You said it! Also in the Phoenix:
Ted Kennedy
The grand Pooh-Bah of Cape Wind opponents; the wind farm would be located roughly eight miles from his familys Hyannisport compound. Consulted with archconservative Republican senator Ted Stevens of Alaska before Stevens proposed a legislative provision that would have allowed Massachusetts to scuttle the Cape Wind project, which would be constructed in federal waters. (The provision failed.) Kennedys explanation for his opposition, according to an exchange quoted in Cape Wind: Thats where I sail.
David McCullough
Cape Wind begins with the Marthas Vineyard resident prolific historian (Truman, John Adams, Brave Companions, etc.), and host of PBSs American Experience (a WGBH production!) voicing his opposition to the Nantucket Sound wind farm. Its outrageous! says McCullough. This is a preservation issue. Its not an environmental issue.
Rachel Bunny Mellon
Resident of Oyster Harbors, a gated community on Nantucket Sound; granddaughter of the inventor of Listerine; widow of the astoundingly rich Paul Mellon; confidante of Jackie Kennedy; former mother-in-law of Senator John Warner (R-Virginia). In Cape Wind, she accuses a wind-farm supporter of being a traitor to [his] class.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Other environmentalists have urged him to drop his opposition to Cape Wind, but Teds nephew who cites commercial, environmental, and aesthetic concerns isnt budging. Hundreds of flashing lights to warn airplanes away from the turbines will steal the stars and nighttime views, Kennedy wrote in a 2005 New York Times op-ed. The noise of the turbines will be audible onshore ... the project will damage the views from 16 historic sites and lighthouses on the Cape and nearby islands.
Senator John Warner
Former son-in-law to Bunny Mellon and ex-husband of Elizabeth Taylor; attached an amendment to a 2004 defense-appropriations bill that would have stripped the US Army Corps of Engineers of its oversight authority on the project. The amendment didnt make the cut.
Mitt Romney (Yes. Mitt Romney.)
If the former Massachusetts governor becomes president in 08, dont be surprised if he throws new obstacles in Cape Winds path. Ive seen wind farms, Romney said during a 2006 Army Corps of Engineers hearing on the project. Theyre not pretty. As an alternative location, Romney suggested Boston Harbor.
Christy Mihos
The Big Dig whistleblower and failed independent gubernatorial candidate is also a leader of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound. His swanky West Yarmouth home faces the Kennedy compound.
Walter Cronkite
Formerly featured in anti-wind-farm Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound TV ads, Cronkite who owns a home on Marthas Vineyard eventually had second thoughts. I will confess . . . that I did not do my own homework as I should have before making the statements, Cronkite explained. I did not and I can only regret that now.
pinging the Howie Carr Show list (Brooks was a guest on
Howie’s show the other day)