Letter: The ‘right party’ has work to do in Yucca fight

Friday, Jan. 25, 2002 | 4:08 a.m.

Dick Armey was in Summerlin back-slapping with Republicans and told the media that it's the political party that will make the final decision on Yucca Mountain, it's all about being with the right party. Armey made it perfectly clear the Democratic opposition will fall on deaf ears.

An editorial in the Review-Journal blames Sen. Harry Reid for not pushing the governor and attorney general to file a 10th Amendment suit to stop Yucca Mountain. Is Reid the only one who can or didn't? Why didn't the R-J point out Ensign's or Gibbons' heroic efforts? The R-J should call on Ensign and Gibbons to push the issue since they belong to the "right party."

Gov. Guinn campaigned for Bush and was honored to hand over Nevada's electoral votes to Bush, so he and his party need to face the music. Did anyone fall for that phoney-baloney letter Guinn was waving around before the election, where Dubya gave his word that he wouldn't screw Nevada? Ha, what a load of nuclear waste that was. The government can, will and has always manipulated "scientific evidence-science" to produce the results it wants.

Those who voted the GOP into office; you asked for it, you got it. Unfortunately, the rest of us did, too. Members of the "right party" need to stop feigning surprise and disgust and get off their rich behinds and start fighting.

NANCY RIVERA

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