Perry sought to sideline nuclear waste site critic

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

EXCLUSIVE - Perry sought to sideline nuclear waste site critic
Story Dated: Friday, September 2, 2011 1:30 hrs IST

By Chris Baltimore, Peter Henderson and Karen Brooks

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas governor and top Republican U.S. presidential candidate Rick Perry tried to sideline a state commissioner who opposed expanding the scope of a nuclear-waste landfill owned by one of the governor's biggest political donors, Reuters has learned.

Bobby Gregory, owner of a wildlife ranch and landfill company south of Austin, had opposed a plan to let 36 states send nuclear waste to a 1,338-acre site in Andrews County.

On the other side of the issue was billionaire Harold Simmons and his company Waste Control Specialists LLC, which stood to gain millions of dollars from accepting out-of-state shipments. Simmons had donated over $1 million to Perry's gubernatorial campaigns.

A report in the Los Angeles Times in August examined the case of the Texas waste site and Perry's ties to Simmons, a conservative who funded the Swift Boat campaign that helped torpedo John Kerry's presidential bid. (http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/16/nation/la-na-0816-perry-donors-20110816)



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[Kingofalldems]

1. Typical GOP

K and R

[Vincardog]

2. Campaign add "Elect Perry and turn the whole USA into a toxic waste dump"

[No Elephants]

3. Bought and paid for politicians: Not just for Texas anymore.