Mark Small

Disbanding the structure in the Federal government meant to address pandemics was the same as getting rid of the fire department in a town, except the former has (so far) resulted in the need deaths of tens of thousands. 1/15

Here are things that have to be done by the next U.S. Rep for INCD5: reverse the damage done. When an agency is headed by a person who long has advocated for its elimination, the results cannot be good. 2/15

My opponents Abernathy, Bales, Beckwith, Brizzi, Dietzen, Henderson, Hullinger, Mitchell, Niederberger, and Spartz say, in one way or another, they are against regulations and Federal actions that “over reach.” 3/15

One frequent target of “very fine people,” (Google “trump” & “Charlottesville”) like these of my opponents, is the EPA, headed by Andrew Wheeler, formerly of the coal industry. One of the achievements of the Nixon administration was creation of the EPA. 4/15

A clean environment is good. The photos, at the start of California’s stay at home order, of a smogless sky over Los Angeles, give an indication of the effects of even a short respite from air pollution. 5/15

A clean environment also is smart - as in $AVE$ MONEY. Oil and coal are finite resources. Only so many dinosaurs died and decayed over millions of (not 6,000) years. Windmills don’t cause cancer and solar energy works - even at night. 6/15

But wait! There’s more! More people can be employed in clean and renewable energy industries than in the dying industries tied to fossil fuels. At the end of 2016, approximately 50,000, coal miners worked in the USA. (Fed Reserve Report, 4/21/17.) 7/15

We should fund training people still employed in coal to work in clean energy industries. There would be long-term savings in several forms. Fewer people would die from black lung disease, to name just one, if you value $ over lives. 8/15