Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) has launched a new campaign called "Victims of Government" that details how onerous government has destroyed people's lives. To launch the effort Senator Johnson posted a video yesterday in which he describes the plight of Stephen Lathrop from Granite City, Illinois. According to a letter from Senator Johnson
and Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) to the Army Corps of Engineers,
Mr. Lathrop's town has a severe flooding problem that the Army Corps of
Engineers was ordered to fix in 1965 but never did. In light of this,
Mr. Lathrop decided to buy a local dump, invest $100,000 of his own
money, and build a lake to alleviate the flooding in his neighborhood. That's when the trouble started. Shortly after Mr. Lathrop built his
lake, the Army Corps of Engineers determined that the dump he had put
the lake on was a "wetland" according to the Clean Water Act and he
would have to drain the lake. When Mr. Lathrop couldn't afford to do
that the Corp referred him to the EPA for prosecution. While this was going on another incident of sever flooding occurred
in the area. Granite City and its outlying areas were flooded and
declared a disaster area by the federal government. However, Mr.
Lathrop's lake prevented the same thing from happening to his
neighborhood...more
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Friday, March 29, 2013
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