State Senator Jay Taylor said the quiet part out loud, the part where Morrisey's eyes dance around when asked directly about tax revenue allocation to communities. When the treble in his voice rises when he exclaims, 'There will be literally billions to go around for everyone! More money that what the community will know what to do with!'

Jay Taylor said the quiet part out loud at the Grant County Chamber event for federal, state, and local candidates. 'The state is taking 70 percent to eliminate the state income tax!' Boom!

30 percent will not compensate for the misery our communities will endure to repair and replace the crumbled roads and broken water systems, nor will it put food on the table when water and electric rates double and triple. Nor will it pay for the health bills as a result of the rise in asthma and cancers. The only winners here are the wealthy. I don't know about you but I wonder, when does a billionaire tire of buying corporate jets and yachts?

Legal Ghost Corporations dropping the full weight of their connected private and government operations onto the pastoral soils of rural America to force the construction of private power plants and data centers will become the modern day version of the Battle of Blair Mountain if the peoples houses in state Capitals do not put the brakes on. Currently the GOP in Charleston has given a green light to total destruction of our headwaters and arable land in return for a handful of minimum wage jobs at these facilities.

The Speaker of the House is taking a special interest in destroying the HD 85 environment by taking on Fundamental Data as a client in his day job at Bowles Rice. In my years of advocacy for social services both locally and at the state level, I never knew of legislation created without public comment, shoved through session at the 11th hour, and adversarial to the communities affected, to be good for the people that live there. This is what 'illiberal' governments do world-wide: consolidate power under the Chief Executive.

My first bill will be to restore public comment and end the use of NDAs for both public and private lands where regulated industries are planned. In addition, I will co-sponsor legislation aimed at restoring taxing authority to our local communities who know best how the data center or any industrial development tax revenue can benefit them. Finally, any new industry that is harmonized to preserve our environment must also provide training and hiring for a set percentage of the construction jobs created.

I will continue to oppose all power plant and data center development that will destroy our fragile environments. The Ridgeline power plant and Tucker County Data Center, as currently proposed (larger the the largest data center in the US (NSA Utah)), will devastate our communities for decades and we do not have decades to recover from the climate change and environmental degradation it will generate.