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mission, he said.
Where were you?
While the landfill opponents directed their attack at the Board of Supervisors, David Konick turned his on the crowd. “It all depends on whose ox is getting gored,” said Mr. Konick, who represented landowners adjacent to the existing private county landfill in their battle to prevent that site from being further expanded.
“This landfill business has been going on since 1977, at least,” he said, adding that most of the objections raised against the Lee’s farm as a landfill site applied as well to the dump now operating on the Clark property. “Where were you then?” he asked the audience. “Where was this mass of people? . . . You all know and have known when the extension (of one year) was granted for the WoodviUe landfill and we obtained assurances from the county that it would be moved from the Clark tract (by July 1, 1987). You knew the supervisors were actively undertaking a search for another spot. Why weren’t you here then, asking how it was going? I was, and I felt like the lone voice in the wilderness . . . The citizens sat back and watched because their ox wasn’t being gored ... If you think the decision making by this board is irresponsible, it’s nobody’s fault but yours because you didn’t stand up and say beans when somebody else was being taken to the cleaners,” Mr. Konick said. “As long as the landfill wasn’t in your backyard, it was fine ”
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