🚀 go-pugleaf

Lori Saldana wrote:

>And if I'm lying, as you suggest-- well, you'll notice the Congressman 
>doesn't directly dispute any of the points I make. He did vote for the 
>rescission bill which forbids any public appeals on logging in the 
>national forests. And he is in favor if exempting the Pt. Loma wastewater 
>treatment plant from any federal Clean Water regulations. I suppose 
>that's just his unorthodox approach to environmental protection.

More of your political deceits, Ms. Saldana.  Bilbray explicitly promises
(and he has backed his promises up with action) to support the Clean Water
Act standards.  If your claim that he wants to exempt Pt. Loma from "any
federal Clean Water regulations" isn't a lie, what is it?  What he quite
properly doesn't support is the EPA saying there is only one way (that
costs billions) to meet those standards.  Let me quote from Congressman
Bilbray's stated policy towards the Clean Water Act and San Diego's method
of meeting the standards set therein:

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*The EPA found in 1981 that "...proposed discharge will comply with the
California State water quality standards," and that the discharge "will not
adversely impact public water supplies or interfere with the protection and
propagation of a balanced indigenous population of marine life, will allow for
recreational activities."

* Federal District Court Judge Rudi Brewster stated in his findings in March
1994, that "the scientific evidence without dispute establishes that the marine
environment is not harmed by present sewage treatment, and in fact appears
to be
enhanced."

*The National Research Council committee on "Wastewater Management for Coastal
Urban Areas" stated in its April 1993 report that "chemically enhanced primary
treatment is an effective technology for removing suspended solids and
associated contaminants."

*Scientists from all over the country have testified in various forums,
including under oath in the federal district court in San Diego, that San
Diego's current level of treatment fully protects the offshore environment.

Bilbray's secondary sewage language explicitly states that advanced primary
treatment at  the Point Loma facility will continue only if the following
criteria is met:  

*Discharge "is in compliance with all local and State water quality standards
for the receiving waters."

*Discharge "will be subject to an ocean monitoring program acceptable to
relevant Federal and State regulatory agencies.
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>
>And as for the DNC or anyone else *paying* me to do this-- what an idea! 
>Why didn't I think of that before doing it for fun?

Ah, what was it Lenin said about 'useful idiots'...?  

>PS- I hope someone gives you a sense of humor as a holiday gift.
>

Got it some time ago, thank you.  My favorite Christmas present was a
jigsaw puzzle entitled "To Kill A Lawyer".  Great laugh.  But an even
better laugh was reading how Peter Navarro will change his registration
(and residence) to Democrat and run against Bilbray in the 49th district. 
Roar!  Who's going to challenge him in the Democrat primary?  Mike Aguirre?
 Harold Stassen, maybe?  Perhaps he can outpoll the dominatrix (sp?) who's
running on the Reform Party ticket...


Andrew Russell
arussell@bix.com

P.S. Here's hoping that your New Year's resolution is to develop a sense of
honesty, or to be at least ashamed of yourself when you lie.