To the Editor,
Is Senator Judy Seeberger nuts?
In last week’s Journal, she criticized Rep. Tom Dippel’s bill that would allow Hastings to take money from a $760 million 3M settlement fund, afraid that doing so will hurt the ability of other cities to access this money.
So Seeberger thinks it’s more important that Woodbury, with all of its million -dollar homes, endless corporations and businesses, and overwhelming tax base, has a greater need for 3M settlement funds than Hastings?
Seeberger doesn’t think Hastings is good enough to access this funding? The small town on the wrong side of the river in the wrong county should just sit back and shut up and let the older kids fight over the dessert?
With friends like that in the Senate, who needs enemies?
Dippel’s bill asks for a mere $45.7 million piece out of this $760 million pie. In Seeberger’s world, that is too much to ask for.
The 3M settlement fund exists for a reason: to help assist communities who were impacted by their pollution to pay for clean water solutions.
Unbelievably, Senator Seeberger has now stated her opposition to allowing Hastings to access available 3M settlement money that could provide us with clean water at no cost to local residents.
We deserve clean water just like anyone else. We deserve to access the 3M settlement fund so our water rates don’t skyrocket to pay for a problem we didn’t create.
We also deserve a state senator who fights for us rather than major Metro cities she doesn’t even represent.
Sincerely,
Edwin Dahl