Politifact: Sanders "Actively Ushered" Bill to Dump Nuclear Waste Near Poor West Texas Town

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117. And? They shouldn't have done that either--but two wrongs do not make a right.

And Clinton wasn't a NY resident during those years (she was living in Washington, DC, if you recall) until she ran for office after her husband left the WH. There was no nexus between NY's bad behavior and Clinton's representation of that state.

She never championed the practice or told those objecting to it to, in essence, shove it. The sludge farm closed the same year Clinton took office.

What's most troubling about this article isn't even Sanders' stance on the issue (though that is kind of troubling--very NIMBY for someone who is supposed to be a former peace-love-hippie type, in all the POSITIVE aspects of that characterization), it's the fact that he was just so mean, dismissive and uncaring of those with a valid and sincerely held beef about the matter. When VT activists are "disgusted" by his approach to the complainers from TX, there's a problem.

His "My way or the highway" attitude just sucks. It's revealing about his character, and not in a good way. Sometimes, it's a shitty thing to be so resolutely consistent--especially when you're dead wrong.

That "laser - driven focus" stuff is fine and dandy if one is a minor functionary, one of many. It's a shitty look for a leader, though. IMO, anyway.