PELOSI/REID MUST GO. STOP THE HUDSON RIVER PCB DREDGING!

 

SULLIVAN * DEMOCRAT * CONGRESS  21st DISTRICT, NY

 

3 AUG 08

Contact: JPS 438 5230

 

 

                  SULLIVAN SAYS: PELOSI AND REID MUST GO.

               STOP THE HUDSON RIVER PCB DREDGING PLAN

 

Joseph P Sullivan, of Albany, Democratic candidate for the 21st Congressional District seat of retiring Representative, Mike McNulty,  made a cameo appearance

 today, on Classy Rich Vassi's, Sunday morning WROW radio talk show (9-11 am).

 

Sullivan called in responding to Vassi's comment that 21st District voters should not elect a Democrat to Congress because it would ensure re-election of Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House. Pelosi has opposed off shore oil drilling.

 

Vassi welcomed Sullivan's call, and declared that all 21st and 20th Congressional District candidates would be given equal time. Vassi made a giant step forward in

campaign reform.

 

Sullivan declared the following:

 

      1. He would not vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House.

 

          Both Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, must go.

          They are major reasons for the dyfunctional, ineffective performance

           of Congress, which has a 9 percent public approval rating.

 

      2. Offshore oil drilling and renewed of our nation's vast coal reserves

          must  begin  now, without further delay.

 

      3. There should be an immediate stop order on plans to dredge Hudson

           River PCB's.

 

          Let sleeping dogs lie. Disturbing the sediment capped pcb's will

          only create more pollution, in the Hudson River, and on land and in the

          air of the Capital District.

 

          "Cleaning" up the Hudson River PCB's is akin to trying to clean up

           the Yucca Flats, Nevada spent nuclear waste site. Neither can be

           effectively and safely "cleaned".

 

      4. Sullivan said: divert the billions of dollars to be spent on the pcb dredging

           project to rebuilding the aging water/sewer infrastructures of Albany,

           Troy, Schenectady and other Capital District communities.

 

 The Democratic Primary will be held Noon - 9 pm, Tuesday, September 9, 2008.

 

August 15 is the deadline for new voters to register and enroll as Democrats, so that they might participate in the September 9 primary.

 

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