He wants to stop me from telling people what he's doing. I'm just trying to do business without having a stink and a dump that shouldn't be next to me in the first place. I didn't do anything wrong. Joan Seeman, who heads the local chapter of the Sierra Club's hazardous-waste committee, agrees that Fox was simply trying to get county and state officials to do their jobs. And we still don't have a clear understanding of what's going on.
Citizens have every right to ask questions.
Which is exactly what he did. But industry just wants to close its doors and not allow public participation. Basically, this seems to be a debate between county and state agencies as to what should and should not be done with that property. It looks like Paul Fox got caught in the middle. Although Spano is out of town, his attorney, James Peters, flatly disputes that characterization.