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Here's where it got complicated. The day after Glass accepted, he received an offer of promotion at Florida and decided to stay with the Gators. Bradley, in his first day on the job, was called in by Harvard SID Ed Markey and told the news...
Clearly, the action by the Governors marked a stand against nuclear energy. They knew that by refusing to offer the evacuation plans they were playing trump cards which would prevent the NRC from licensing the plants. Markey, as a strenuous opponent of nuclear energy, sponsored the amendment because he saw the potential in the Dukakis and Cuomo actions to prevent unclear plants from being licensed forever...
...rather than arguing the merits of nuclear energy, Markey sought to make the amendment a referendum on states rights. He spoke passionately on the House floor, telling his colleagues that the right of the two states to determine their own safety was at stake...
...that issue, whether nuclear energy is so potentially dangerous as to be immoral, which must be debated precisely because of its emotional force, that Markey and his supporters such as Democratic presidential contender Richard Gephardt, sought to avoid...
...hear Markey, all that was at stake was the right of states to decide things for themselves. That is an empty proposition, one which knows no ideology and does more to obscure than illuminate. For if Markey were to have won, what would have been signified? Very little. Questions of local autonomy are irrelevant in issues which are essentially national in import. Decisions about zoning are one thing. Those about racism or nuclear energy are of a different order. The states rights defense cheapens public debate by reducing issues of the utmost conscience to arguments of jurisdiction and power which...