Money and Politics: Gov. Craig (R-Idaho) Loves $$$, Kills Messenger

Power corrupts. Sometimes it leads to scandal but more often it is done within the legal framework of the system. This time a senator's need for election funding has driven him to destroy a scientific agency because he doesn't like science if its against his biggest donors! And then he made himself a scientist and claimed: "False science leads people to false choices." What a shame!

The Washington Post writes:

(T)he mathematics of protecting salmon swimming in the nation's largest hydroelectric system can hurt your pocketbook -- particularly in the Northwest, where dams supply power to four out of five homes, more than anywhere in the country.