Leffingwell and Oppel Go Nuclear
We often wonder if Austin American-Statesman editor Rich Oppel ever really acclimated to the Lone Star State. Oppel, who was born in Florida and moved here from North Carolina, argued this weekend on his editorial page that one way to accomplish his goals might be to consider investing in a $6 billion expansion of the South Texas Nuclear Project. He named city council member Lee Leffingwell, who hopes to be our next mayor, as his brother-in-nuclear-arms.
Austin already owns 16 percent of the two nuclear reactors at the Bay City plant project, better known to Austin taxpayers of a certain age as the STNP. Oppel and Leffingwell, of course, are of that certain age. We don’t expect any better from Oppel. But maybe the (former) high flying Captain Lee, an Austin native, was gone too often during his three decades as an airline pilot to have seen the news — radioactive waste is as fatal to political careers as it your health.
Check out Oppel’s editorial and the enertaining comments it drew here.
Posted on September 30, 2007 – 6:46 pm by APR