A lib lawmaker claims workers at natural gas drilling well sites are “spreading sexually transmitted disease amongst the womenfolk.”
Lib Dem idiot of the day Rep. Michael Sturla
A liberal democratic politician in Pennsylvania claimed in an email that fracking causes venereal disease in women.
Penn Live reported:
A state lawmaker is explaining his remark that suggests the impact of Pennsylvania’s booming natural gas industry includes the spread of sexually transmitted disease “amongst the womenfolk.”
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Democratic Rep. Michael Sturla of Lancaster County was expected to discuss the remark at a previously scheduled hearing Wednesday on gas drilling.
His remark was made in comments e-mailed to a reporter in which he accused a Corbett administration official of downplaying the seriousness of community impacts created by drilling.
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The state Republican Party on Tuesday evening called the remark offensive and incredibly stupid.
Sturla defended his comments today.
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