NEVADA sues Bush: "What are they trying to hide?"

[Bluebear]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The state of Nevada on Wednesday sued the Bush administration to compel it to publicize key documents on its plan to build a long-delayed nuclear waste dump in the Nevada desert.

Nevada Attorney General George Chanos sued U.S. Energy Secretary Sam Bodman and the Energy Department to require them to publicly release a draft application to build an underground waste dump in the Nevada desert about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

The Energy Department had originally intended to file that application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2004 but the project has been plagued by scientific foul-ups and political stonewalling.

"Defendants have no legal basis for their actions in withholding the right of access to such documents," Chanos wrote in the complaint, filed in a Nevada federal court. "What are they trying to hide?" Chanos said in a statement. "If the repository is safe, you'd think they'd be anxious to prove it."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060322/sc_nm/energy_nuclear_yucca_dc

[SeattleGirl]

1. "What are they trying to hide?" My question would be,

"What AREN'T they trying to hide?" Given that this is THE most secretive administration in the history of the country, the fact that they are hiding information on this issue comes as absolutely no surprise.

[northofdenali]

2. Good question, Nevada.

"What are they trying to hide?"

(from a state whose main-money town's motto is "What happens in Las Vegas, stays in Las Vegas".)

Maybe the state should look at one of it's casinos?

:sarcasm:

Reminds me of the signs up here that say "Caution: Rough Road". It'd be cheaper if the state printed a few dozen that said "Good Road Next XX Miles".

I hope Nevada kicks ass with WHATEVER resources it has to use.

[wakeme2008]

3. Fuck NV they voted for that site TWICE and now they want to

cry about it.

[Bluebear]

4. To begin with, Las Vegas and Clark country are blue.

This site is closest to them, not the republicans from the northern areas. When did Vegas vote for this? Fuck NV indeed, plenty of us live there. Clinton vetoed this, incidentally.

[wakeme2008]

8. While that may be true the big money Casino owners

could have pushed more voters to Gore/Kerry had they pushed the dump site issue to their workers as bad for business. Just IMHO....

[Bluebear]

10. Look, Clark county was the only county that went for Kerry.

By your rationale the world should abandon us and say "Fuck the USA, they voted for him" and leave it at that.

[wakeme2008]

12. Over all it was more important to NV that gays did not marry than the dump

so to me and maybe me alone, they got what they voted for..

[Bluebear]

13. You're right. Nevada should not sue Bush & we should abandon them

Their '06 and '08 votes aren't crucial. Whatever, as they say.

[wakeme2008]

14. .

:hug:

As a Dem I feel sorry for all the Dems in the state. But the majority of the people in 2000 and 2004 voted for the ass in the WH and nobody really made a big deal about the dump then......

PS: IMHO Gore really blew NV by not pushing this issue more in 2000.

[Bluebear]

15. .

:hug:

Agree with your PS.

And my basic point is, they should move the thing up north where Bushistas voted for him like 70-30. :)

[wakeme2008]

16. And like WV had Gore won NV

Florida would not have been an issue. :cry:

[pnwmom]

19. Had Gore/Kerry won any number of swing states Bush would not be in

office. So what?

[pnwmom]

18. We don't really know what they voted for, do we? With all the

election fraud that was going on.

[pnwmom]

5. Did they have a referendum I'm not aware of?

[wakeme2008]

6. 2000 and 2004 election they love Bush... nt

[Bluebear]

7. 2004 results:

George W. Bush * (R) 414,939 50%
John F. Kerry (D) 393,372 48%

Harry Reid * (D) 490,232 61%
Richard Ziser (R) 282,255 35%

President: Clark County County (NV)
Updated 11/3/04 4:58 AM ET
99% Precincts Reporting Incumbent* declared winner
Candidates Votes %
John F. Kerry (D) 254,918 52%
George W. Bush * (R) 227,603 46%
Ralph Nader (I) 2,756 1%
None of These Candidates (Una.) 1,860 0%
Michael Badnarik (Lib.) 1,786 0%
Michael A. Peroutka (CST) 537 0%
David Cobb (Green) 473 0%

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/elections/2004/nv/prescounties/

[wakeme2008]

9. See my post #8 :) nt

[Bluebear]

11. And see my #10.

[pnwmom]

17. Nevada was a swing state, not a red state. And having followed the 2004

election there, I think it is probably another one of those states that ACTUALLY preferred Kerry. (There was a company here in Washington that was also working in Nevada, registering Democrats to vote and then tossing their registrations.)

[Jim Lane]

20. The trashing of Dem voter registration forms

When that came to light, I thought there was an announcement of a criminal investigation. Did anything further develop? Was anyone ever indicted for this, let alone tried and convicted?

[pnwmom]

21. Great question. I don't know. n/t