EDITOR: The citizens of Morgan Hill will have an opportunity to
express their feelings on a number of local and statewide issues on
March 2.
EDITOR:
The citizens of Morgan Hill will have an opportunity to express their feelings on a number of local and statewide issues on March 2.
Measures B, authorizing a parcel tax to continue the current level of library service, and Measure C, extending and improving the existing residential growth control regulations, deserve to be supported by all. I can find no good reason to vote “no” on either.
However, there is one primary race on which we will not have any opportunity to voice an opinion. No candidate of any party has filed papers to run against Richard Pombo, our current congressman. In the weirdly gerrymandered Congressional District 11, Republican Pombo is viewed as invincible and not worth other political parties spending the money to oppose him.
This is regrettable, as Pombo is one of the leaders of an anti-environmental, pro-development at any cost movement in Congress. With the power of being the Chairman of the House Committee on Resources, Pombo has that committee sending out press release after press release that frequently place the words “radical” or “asinine” in front of the word environment. He is spending our tax payers money to circulate his one sided view of the world, ridiculing environmental actions and classifying as radical almost anyone who would speak up to save the environment. He uses the term “sound science” almost as a mantra in an effort to force those who would argue against his view to prove a negative. In this, his rhetoric reminds me of a tobacco company lawyer claiming that there were no studies showing smoking to be bad for you.
I find Pombo’s actions to be so questionable that I have set up a Pombo Watch site on the Internet. Readers may view this at http://www.refpub.com/PomboWatch/ Hopefully, I will be able to find the sound science to illustrate where Pombo is right and where he is radically wrong.
Wesley C. Rolley, Morgan Hill
