Super Tuesday State Legislators Challenge Candidates to Restore Great Lakes, Outlaw Water Diversions
LANSING, MICH. (January 31) – Republican and Democratic state legislators from states representing more than a quarter of the delegates at stake on Super Tuesday today called on presidential candidates to commit to funding the restoration of the Great Lakes and to outlawing water diversions.
The Great Lakes states of New York, Illinois and Minnesota represent 457 of the 1,688 delegates up for grabs on Super Tuesday.
State legislators from these states—Rep. Karen May (D-Ill.), Sen.George Maziarz (R-N.Y.), and Sen. Ann Rest (D-Minn.), together with Sen. Patty Birkholz (R-Mich.), chair of the Great Lakes Legislative Caucus, today sent a letter to the leading presidential candidates urging them to support the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact and to implement the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Strategy.
“For state legislators who are on the front lines in the battle to restore and protect the lakes, we have one question for each presidential candidate: ‘Will you use your leadership as President to pass Great Lakes restoration legislation and to outlaw water diversions?’” said Sen. Birkholz of Michigan, which held its primary on January 15th. “We’re looking for
presidential candidates who will not turn their backs on the lakes, because every day we wait, the problems get worse and the solutions get more costly.”
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