Archive: Opinions

Once again the Lansing Star has provided Tom Reed with a platform from which to misrepresent his actions in Congress without analysis or public debate.

In today's (15 May) Star, Reed boasts of his support for what he and other anti-government reactionaries in the House of Representatives call the Government Integrity Protection Act, which he touts as property owner protection.

In fact, this act is designed to counteract recent rule-making by the EPA, the Army Corps of Engineers and other federal agencies charged with enforcing the Clean Water Act.  The rule-making clarifies the definition of waterways, including wetlands to help protect them from pollution and mismanagement.

What Reed and his cronies really want to protect is the imagined right of his friends in industry and industrial agriculture to pollute and to destroy.

In all honesty, Reed should refer to this bill as the "Polluter Protection Act".

Tom Vawter
Town of Lansing

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