MOFFETT VOTE RESULTS

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@igc.org>]

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@igc.org>

MOFFETT VOTE RESULTS
A couple of month ago I recounted the local effort to block commercial 
air cargo operations at Moffett Federal Airfield, a NASA facility 
located on the site of the former Moffett Naval Air Station, here in 
Mountain View and Sunnyvale, California.
On November 5, Mountain View voters voted 67.5% against commercial or 
other civilian operations at Moffett Field. The vote is not binding, 
but we believe that it will make it politically impossible for NASA to 
resurrect the air cargo proposal.
In the course of the campaign, nearly all of the Mountain View City 
Council candidates - four of the seven seats were on the ballot - at 
least gave lip service to the campaign against air cargo. The Alliance 
for a New Moffett Field listed 6 candidates who not only opposed air 
cargo, but shared the organization's commitment to a wide-ranging 
exploration of potential future uses at Moffett. Three of those 
candidates won.
Lenny Siegel