Harry Reid’s Lame “Petition”
Most of the Nevada media and most of Nevada’s elected officials keep telling us that Nevadans are absolutely, positively incensed at the notion of building the nation’s nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain.
Most of the Nevada media and most of Nevada’s elected officials keep telling us that Nevadans are absolutely, positively incensed at the notion of building the nation’s nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain.
The following letter-to-the-editor by Bobby Craig of Reno, Nevada was published this morning in the Reno Gazette-Journal:
Aug. 26, 2008
Poll says Yucca not key to voters
23 percent say dump a major influence
By KEITH ROGERS
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
More Nevadans said a presidential candidate’s stance on disposing of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain would have no impact on their vote than said that it would have a major influence.
In a poll of 400 likely Nevada voters Aug. 13-15, 38 percent indicated that the Yucca Mountain issue would not sway their vote for president, while 23 percent said it would. Another 37 percent said it would have some influence.
Back on July, 15, 2008, Nevada Sen. Harry Reid had this to say about building the nation’s nuclear waste repository here in Nevada: