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Showing Original Post only (View all)Why did Bernie cosponsor a bill and vote to dump Vermont’s nuclear waste in a poor Latino community? [View all]
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 Blancas 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.
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Why did Bernie cosponsor a bill and vote to dump Vermont’s nuclear waste in a poor Latino community? [View all]
wyldwolf
Sep 2015
OP
And Uruguayans too. He hates the everliving shit out of them. No one knows why.
DisgustipatedinCA
Sep 2015
#34
Where does his hatred of Latinos and poor rank with his hatred of blacks and gays?
LondonReign2
Sep 2015
#69
He voted for a compact. It was never built there. But later on New York sent its toxic sludge
Skwmom
Sep 2015
#11
He's done nothing in Congress except single-handedly forced through every bit of legislation....
villager
Sep 2015
#27
They think each issue drop exists in a vacuum. It's hilarious watching the Hillionaires flail.
Ed Suspicious
Sep 2015
#102
why did hillary vote for a destructive, costly, and divisive war of choice?
restorefreedom
Sep 2015
#8
A war that slaughtered the fuck out of hundreds of thousands of souls.
DisgustipatedinCA
Sep 2015
#36
In the bill I read there was no site designated and it NEVER built at that site.
Skwmom
Sep 2015
#13
I'm going to guess its because they don't have proper facilities in Vermont.
NCTraveler
Sep 2015
#10
Her husband , the president, signed the bill on september 28.1998 according to the first link.
m-lekktor
Sep 2015
#17
Perhaps they will inform us that it was Bernie, and ONLY Bernie, that forced Clinton
NorthCarolina
Sep 2015
#81
That's what I remember too but the Clinton machine has been busy smearing the record.
beam me up scottie
Sep 2015
#32
S a matter of geology. We need to stop building nuclear pWhere the waste goes iower plants, but
JDPriestly
Sep 2015
#44
Why did Hillary vote for a war that killed half a million people and created millions of refugees?
Cheese Sandwich
Sep 2015
#39
If we are digging up 17 year old records, can we have a word about Mrs. Clinton's vile remarks
Betty Karlson
Sep 2015
#50
If this has been Hillary, we would never hear the end of how she is in the pocket of nuclear dumpers
leftofcool
Sep 2015
#73
It's going to come as a shock to some of the people I see every day over in Vermont
Vinca
Sep 2015
#93