I’ll tell you exactly how she got the Senate. She was a Marin County Supe when I lived there, and the spectacular Hamilton Air Force Base was available for $1 from the GSA, provide it continued to be operated as an aviation facility. Gnoss Field, the official Marin County Airport, is an awful facility, tailwinds at both ends of the runways from its proximity to a nearby mountain. Further, it’s built on swamp land, the runway is simply not flat and tends to launch airplanes before they’re ready to fly. Many flying clubs actually prohibit renters from going there. Don’t forget the 500+ foot radio towers that are actually IN the traffic pattern.
Anyway, 70% of Marin voters favored making Hamilton the new Marin County Airport, with its long, wide, flat runway and an overwater approach. This didn’t set well with Babs, who had (along with her developer buds) other ideas about this prime hunk of Marin real estate.
She managed to get 3 different aviation propositions on the ballot, effectively splitting the pro-airport vote three ways. The one remaining option, that narrowly passed, was the creation of a “solar village”, kind of what Epcot would’ve been if designed by hippies after pulling at the bong for way too long.
Then they found out all the toxicity everywhere after 60+ years of operating as a military base, and decided the clean up would be too costly. Of course, the first thing they did was destroy the runway and make sure it could never be used as an airport again. Like Meigs Field, this was an irreplaceable facilty.
The Marin Libs LOVED her protecting them from those nasty airplanes, and elected her to the Senate. And she’s been there ever since...
*Thank you for posting that...
And here’s something from the other thread that’s right along the same lines:
www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2274390/posts?page=119#119
I can’t find the words to describe my contempt for her. Well, there are, but I’d get banned.
Thanks for the background on that, I never knew the whole story. Now we just need to get her out of office.