Community | May 10, 2011 | 41 comments

WISCONSIN: Assembly passes bill ending requirement to disinfect municipal water

source: http://quorumcall.wispolitics.com/2011/05/assembly-passes-bill-ending-requirement.html?utm_s...

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Now, Sick Sub-Humans that are called Republicans are legalizing making you sick:



The Assembly has passed AB 23, which would, unless mandated by federal law, end a DNR requirement that municipal water systems be continuously disinfected.

The bill passed 58-35. Lawmakers backed an amendment by bill author Eric Severson, R-Star Prairie, before turning away 21 Dem amendments.

Dems charged that the law meant the state was walking away from its commitment to provide clean drinking water to the public, listing a wide range of potential water-borne illnesses they said could result from reducing water standards.

"We put this new standard in place to protect Wisconsin citizens," said Rep. Cory Mason, D-Racine. "We're now rolling back those standards to go down to the lowest common denominator."

Republicans countered that the DNR requirements are an unnecessary burden on communities with already strong water standards.

"Why don't you want these communities to make their own choice on this?" asked Severson.


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41 comments // WISCONSIN: Assembly passes bill ending requirement to disinfect municipal water

  • Dusty_King
    • +2
      Dusty_King  

    • How can they pass this "law", have stand up constitutionally since it puts the state population in direct danger. How can the DOJ not step in and put a stop to this? So when the elderly start getting sick and dying there will be no law suits directed at the Sick Bastard Gov. and State Gov't. Not good, not good at all.

    • 1 year ago
  • Milieu
    • 0
      Milieu  
    • Dusty_King:

      1) States Rights
      2) the elected officials are generally absolved from lawsuits while in office
      3) the whole point is to take all government services away from the government and give them to a "For Profit" corporation which will do a much worse job

      that is what the organization ALEC is all about.

      Which is why GOP must be neutered----permanently.

    • 1 year ago
  • Warren_Merrill
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      Warren_Merrill  

    • It's what happens to the water from the time it leaves the reservoir through the time it hits your glass that matters. How many people drink unfiltered water straight from the tap anyway? They either have water delivered or have a filtering system in their house.

    • 1 year ago
  • Milieu
  • Saladin
    • +3
      Saladin  
    • Warren_Merrill:

      This is always the kind of argument that fucking bugs me.

      When something is broken, YOU FIX IT.

      You don't break it more and not give a shit.

      I, for one, drink from the tap. Mainly because it's clean, but also because I'm not going to spend 10,000 times more money doing something stupid like drinking bottled water.

    • 1 year ago
  • Milieu
  • Dusty_King
  • Warren_Merrill
    • 0
      Warren_Merrill  
    • Milieu:

      It doesn't matter how pure the water is in the reservoir. I proved this point to my mother. She was bragging how the water in her area was among the cleanest in the country. We poured some from the tap and had it analyzed. She was shocked. It could be the quality of your own pipes affecting water quality among many other aspects of the journey from the reservoir. You can buy a water pitcher or storage bin for the fridge that filters water very inexpensively. Regardless of how pure you believe the water to be you should still filter it.

    • 1 year ago
  • Milieu
    • 0
      Milieu  
    • Warren_Merrill:

      I will try this again, Mr. _Merrill, that kind of expense is just not in the budget of many millions of Americans. There are too many who are just trying to pay bills and (to quote your Illiterate Mad King George III) "trying to put food on their families."

      I know it would be painful to commingle with the Masses, but try going to a food market where Not Rich people shop and watch them have to figure out where every penny is going this week. And listen to them discuss what has to be put off until next week.

      And as for medical expenses, forget it. I know people who get busted and go to jail just to get decent medical coverage.

      Those are the types of conditions that exist in long time REEEEEEED states. "Right to Work" states where there are NO protections for workers.

      Water purifiers? Damn man they cost $20 -$30, where the hell is that supposed to come from?

