Senator Wants Emails

Senate Republican leader Ted Ferrioli wants those emails that the DOJ says are off limits regarding their former environmental lawyer Brent Foster.

Foster quit his position when he lied about a field trip he took with his old buddies from Columbia Riverkeeper to Hood River. Riverkeeper is trying to shut down yet another Oregon business. This one makes fruit juice. Riverkeeper activists went to take some discharge samples and Foster went along then, by his own admission, misrepresented to his boss the reason he was there.

The emails in question have a Bradwood Landing connection and Ferrioli wants to know if the state DOJ had an active hand in killing a project that broke no laws. That's basically what it breaks down to.

The Senator may be on to something since State AG Kroger is anti-LNG and he hired former Columbia Riverkeeper head Brent Foster to prosecute environmental crimes.

Ferrioli says at the end of the day there may be nothing to it but we won't know until all the information is in the public spotlight.