Yucca dump backer runs for Senate

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Former state senator Sue Lowden, who last year switched from being an opponent to a supporter of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump, last week announced she will run for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Democrat Harry Reid.

Lowden stepped down as chair of the Nevada Republican Party to make the race.

A former Las Vegas television anchorwoman, Lowden lost her seat in the Nevada Legislature after alienating the Culinary Union over issues at the casino she and her husband owned. The union threw its support behind Democrat Valerie Weiner, a former Reid aide, who won the race.

Lowden voted against the Yucca dump as a Clark County senator, but in December last year, she was part of a group of 60 Nevada Republicans who—led by nuclear industry lobbyist and former Nevada governor Robert List—traveled to Yucca Mountain for a tour and then called on the state to negotiate for benefits in exchange for accepting the dump.

http://www.newsreview.com/reno/content?oid=1295609

[Ken Burch]

1. So, what was her price for switching on Yucca?

n/t.