SocraticGadfly: GOP pork threatens Galveston and could be nonfunctional

October 30, 2008

GOP pork threatens Galveston and could be nonfunctional

But, nonetheless, Bush, Tom DeLay and Kay Bailey Cheerleader all favored building a hazardous biomaterials lab — a major one, with majorly hazardous critters like Ebola — on Galveston Island.

Hurricane Ike has already shown just how stupid that decision was:
“It’s crazy, in my mind,” said Jim Blackburn, an environmental lawyer in Houston. “I just find an amazing willingness among the people on the Texas coast to accept risks that a lot of people in the country would not accept.”

Now, among the safety features, they include shutting down all experiments 24 hours before a hurricane landfall.

But, if it were built somewhere else…

You wouldn’ have to do that!

The claim that politics had nothing to do with the location is laughable.

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