Legal Ghost Corporations dropping the full weight of their connected private and government operations onto the pastoral soils of rural America 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 special interest in destroying our 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.

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.