This is a piece I just wrote for Vermont's Green Mountain Daily. The back story here is that David O'Brien, an official in our Republican administration, has decided to actually get into an argument with us on our blog.
He's been acting in a fairly partisan fashion: when concerns were raised about the safety of Vermont's aging and leaking nuclear power plant, he blithely claimed it must be close to an election, so you get that he's coming from a place of honest and thoughtful insight.
I'm not writing this to argue about nuclear power. I'm writing this to talk about mendacity, disregard for public safety and incompetence.
Original piece after the jump