GOP "1-2-3 STUPIDITY" ALERT - Christopher Christie
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Subject: GOP "1-2-3 STUPIDITY" ALERT - Christopher Christie
Date: Mar 15, 2010 2:55 PM
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Okay, allow me to dumb-down
the 1-2-3 GOP Formulary:
1) GOP sells out all our rights
and resources to the Corporations
(who are smarter than us'n
dummy-commoners).
2) This allows America to keep its
competitive edge (over Earth).
3) The *Stupid* Corporations stymie
research in America, allow opportunities
for Discovery and Innovation by *other*
nations, resulting in The Need to Better
Educate America's Children who are
behind in math and science and therefore
responsible for the Corporations'
crimes and mental incompetence.
KMDickson
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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/03/15-0
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 15, 2010
10:19 AM
CONTACT: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)
Bill Wolfe (609) 397-4861; Kirsten Stade (202) 265-7337
Christie Outlines Radical Eco-Rollback in New Jersey
Privatization Specialist Tapped to Head Department of Environmental
Protection
TRENTON, N.J. - March 15 - In his first weeks in office, New Jersey
Governor Chris Christie has laid the foundation for a dramatic
rollback of public health and hazardous chemical protections in one of
the nation's most polluted states, according to Public Employees for
Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Today the Legislature will
consider his nominee to run the Department of Environmental Protection
(DEP), a business consultant with no prior environmental experience
who specialized in privatizing public water systems.
"Governor Christie believes that environmental protections are
hindering our economic recovery, setting New Jersey on a race to the
bottom to reduce pollution controls to a minimum," stated New Jersey
PEER Director Bill Wolfe, a former DEP analyst. "Without offering a
shred of evidence that the current economic recession and fiscal
crisis are in any way related to environmental protection, Governor
Christie has nonetheless embarked on a radical environmental
retrenchment on a scale unprecedented in this state."
Through a series of executive orders and transition plans, the
Christie administration has created a "Regulatory Czar" in the Lt.
Governor's Office with veto power over regulations, established a
policy to scale back more stringent state rules to federal minimums,
announced plans to gut scores of DEP technical guidance documents and
issued an order to privatize as many functions as possible, including
compliance monitoring. For example, a long-awaited plan to cut sulfur
content in fuel oil, a move with large public health as well as air
quality benefits has been blocked after intense oil industry lobbying.
In addition -
* The state's highly-touted greenhouse gas reduction program has
put on hold, with funds dedicated to renewable energy diverted;
* Imposed a moratorium on 12 major pending regulations on topics
ranging from limits on perchlorate in drinking water to controls on
wetlands and coastal zone developments; and
* Existing regulations may be nullified following a cost-benefit
review overseen by the Lt. Gov.
Robert Martin, whom Gov. Christie nominated to serve as DEP
Commissioner, has a background in finance and worked at the business
planning firm Accenture where he specialized in work on privatization
and deregulation of water and energy public utility systems. Martin
has stated that he hopes that DEP will play a more active role in
promoting economic development, although DEP is a regulatory agency
that does not have economic development as part of its legislative
mission.
"Why is a man with zero environmental experience qualified to run a
complex $300 million regulatory agency with a staff of more than
3,000?" asked Wolfe. "Environmental protection should not be made into
another corporate spinoff."
One of two Republican governors elected in 2009, Christie may offer a
template of eco-dismantlement for other gubernatorial hopefuls seeking
to capitalize on anti-government sentiment. Since many of the DEP
programs operate under federal delegation with national minimum
standards, Christie's actions set him on a collision course with the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, headed by former DEP
Commissioner Lisa Jackson.
Read 10 Questions the Legislature should ask DEP nominee Robert Martin
View rollbacks honeycombed throughout the Christie DEP Transition
Plan
Look at the Christie moratorium on public health regulations
See how the moratorium effectively kills the perchlorate standard
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