Marc!
Our junior Sen. Barbara Boxer here in CA is so stupid, boring, and
unintelligible that other senators would vote against her on general
principles! Fortunately, she also has the worst attendance record of anybody
in Congress. The latter may be what is hurting cars in the placing of
general environmental laws.
Scott
>From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
>Reply-To: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
>To: Steve Laifman <Laifman@flash.net>, Mark Fridenstine
><laceyf@crosslink.net>
>CC: tigers@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Left Coast?
>Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 16:55:46 -0400
>
>At 07:56 AM 5/15/2000 -0700, Steve Laifman wrote:
> >I am as much dismayed as you are, but I do believe that the water and air
> >pollution regulations that so affected car painting costs,
>electro-plating,
> >automotive chemicals, AND engine block “boil-out” solutions are NOT
>unique
>to the
> >West Coast. I think they are based upon Federal water and air quality
>standards,
> >and health / safety issues and apply across the country.
> >
>
>Steve
>
>Your comments are not without merit, BUT almost all of these environmental
>laws have been passed with the perfervid support of the California
>delegation to the Congress, the largest delegation of our several states.
>Look to the voting records of your two Senators, for heaven's sakes! The
>last California Senator to have a comprehension of both states' rights and
>environmental realities was George Murphy, and that was back in the days
>when I lived out there, more than three decades back.
>
>In other words, if Californians would quit electing big-government nuts to
>the FEDERAL Congress, the rest of us would have an easier time at getting
>the system set up as it was meant to be, with each state handling its own
>environmental concerns.
>
>Marc
>
>msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315
>Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
>
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