Friday, August 10, 2007

How Should Minnesota Transportation Money Be Used?

It should be divided among our current infrastructure needs: roads, bridges, tunnels, etc.
How it is divided was seen to last session by the DFL (yes, the same DFL that is decrying Pawlenty's 2007 gas tax bill veto as the reason for the 35 bridge collapse!)
Last year, as you recall, the DFL pushed through a BOGUS amendment to the State Constitution in the now-infamous "Vote Yes" campaign.
In this campaign, voters were HOOD- WINKED into voting, by way of suspicious verbiage, for a split of transportation money where "at least" 60% of the infrastructure (hint, hint: roads and bridges...) money was to go to alternative transportation.

Yup. Light Rail. The Trains To No Where.

Now, those same Socialists-in- poor-disguises are calling for MORE taxes to go for "bridges," etc. all the while wringing their hands that we have "ignored" our roads and bridges.
What nerve! What gall! What a diabolical plan to derail the democracy in this State once and for all!
HOLD FAST, GOVERNOR PAWLENTY! DON'T GET HOOD-WINKED INTO A SPECIAL SESSION WITH AN EXPANDED AGENDA!
And for God's sake, Governor (and public at large), don't forget WHO orchestrated the financial division of transportation money last year!

There is far more at stake than mere money.