I would like to point out, Mr. Chairman, my experience with Mr. Filner was as the director of the public health department for San Diego, and as he knows, this is not something I am not involved with. I happened to be personally involved with the water quality there. I surf, my 9- and 8-year-old children surf. We have water contact; we care about the environment.
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I think that we can gain a lot of credibility by being as tough on our fellow government agencies as we are on the private sector.
The Agency has a responsibility that you do not have the mentality of crucifying people that may not be too guilty, but you've got to make your point.
Mr. Bunker, I think you and everybody else that's required to enforce either a law or regulation understands that when the Legislature passes a law, there's always the assumption of discretionary enforcement.
I think it is time that we put the pressure on our mayors and our county supervisors, and our State officials, just like we put on our automobile manufacturers.
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