2014 Tax Return : “Jane Sanders, Bernie Sanders’s wife, is also listed on his 2014 federal tax return. She made $4,900 for her role as “TLLRWD Commissioner.”
Tad Devine (lawyer by occupation) laughs in this interview (just like Senator Sanders in the CNN debate of 4–14–16, and the NRA) and blithely states “The only dump that’s going on here is an oppo dump, okay, right before a primary,” he said” -
http://bluenationreview.com/tad-devine-bernie-sierra-blanca/
I cannot imagine Tad Devine not considering the republicans would use this against Sanders to discredit his racial-environmental justice proclamations.
Fracking vs. Nuclear Waste…
https://www.youtube.com/embed/smRVBjXy4K0
Boring tax returns, yeah, sure -right, if you cannot read read English? “I don’t want to get anyone excited,” he said during the contest in Brooklyn, N.Y. “They’re very boring tax returns. No big money from speeches, no major investments. Unfortunately, I remain one of the poorer members of the United States Senate.”
Fact checking Bernie Sanders’ commitment to so-called minority communities and environmental racism & justice: Voted to dump Vermont’s nuclear waste in a majority Latino community in Sierra Blanca, Texas. Bernie has purity, no doubt, particularly when he has to choose between majority-white like Vermont and Maine and minority Latin/Hispanic populations like Sierra Blanca.
In 1998, the House of Representatives approved a compact struck between Texas, Vermont and Maine that would allow Vermont and Maine to dump low-level nuclear waste at a designated site in Sierra Blanca, Texas. Sanders, at the time representing Vermont in the House, cosponsored the bill and actively ushered it through Congress.
Located about 16 miles from the Mexican border, Sierra Blanca’s population is predominantly of Mexican ancestry. At the time, the community was about two-thirds Latino, and its residents had an average income of $8,000, according to the an article in the Bangor Daily News.
(I wonder what Pope Francis would think? How about the Catholic voters Senators’ is trying to wrap-up?)
The low-level nuclear waste would include “items such as scrap metal and worker’s gloves… as well as medical gloves used in radiation treatments at hospitals,” according to the Bangor Daily News. Clinton, then the First Lady, did not have a vote on the matter.
http://bluenationreview.com/tad-devine-bernie-sierra-blanca/
H.R.629 — Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Consent Act105th Congress (1997–1998)
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Federal Government
President: Bill Clinton (D-Arkansas) — 1993 to 2001
Vice President: Al Gore (D-Tennessee)
Chief Justice: William Rehnquist (originally from the U.S. state of Wisconsin) [1]
Speaker of the House of Representatives: Newt Gingrich (R-Georgia)
Senate Majority Leader: Trent Lott (R-Mississippi)
Congress: 104th (until January 3), 105th (starting January 3)
Governor of Texas (1997) George W. Bush
— -JANE “made-off” SANDERS : Vermont, Maine and Texas (1998[?]-2016)
“A factoid one should note here was that at this time, the governor for whom the TLLRWDA was working was none other than George W. Bush. Oh, and Jane Sanders, Bernie’s wife, sits on the Board of this wonderful Texas authority.”
And how did they come to a decision to pick that town? Fighting the passage of bill H.R. 629 in the senate, Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN) spoke on the matter in great length and detail. In short, it was a case of environmental injustice. Despite the findings of the consultants that Sierra Blanca was not a good site due to its “complex geology” and also a history of earthquakes in the past due to tectonic faults in El Paso and Hudspeth counties, the Waste Authority still went ahead and picked the site because the people living there would be least likely to resist or make a fuss about it, since the majority of the residents are Spanish-speaking and poor. They had tried to pick other locations for the site, but was met with either lawsuit or fierce opposition. So, finally, the Waste Authority just gave up and chose the path of least resistance, procedures and recommendations be damned.
Texas legislature also gave a helping hand by passing the Box Law and stripped the rights of the residents in Sierra Blanca from suing. The only recourse they could take was to obtain an injunction from the state Supreme Court, which means they would have to make the 500-mile trip to Austin just to be heard.
— Jane Sanders -.http://www.tllrwdcc.org/about-the-comission/ —
Governor of Minnesota Arne H. Carlson (I-Republican-MN) 1991–1999
Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN)
Gover of Maine Angus King (I-Me) 1995–2003
Governor of Vermont — Howard Dean (D-V) 1991–2003
Governor of Texas — George W. Bush 1995–2000
The Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission, Alternate Commissioner Jane O’Meara Sanders, Ph.D., VT
— -https://www.congress.gov/105/plaws/publ236/PLAW-105publ236.pdf
PL 105–236 The U.S. Congress ratified a Compact between Texas, Maine and Vermont for disposal of low-level radioactive waste with the passage of the Compact Consent Act, PL 105–236 in 1998.
