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Why is Broome County hiring a lobbyist at taxpayer expense, against the interests of most of its citizens, to lobby for a wealthy & powerful industry that wrote the book on lobbying? (and does very, very well all by itself)
An e-mail from one citizen & taxpayer to Barbara Fiala: I am writing in regard to Broome County’s decision to hire a lobbyistto urge Albany not to get “bogged down” in its environmental review ofdrilling in the Marcellus Shale. The shale gas drilling techniques that have come into use over thelast decade were developed in…