Lifton Tea Is A Bitter Brew

New York State Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton (125th Legislative District – Ithaca) recently distributed a letter to all her fellow State Senate and General Assembly members urging them to speak to Governor Andrew Cuomo against natural gas development in the state. She makes six principal assertions, all of which may be fairly described as wild exaggerations, if not outright falsehoods.

We have taken a close look and are left wondering where Lifton got her information. Her statement is, at best, a shallow exercise in demagoguery – unworthy of a state legislator. She gets nearly everything wrong and demonstrates an alarming lack of knowledge regarding an industry that is already positively affecting her district.

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Permalink Reply by David Perotto on June 1, 2012 at 12:07pm
Barbara Lifton brings my blood to a boil. Herself and several other NYS legislators held a fracing panel/ witch hunt last year. They brought DEC commish Martens and other DEC scientists before this panel. They castigated Martens saying they were doing an inadequate job. Who is she to say so? Her interaction with him could be described, at best, as disrespectful towards a department head. As this was last year, she kept referring to Dimock PA as evidence of what can go wrong. She was wrong then and is wrong now. But in Ithaca NY, any liberal can get elected, even if they have no common sense.
Dave
Permalink Reply by Moe on June 1, 2012 at 12:44pm

Liberal with common sense? Now that's an oxymoron!

Permalink Reply by David Perotto on June 1, 2012 at 5:03pm

To follow up on my claims.

The hearing was:

PUBLIC HEARING REVISED DRAFT SUPPLEMENTAL GENERIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT GOVERNING NATURAL GAS DRILLING

Date: October 6, 2011

Barbara Lifton interrupted DEC officials seven times.

Directly copied quotes by Barbara Lifton:

"Where is the information on crime, which I'm hearing a lot about from the people in Pennsylvania, the number of rapes?  Unidentified assailant rapes in both counties have gone up dramatically according to people I spoke to"

"There's talk down there about babies being born
with holes in their heart, things like that all"

"In Pennsylvania, these folks went to doctors with their hair falling out, with shakes and the doctors put them on anti-anxiety drugs until they figured out at some point that, and these people were still drinking the water that was causing the barium poisoning as the doctors didn't even know how to diagnose what was wrong." 

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