New York's 22nd Congressional district has seen it's fair share of hard times this year. Lockheed Martin in Owego had it's Presidential Helicopter contract axed and nearly 1,000 workers laid off. BAE Systems located in Johnson City, NY and Endicott Interconnect located in Endicott, NY both had layoffs. Vail Ballou a publishing company in Kirkwood, NY will be closing in the coming few weeks putting 270 workers out of work. With all this turmoil going on in Congressman's Maurice Hinchey's district why is he the main sponsor of the Redrock Wilderness Act located in the state of Utah. I did some research and found out that Hinchey was good friends with former Utah Congressman Wayne Owens. Owens first introduced the Redrock bill in 1989. Owens left Congress in 1993 after loosing a Senate bid and asked his friend Maurice Hinchey of New York to keep reintroducing the bill. Don't they have reps located in Utah that can handle this? We need to put George Phillips in office. We need a rep that will be focused on our needs in the 22nd district, not a rep that's going to be introducing bills in other states because a friend asked him to.
http://www.abc4.com/content/news/top%20stories/story/Feds-say-Utah-wilderness-bill-needs-to-shrink/c45znJ_gJ0WBO7Zta-LRSg.cspx
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