Will Huntington Beach Mayor and Democrat Congressional Candidate Debbie Cook stand up for recycling in Huntington Beach?  Mayor Cook, who holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Earth Science from Cal State Long Beach, surely knows that recycling is critical to "sustainable development".

Yet, the Register reports that Huntington Beach resists setting up recycling centers. The city Zoning Commissioner denied the plan of a Ralph's grocery store for a recycling center at a store at Brookhurst and Adams because police Chief Ken Small was concerned that the center would attract transients.

Doesn't the small-minded Chief understand that Earth is hanging in the balance?  Doesn't he understand the critical role played by transients in the recycling Circle of Life?  What is more important, saving our planet or a few homeless loitering outside of Ralphs?  And where is the compassion for these poor people who have lost life's lottery, and have been reduced to saving the planet for spare change?


The issue may yet reach the City Council.  Will Mayor Cook should stand up for the disadvantaged and Mother Earth?!