Western ElDorado county is serpentine country. There is a large population on which to do a study. Serpentine has been crushed and used as road and driveway gravel for years. Exposeure for humans has been for decades. This stuff is a non-issue and can be shown to be so. Do a study on real live subjects . . . bullshit!
They were trying to paint me as wanting to pave over the county, while screaming that all gravel roads with Serpentine must be paved over to "save the chillrun! This killed me in the west end of my district, down near El Dorado Hills and Cameron Park!
So my opinion of this author is prolly colored, but he talked to me for hours on the phone and then stuck it to me even though I was careful not to give him anything to go on. He needled, prodded, cajoled, ranted and raved trying to unnerve me, but it didn't work. That's probably what REALLY pist him off!!!
I also witnessed the fear in State EPA officials up close and personally at this freaked out writer of fiction! It was sickening and disgusting!!! And of course, it didn't help that another Board of Supervisors member that always voted against me and the other three was also in these meetings trying to fan the flames of panic and fear!!!
God bless then State Senator Tim Leslie who helped immensely, but to no avail. The smear was on and the fear ran deep. The ignorance runneth amok!!!