Response to Larsen’s column | Letter

Published 9:00 am Thursday, April 24, 2014

It is certainly appreciated that any representative of a body politic visit and write about a community, as in the April 9 Sounder.

The environmental efforts that are made by our elected officials are surely welcomed by the San Juan Island community.

However, should that same area be cloaked with coal ash, airborne nitrous oxide, sulfuric acid clouds and CO2 what matter its monument status if that same representative is pushing for that to happen.  Unlike the monument legislation that he has chosen to visit our archipelago, few  if any lobbying dollars were necessary for that effort.  However, his stand on coal exportation is littered with industry and union contributions to expound and support such environmentally damaging acts.

Money, and I might say a certain corruptness of moral fortitude, is unfortunately the name of the representation and reelection game being played by many elected officials.

I hope you choose your candidate not on what they say but what they do. Does Rick Larsen oppose or support the environmental damage that the exportation annually of 51 million tons of coal from Cherry Point will do to our community and the entire West Coast of America?

Walter Corbin

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