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2016 Postmortem

Bluenorthwest

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11. What is pitiful is that they do not seem to know the real environmental injustice that happened

Reply to Betty Karlson (Reply #4)

Tue Nov 3, 2015, 08:56 AM

Nov 2015

in Sierra Blanca, which is constantly reconsidered to this day. The town was NYC's sludge pit from 1992-2001 when the company doing the dumping went bankrupt. Tons of sewage, by train, spread 'like peanut butter' over the acreage.
http://clui.org/ludb/site/sierra-blanca-sludge-ranch.

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The Texas-Vermont-Maine Nuclear Dump: Bringing Environmental Racism Home [View all] RandySF Nov 2015 OP

that is the problem with nuclear power - there are no good options - just less horrible ones virtualobserver Nov 2015 #1

So Bernie voted to dump Vermont's nuclear waste in a majority Latino community in Texas Cali_Democrat Nov 2015 #2

I believe Sanders wife... NCTraveler Nov 2015 #8

He had to dump the waste down where all those brown people live. mwrguy Nov 2015 #3

Problem with this line of attack is that no nuclear waste was ever sent there but NYC did send Bluenorthwest Nov 2015 #10

Reheated smear. This one was first tried in August, remember? Betty Karlson Nov 2015 #4

Give them a break, they don't have much else to work with jfern Nov 2015 #5

Desperate measures, that used to be called. n/t Betty Karlson Nov 2015 #6

What is pitiful is that they do not seem to know the real environmental injustice that happened Bluenorthwest Nov 2015 #11

Old smear, does not excuse Hillary's zest for war, fracking, the TPP, increased H-1B visas, cluster djean111 Nov 2015 #7

So what's Bernie's excuse? JaneyVee Nov 2015 #9

Without even digging into that - I do not like Hillary's stances on things like this, and I do not djean111 Nov 2015 #12

The vote was there, the lobbying was there, the intent was there, the choices were publically made Sheepshank Nov 2015 #13