re: Just another reason why we should leave those trashy rigs standing.

Here's a pdf of the letter Rep's Bonner-Mobile and Representative Palazzo wrote to Salazar, the Sec of the Interior:

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U.S. Reps. Jo Bonner, R-Mobile, and Steven Palazzo, R-Biloxi, referenced the vote in a letter sent Friday to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar in which they demanded the government immediately stop its oil rig removal policy.

“At the same time one federal agency is restricting fishing for the preeminent target fish species in the Gulf, another – yours – is literally killing thousands of pounds of fish and destroying the habitat on which they rely,” wrote Bonner and Palazzo. “Certainly, Mr. Secretary, you see the hypocrisy here. These fish are the economic life-blood for thousands of our constituents along the Gulf of Mexico, and this insanity must stop – immediately.”

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