But we can't let our guard down either.  Those same folks that were 
pressuring their polluting ways onto the Bush administration will continue their 
efforts under the Obama administration.  We will need to lend support to the Obama 
team to their efforts to do the right thing and offer comments to them when 
they are headed the wrong direction.
 
pam
 
In a message dated 12/18/2008 1:12:39 PM Central Standard Time, 
[log in to unmask] writes:

Donna,
I think Vilsack has raised the ire of the organic people and other 
lefties the way the Clintons pissed off the religious right. I don't 
believe in letting moderates get under my skin. There are so many many 
very bad things that do happen; I don't get upset about something like 
this. You are right and it still continues that with a Democrat making 
appointments we are much, much better off. What Bush has done in the 
last month may never be undone.

Donna Buell wrote:
>
> A behind-the-scenes political friend once told me, */“Iowans eat their 
> young when it comes to politics.”/*
>
> */ /*
>
> Vilsack didn’t get as far as we’d like in his environmental efforts, 
> but he worked with a Republican legislature his entire tenure. Our 
> former Governor, for example, vetoed legislation enacted by the 
> statehouse that would have disbanded the EPC after the fishable / 
> swimmable regulations. He appointed EPC commissioners who were 
> decidedly in favor of more water quality regulation. He hired Jeff 
> Vonk and gave him leeway to seek enforcement measures against CAFOs. 
> OK, the Power Fund was nothing but corporate welfare, and biotech is 
> absolutely a double-edged sword, but that was what all the states were 
> doing at the time.
>
> Has anybody paid attention to the job performance of our present 
> Governor? Could anybody seriously question that Culver is absolutely 
> in bed with the Farm Bureau? Vilsack never embarrassed himself the way 
> the Big Lug doesn’t even understand it’s wrong to hold government 
> meetings at Farm Bureau headquarters.
>
> Why don’t we start congratulating our former Governor instead of 
> criticizing him? Vilsack will be making appointments of assistant 
> secretaries, on down. We are wasting an incredible chance for access 
> and influence if Iowa Sierrans continue to eat their young.
>
> Donna Buell
>
> Vilsack appointee to the Environmental Protection Commission 2003-2007
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From:* Iowa Discussion, Alerts and Announcements 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] *On Behalf Of *Phyllis Mains
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 18, 2008 6:16 AM
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* Re: Fwd: Sierra Club Praises Nominations for Interior, 
> Agriculture
>
> So much for the official Sierra Club Response to Obama's environmental 
> choices. For me personally I feel **Hope goes up in Smoke!** Phyllis
>
>
>


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