    • 1 year ago
  • Warren_Merrill
  • Milieu
    • 0
      Milieu  
    • Warren_Merrill:

      "$30 for a filtered pitcher? Someone would have to be dirt poor to not afford it. If you can afford to be online you can afford a $30 pitcher."

      Actually, the filters are more expensive than the original outlay. Several hundred a year. Especially in the areas in RED states where water quality is not the concern of Government.

      Many areas have Free internet for those who are disabled, can't work, are raising children and trying to get educated.

      BUT, yes, there are VERY many people who are dirt poor. You Republic Syndicate members can't seem to get that through your heads. Many millions of people are doing without basics.

    • 1 year ago
  • twinite
    • +4
      twinite  

    • Wow.....even Gaddafi made sure his people got fresh water by creating the Great Man-made River Project......

      When fresh water is of no concern to "them" it's time to act !!

    • 1 year ago
  • Milieu
  • mspray11
  • Milieu
  • gypsysailor
    • +4
      gypsysailor  

    • Bottle up your tap water and send it to the GOP. Send it to their families. Send it to their friends. Send it to their backers. The GOP is trying to turn Wisconsin into a 3rd world state.

    • 1 year ago
  • Milieu
  • lazloman
    • +4
      lazloman  

    • This goes back to what I've been saying for some time now:
      The public reasoning the rethuglicans give for their moves are irrelevant. What the rethuglicans want to do is gut the the government. Sell off everything you can and gut everything else. They want to make government irrelevant. This has nothing to do with localities having their own standards, because if those standards were any good, this law wouldn't be there to begin with.

      Before Chicago started cleaning up its water, it wasn't uncommon for a small fish to come out of the tap. Of course, this was back in the early part of the last century, but returning to the turn of the last century seems to be Walker's goal.

    • 1 year ago
  • Milieu
  • Dusty_King
    • +1
      Dusty_King  
    • lazloman:

      The return to 1911 instead of staying in 2011 is the prime directive of rethuglicans. Bringing back the Robber Barons of Pre-Drepression 1929 is their idea of a good time, as long as we're serfs.

    • 1 year ago
  • bike10
  • Milieu
    • 0
      Milieu  
    • bike10:

      If you check the legislative plans from American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) this is taking place all over the country, not just Wisconsin.

      You might want to check and see what state legislative members in your state are trying to pass "under the radar."

    • 1 year ago
  • bluestranger
  • Milieu
  • Leen61
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      Leen61  

    • This is horrilbe news given that WI had a cryptosporidium outbreak back in the early 1990's! I had the stuff....lucky I got over it. But many people got sick and died when the outbreak happened here in Milwaukee. There were several lawsuits as well. My state is just asking for trouble by passing this bill. This is what a state looks like that has been taken over by Republicans. Saving money is more important than saving lives.

    • 1 year ago
  • Milieu
    • +2
      Milieu  
    • Leen61:

      Yep, that's why I put the link below to the story about the outbreak to show how stupid and forgetful the Republic Syndicate's Masters are.

      Or maybe The Masters truly don't care about the people.

    • 1 year ago
  • Leen61
  • Milieu
  • Leen61
  • Omle_Du_Fromage
  • Milieu
  • JanforGore
  • Milieu
  • good_stuff
  • August_K
    • +4
      August_K  

    • "Republicans countered that the DNR requirements are an unnecessary burden on communities with already strong water standards.

      "Why don't you want these communities to make their own choice on this?" asked Severson."

      LOL, if those poor communites have an money left to do water testing.....after Walker and Gov's like Snyder cut money going to those communities.

      I swear some of these Governors are heartless sick SOB's.
      I hope they are the FIRST to get some water borne intestinal bug and that they spend a month developing a very close relationship with their toilet bowls.

    • 1 year ago
  • Milieu
  • Dusty_King
  • Milieu
  • Persecuted
    • +4
      Persecuted  

    • this is really scary for wisconsin. when i lived in milwaukee, we had crypto in the municiple water supply.... the whole south side of milwaukee had the shits and pukes for days... it was terrible

    • 1 year ago
  • August_K
  • Leen61
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