Ethics

Move Over, Warren Chisum

By Ed Brayton

We have a new entry in my ongoing competition for the title of the country's looniest state legislator, Arizona State Sen. Sylvia Allen. Sen. Allen, during a hearing over mining uranium in the state, scored special debating points against those evil environmentalists by informing them that the earth has been here for a whole 6000 years:

"The Earth has been here 6,000 years, long before anybody had environmental laws, and somehow it hasn't been done away with. We need to get the uranium here in Arizona, so this state can get the money from it."

Here's video of it:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on July 09, 2009 (boomark / email).