Pattern or Coincidence?

Recent newspaper reports have revealed that Gordon Smith is not just protecting polluters, he is one.

But, is there really a connection between the repeated environmental violations at Gordon Smith’s plant, and his repeated legislative attacks on the environment?

According to The Oregonian, for the third time since the 1990s, his Pendleton-area processing plant has been fined for polluting nearby Pine Creek.

So, over the course of about a decade, Smith hasn’t instituted tight environmental controls on his plant.

During roughly that same time period, he has voted to support Big Oil over alternative energy, voted to drill in ANWR, chosen political science over real science, and amassed an environmental voting record that has earned him a lifetime score of just 26 percent from the League of Conservation Voters.

If he cared more about the environment as a senator, would he care more as a businessman?

Would he have taken a closer look at what was going on at his plant?

Or are his environmental violations and his legislative assaults on the environment just a coincidence? An unfortunate coincidence for Oregon’s environment.

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