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This week, the New York State Assembly passed legislation to keep New York's parks open and establish an electronic waste recycling program to be paid for with higher fees for those who generate hazardous waste. A win-win solution for New York's residents and our natural environment, right? Not in the eyes of phony conservationist Assemblyman Greg Ball!
Assemblyman Ball thundered against the rescue plan for New York's parks in a recent press release, apparently written by someone with Histrionic Personality Disorder, titled "Ball Stands Against Another Albany Tax & Fee Increase Ball: Albany Insiders Hold Hostage Our Parks and Historic Sites." While Assemblyman Greg Ball's press release is long on faux outrage, it is short on specifics. Noticeably, Ball does not mention that it would be hazardous waste producers who would be paying these fees or that this legislation would establish a long overdue e-waste recycling program, following the lead of more than a dozen other states and New York City. Perhaps this is because Ball doesn't want to publicize the fact that he is siding with polluters over the public and our parks.
To paraphrase Greg Ball, only in Albany, the land that commonsense forgot, could a two-term incumbent state legislator portray himself as a maverick while voting with his party's leadership to protect the interests of hazardous waste producers and keep state parks closed.
Cross-posted at The Ball Monitor. |
