WESTMINSTER — An open letter to state Rep. Patty O'Donnell [“Please stop helping us,” Viewpoint, The Commons, Oct. 20]:
I lived next door to a plumber for 30 years, but I certainly don't know plumbing “from the 'inside' and know it well.”
Russian planes used to fly over Sarah Palin's house, but she doesn't know foreign policy.
So I won't be asking you questions about nuclear safety, and I won't be asking the workers either. A bunch of those people lied to the state of Vermont last year. They lied to you. I seem to recall you were ticked off at the time, but I guess you're over that.
If you folks are as smart as you keep telling us, you put some of the Vermont Yankee tax money under the mattress. You've probably got a plan to reap the benefits of decommissioning, which will create another long period of economic activity. After that, I don't know; post-nuclear tourism? Or maybe you'll tax the spent fuel casks, just like the state.
It's time to calm down and face facts. This is still a democracy - imperfect as hell, but functioning. You got your nuke by a margin of one vote in the Vermont House, and the rest of us have had to live with it for 40 years. Vermont decided to close the plant on schedule by a bipartisan and resounding majority vote in the Senate. Without Peter Shumlin, that vote wouldn't have happened; you've got a right to blame him for that. But at 26-4, he didn't lead the Senate anywhere it didn't want to go.
By the way, did Entergy tell you about its latest steam leak before it hit the press? Just wondering.