of illegal dumping into the mines and his plan, rather than to clean it up was to get that dam, make a lake and attract people to fish swim and be merry in our new cesspool.
http://blog.americanrivers.org/word...table-dam-on-susquehanna-still-a-live-threat/
“The inflatable dam is a fundamentally flawed idea, but it was born of a desire we share: to get people more involved with the river in their own backyards. But in a sad irony, sewage contamination from inadequate and aging pipes means that the river upstream of the proposed inflatable dam is often contaminated by dangerous pathogens, hardly the recreational playground of which the town dreams.”
They don't mention the unknown chemicals that have been pumped into the mines that leak into the Lackawanna River which empties into the Susquehanna about 10-15 miles upstream of said dam.
"The waters of the Lackawanna upstream are a crisp gray blue with froth and foam from the rapids as the River courses over the crest of the anticline. But, you will notice something else from the railing of the Union Street bridge. A concrete box culvert appears along the west bank. Just above the bridge abutment, the infamous Old Forge Bore Hole pours over one-hundred thirty million gallons of mine drainage a day into the Lackawanna."
http://www.lrca.org/pages/publications/riverguide/pages/Chapter III.htm
I could be wrong, but I think they mean one-hundred thirty million gallons year. The Old Forge bore hole is 1/4 mile upstream of my house which is 2 houses from the river.
Just a look into his mindset.
Ron
