Reynolds, Bird silent on Marengo cleanup

Where to put all that toxic, contaminated water and soil from the C6-Zero fire in Marengo? Let me make a suggestion: put half of it in the basement of the State Capitol building, and drop the rest on the Governor's Mansion at Terrace Hill. That would be a fitting reward for the solons in our legislature who have deregulated everything from the environment to our state's nursing homes, and for our governor, who has appointed a host of incompetents to positions of administrative power.

Please, carefully note that you haven't heard Kim Reynolds, or "her" Attorney General Brenna Bird decry the intervention of Biden's EPA into this "state matter." Nor, their refusal to accept the federal dollars needed for the cleanup. The stench of hypocrisy in this state is worse than the smell of all the hog manure.

Jim Walters

Iowa City