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Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco: “Moral authority always is the strongest weapon. People are not going to sit back and watch as planes go overhead and start dumping potentially toxic substances that could have long-term or immediate term health effects –it won’t happen, can’t happen.” CBS 5 (4/24/08)
Robert Lieber, Mayor of Albany, RN: "California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Secretary Kawamura’s recent emergency declaration enabling the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) aerial pesticide spraying of the Bay Area relies on blatant misrepresentations of the truth, fear-mongering and outright lies." California Progress Report (3/11/08)
Jeff Hafermann, Monterey City Councilmember: "The process used by CDFA in its LBAM experiment has turned the democratic process upside down." Press release (2/25/08)
Beverly Johnson, Mayor of Alameda: "I have two children. I don't want them being sprayed with this chemical." San Jose Mercury News (4/3/08)
Jared Blumenfeld, Director San Francisco Department of the Environment: "Nothing gets people more irate than a government institution spraying their kids from a plane. It's a bad movie. And nobody wants to be in that movie." San Francisco Chronicle (4/15/08)
Ross Mirkarimi, San Francisco Supervisor: "As it stands now, I am not convinced that there needs to be any spraying. I'm just against it." CBS 5 (4/7/08)
Dona Spring, Berkeley City Councilmember: There’s been “no demonstrated damage by the apple moth. This is the green age but they're still doing things in the old toxic way.” The Daily Californian (2/25/08)
Jane Brunner, Oakland City Councilmember: CDFA’s aerial program “doesn't smell right. If the problems are out there, why are they just spraying (the urban areas)?” Tri-Valley Herald (2/25/08)
Robert Lieber, Mayor of Albany, RN: "The real facts are simple… It’s all about money. Big money. Rather than admit that LBAM is not the threat that’s been claimed and request that LBAM’s USDA classification be revised based on up-to-date science, Secretary Kawamura is willing to poison us and our environment. And to spend $500,000 on a public relations firm to help 'sell' this charade to us." The Berkeley Daily Planet (3/7/08)
Traci Sheehan, Executive Director Planning and Conservation League: After the 2007 aerial sprayings in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, over “600 reports of health problems emerged.” California Progress Report (3/7/08)
Peggy Miars, Executive Director of California Certified Organic Farmers: "There's not enough solid data to discuss either the environmental impacts or health impacts to our satisfaction. And we're concerned about the spray's use in populated areas." Monterey Herald (3/20/08)
Steven Scholl-Buckwald, Pesticide Action Network: The CDFA is spraying for “political reasons” and “demonstrates a full out press to keep USDA from slapping a quarantine on [California].” ABC7News (2/13/08)
Helen Grieco, Executive Director CA NOW: "I'm absolutely convinced the chemical is toxic and dangerous. We're not convinced the moth is this big a threat." Press Democrat (5/8/08)
David Dilworth, Founder HOPE (Help Our Peninsula Environment): “When this started we knew it was morally wrong and legally wrong. The courts have just confirmed it is legally wrong.”
John Russo, Founder StopTheSpray.ORG: "Everyone acknowledges that this entire problem is not about a biological pest, but it’s about trade and trade policy. But you cannot rob Peter to pay Paul. You cannot trade people’s rights for corporate profits." Testimony CA Assembly Agriculture Committee (4/16/08)
Nan Wishner, Coordinator Stop The Spray East Bay : “It makes no sense that the State is spraying populated areas as a first resort, despite the availability of effective controls that are safe for human and environmental health.”
Paul Schramski, State Director Pesticide Watch: “Californians deserve to make informed decisions about pesticides being sprayed over their communities.”
Judi Shils, Founder Search for the Cause: “How does any human being have the right to determine that they can poison and harm an entire population. It is incumbant upon this generation to protect the next. We need to be a thoughtful, mindful and respectful species. We have lost our ability to forecare.”
Nina Gold, Play Not Spray: "Starting August 17, you'll be told at 8:00 p.m. stay inside with your doors and your windows locked. The airplanes will be flying at 100 feet crisscrossing about our beautiful cities, spraying an unknown toxin onto us. This will be our life, and then the next morning we'll be told to wash off they toys that our children play with, but we can't wash the dirt, the sand at the park. We can't wash everything that children will be touching," ABC7 News (4/28/08)
Honor Schauland, Organic Consumers Association: “OCA supports StopTheSpray.org in their efforts to keep California citizens from being exposed unknowingly and unwillingly to pesticides with unknown health and environmental effects.” (5/12/08)
Jessica Assaf, Teens for Safe Cosmetics: "We can't let this happen in Marin County, where 'organic' and 'health' are two of our most used words." Marin Independent Journal (5/10/08)
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