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Show Truth shown by votes Dear Editor: John Keahey's examination of Utah's First Congressional District candidates environmental postures (Salt Lake Tribune, Monday, Aug. 13, 1990, p Bl) was interesting. Jim Hansen is quoted as saying "...I'm a true environmentalist and Wayne and Kenley are drugstore environmentalists,..." envir-onmentalists,..." If readers and First District constituents con-stituents would look back at Jim Hansen's voting record, they would realize Jim Hansen is misrepresenting misrepresen-ting himself to the press and the public. Jim Hansen voted against the President and the rest of his colleagues col-leagues in the House to elevate the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to a cabinet level agency. Jim Hansen voted against the Safe Drinking Water Act. Jim Hansen voted to allow in-discriminant in-discriminant dumping of plastics and plastic wastes in the oceans. Jim Hansen voted to extend the policy which would allow the sale of 88,000 plus acres of BLM public lands in Utah at the fire sale price of $2.50 per acre. Jim Hansen voted to give the oil companies and oil spillers a break in not one, but two separate amendments. Jim Hansen has one of the worst environmental voting records in the House of Representatives, which has advanced him to the ranks of the Dirty Dozen. These twelve are the most environmentally hazardous hazard-ous public officials in Washington, as well as to our air, water, lands, wildlife and natural resources. To learn that my Representative has passed himself off as an "...environmentalist..." is laughable, "...environmentalist..." and Jim Hansen are contradictions in terms and reality. Jim Hansen is to environmentalists what Darth Vader is to the Jedi knights. Dave Brown Bountiful |