See article below. On January 28, 2005, I first saw Ken Bryan speak about the asphalt plant before County Commission. He wsa right then and he is right now.
Now is the time for County Commissioners to join Commissioner Bryan in protecting the public from a public nuisance. Commissioners need to vote to bring a public nuisance action against APAC, directing that the County Attorney prepare a public nuisance lawsuit and a memo for their review.
On January 28, 2005, a hack Assistant County Attorney told me that her job was to represent Commissioners, not residents. Likes were told to Commissioners by the Assistant County Attorney and by some lugubrious goober from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP or "Don't Expect Protection" as my friend David Thundershield Queen calls it) -- they claimed the problem was with "old people," and "the weather."
Florida public nuisance law must be used to protect the public -- just as it is elsewhere. We've had enough of all-Republican Commissioners being lemminglike and deferential to unscholarly, callous legal advice" from the likes of County Attorney DAN BOSANKO, GEOFFREY DOBSON and the others whose only legal function is to count to three and tell Boards what they think they want to hear, whether spending millions of dollars without competitive bidding (the mosquito control helicopter we all helped kill) or destroying our environment.
Continuing pollution from APAC is a public nuisance. The plant can easily be moved.
Inasmuch as ASHLAND sold the plant to an Irish multinational corporation, our words now may be heard through the IRISH EMBASSY and State Department.
Let the legal institutions of this county be used at last to protect the people.
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