“Sierra Blanca is a small town in Hudspeth County about 90 miles southeast of El Paso, TX and only 16 miles north of the Mexico border. There are about 900 residents, 60% of whom are mostly Hispanic. 30% of the roughly 430 housing units are vacant. Sierra Blanca is an extremely poor town where almost a third of the households live below the poverty level of $15,000. The town’s per capita income is about $10,500 but the entire county’s is only $8,000.”
For weeks, they spoke in front of committees, with Vermont residents unaware of what was going on, and gained compassion and even apologies from them. Finally, they met with Bernie Sanders on the issue. What was his response? Drop dead:
“Before the rally Sanders invited the three West Texans to meet with him privately, and the Texans eagerly agreed. The meeting was no longer than Sanders’ attention span — when it comes to Sierra Blanca. “He didn’t listen,” Curry said. “He had his mind made up.” Afterward, Bernie was giving his pro forma campaign speech, never mentioning nuclear power or nuclear waste. Sierra Blanca activist Bill Addington, who’d arrived just that morning to join the march, along with his neighbor María Méndez, had had enough, and he yelled from the crowd, “What about my home, Bernie? What about Sierra Blanca?”
Several others joined in. “What about Sierra Blanca, Bernie?”
Sanders left the stage, which surprised no one in the small Texas delegation. Earlier, he had told them,
“My position is unchanged, and you’re not gonna like it.”
When they asked if he would visit the site in Sierra Blanca, he said,
“Absolutely not. I’m gonna be running for re-election in the state of Vermont.””
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Yeah, the hero. Where was his fight for racial injustice? On the side of Caucasian Vermonters. Where was his fight for environmental justice? Read the previous answer.
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“He could also have supported the proposed amendments to the bill by Senator Wellstone to give rights to sue back to the residents of Sierra Blanca. But seeing as to how those amendments might jeopardize the tri-state Compact, he vehemently opposed it. In the end, all he cared about was to find the easiest way to rid Vermont of its nuclear toxic waste, instead of choosing to stand up for what is right and just.”
Two sides to every result:
(1) “It reflects very poorly on him,” said longtime environmental justice activist Dr. Robert Bullard, dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University and the author of Dumping in Dixie. “Shoving this down people’s throats is not progressive politics. It was business as usual. It’s a classic case of rich people from a white state shifting something they don’t want to a poor minority community somewhere else.”
(2) “Bernie made a big mistake, but this country has a lot bigger problems than what happened 20 years ago,” Addington said. “Not that that gives him a free pass, not that it makes him right, but we’ve moved on.”
Bill Addington: “In 1992, local Bill Addington responded by forming the foundation “Save Sierra Blanca,” which opposed the establishment of the disposal site and rallied support among the primarily Spanish speaking population, who did not have access to information about disposal. In 1992, Texas agreed to dispose of nuclear waste from Maine and Vermont in exchange for $55 million, which caused outrage in the local group. The group then allied with the Nuclear Responsibility Network to form the Sierra Blanca Legal Defense Fund (SBLDF).”
https://nvdatabase.swarthmore....
2016 Texas Democratic Primary -
Clinton 65.2%, Sanders 33.2%
Mrs. Clinton won Texas even though her husband, Bill Clinton was the president who signed HR 629. It seems the people forgave THEM but not Bernie. California is next.
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FYI — Approximate travel time from Santee, California to Sierra Blanca, Texas is: 1 hrs, 37 mins (675 miles)
Santee, California
Total Population: 53,413
Male Population: 25,823
Female Population: 27,590
2008 California Primary
Clinton 51.5%, Obama 43.2%
2016 April Poll: The nonpartisan poll of likely voters in California’s June 7 primary showed Clinton leading Sanders 47 percent to 41 percent.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/clinton-711451-sanders-percent.html
Here is where #IAmWithHer SuperPAC comes into play. If Mrs. Clinton is not progressive enough for Bernie Sanders, don’t we have to question what his definition is of progressivism, given his voting record?
Where did Senator Sanders’ Medicare-for-all plan originate? Watch Bernie Sanders explain in this 2006 Senate Debate — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGK7N7S_40M
Feel free to share this research to get the truth out about Bernie Sanders ability to talk out of both sides of his mouth.
Now, I can breathe. What about you Democratic Party members of California, does it matter?
#anarchy2016