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
>
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> *From:* Iowa Discussion, Alerts and Announcements 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] *On Behalf Of *Phyllis Mains
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 18, 2008 6:16 AM
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> *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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