Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Will the Alaskan Bridges to Nowhere get Scrapped?

I bet the pork is gonna fly in AK over this: SierraClub: The Senate Appropriations Comm removed earmarks for 2 controversial "bridges to nowhere" in AK: the Gravina bridge, which would connect Ketchikan to an island of 50 people, and the Knik Arm bridge, which would link Anchorage to a sparsely populated area. Sen Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) has served as a strong advocate for the Gravina bridge despite the fact that her family owns 33acres of undeveloped land 3/4 of a mile from the pt where the bridge would touch down. Since the State will now decide how the money would be spent, her dad, Gov Frank Murkowski, will now face the same ethical scrutiny. The Exec Dir of the Sierra Club: ""Most Americans are risking their lives driving on crumbling roads and bridges that don't get fixed because there simply isn't enough money. That explains why there was such a visceral public reaction to the idea of wasting national tax dollars on 2 bridges to nowhere in AK. Removing the budget earmarks for these projects is absolutely the right thing to do, but it doesn't actually mean the money will go where it is needed most, namely to fixing our nation's existing roads and bridges." Hmm... I wonder what Sen Ted Stevens (R-AK) will do since he said this in his crybaby tirade last month: "Stevens threatened to quit, to become a "wounded bull on the floor of this Senate," and he vowed that if his colleagues passed the bill, "I will be taken out of here on a stretcher." I'm hoping someone will need an ambulance soon.
Posted by Tina :: 12:09 AM :: 1 Comments:

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