Cantwell staff receives scores of suggestions

PORT ANGELES – What’s a U.S. senator to do?

About 20 Clallam County citizens and elected officials had a long list of tasks for Maria Cantwell, D-Mountlake Terrace, to tackle when they met three members of her staff Thursday.

Among their requests:

  • Name Port Angeles’ federal building for Richard B. Anderson.

    The Marine from Clallam County died after he threw himself onto a live grenade in 1944 and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.

  • Protect the Elwha River from operations of a rock quarry that has a permit to operate from the state Department of Natural Resources.

  • Reinstate the draft to make the Iraq war so unpopular that the United States must end it.

    Some of the requests were nuts-and-bolts issues Cantwell’s staff deals with daily, like increasing federal funds to fight pollution and protect clean water, sought by county Environmental Health Director Andy Brastad.

    Others were more politically philosophical.

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