Good for Begich, it was a stupid attempt at one of their zombie lies that needs to be called out every single time.
Alaska Sen. Mark Begich has a message for Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal: Don’t make fun of our volcano money.
In his rebuttal to President Barack Obama’s address on Tuesday night, Jindal made a joke about a $140 million line item for volcano monitoring, saying: “Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, D.C.”
Begich, a Democrat, fired off a harsh letter to Republican Jindal on Wednesday evening, saying that volcano monitoring “is a matter of life and death in Alaska,” which has several active volcanoes. Indeed, one such volcano erupted in 1989, nearly causing a jumbo jet to crash, Begich said in his letter.
The federally funded Alaska Volcano Observatory, with offices in Fairbanks and Anchorage, monitors 31 active volcanoes.
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