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Texas Attorney General heavily financed by nuclear waste company

For Sale: One Used Attorney General?, THE HUFFINGTON POST, Barbara Ann Radnofsky:  15 June 2010, As taxpayers we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests. What happens when the very companies that our elected officials should regulate enter the six- and seven-figure levels in their generous campaign contributions?

Why did a board member of Vahli, Inc (parent company of Waste Control Specialists, a nuclear waste disposal company proposing a new radioactive waste dump in West Texas) donate $395,000 in campaign contributions (as of December 2009 reports) to Attorney General Abbott? (as of December 2009 reports the Texas Attorney General has received a total of $405,000 from nuclear waste disposal interests)….

…On Saturday, June 12, The Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission held a public hearing regarding the plan to bury nuclear material from 36 other states in West Texas. Waste Control Specialists (parent company: Valhi, Inc) would run the site. Approval of its design and precise location is pending………..Is the Texas Attorney General being used by his campaign donors? Barbara Ann Radnofsky: For Sale: One Used Attorney General?

June 15, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes