Wash. state builders association publishes newsletter comparing environmentalists to Nazis

Source: The Olympian

A prominent Jewish group has called on the state's politically powerful builders association to apologize for a newsletter column in March that drew links connecting the environmental movement, state ecology regulators and Adolf Hitler's Nazi philosophy.

Ellen Bovarnick, Northwest regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, issued a public statement this week, saying the opinion column by a Building Industry Association of Washington staff member "showed a deplorable lack of judgment." She asked BIAW, which is known for its political hardball, to repudiate the piece.

... BIAW spokeswoman Erin Shannon defended the piece as free speech and said it was only the musings of a staff member, Mark Musser, who saw a connection between environmentalism's philosophical roots and Nazi philosophy.

... Musser added that what environmentalists today offer is "an amalgam of Nazism and communism - an international environmental socialism with a centralized planning scheme. But this amalgam is increasingly at odds with itself, causing a rift within the environmental lobby, with builders caught in the middle."

... The ADL sent its letter to the BIAW after receiving a complaint a week ago, Bovarnick said. The complaint comes at a time when the BIAW, which supports Republican Dino Rossi for governor, has been denouncing Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire's record on crime and foster care through hard-hitting radio ads that Gregoire's campaign says are off-base and inaccurate.

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little to no issues with environmental regulations.

Actually the builders's association hack should read Mein Kampf and see how Hitler relegated women to the single importance of producing men. Buillders similarly relegate the Earth as a womb for producing ill-conceived unsustainable creature comforts for the short term.