pudge's Journal: WA Democrats Don't Care About People Dying

U.S. 2 is a very dangerous road near me. There's been 2,600 crashes and 47 people have died since 1999. It needs money so it can be fixed. The state has been spending a lot of money on roads. Why not U.S. 2?

"It's really brutal to say, but the people from those districts didn't support anything as far as funding," said Senate Transportation Committee Chairwoman Mary Margaret Haugen, D-Camano Island. Â Consequently, less revenue went to districts with legislators who didn't support the tax measure, she explained. Â"That certainly is a big reason."

Incredible. So because our representatives voted against the gas tax -- which was, of course, not a vote against funding, but a vote against a certain method of funding -- voters are being punished with more and more deaths on the highway.

It is criminal. She should be voted out of office next year, and the other Democrats should immediately strip her of her chairmanship.

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A-fucking-mazing

[ces]

I don't really care if the representatives (and by extension the voters they represent) were against the tax or raising taxes at all or whatever. That highway is used by the whole state (one of 4 year-round routes between the West and East half of the state). Therefore not fixing the safety problems is an issue for anyone who might find themselves driving on it.

This would be almost as stupid as not maintaining I-5 through Lewis County because generally people who live there (and their representatives) are v

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[pudge]

Fie ... all I can say is "lesser of two evils".

Which one is the lesser, is the question?

For me, it is clearly not the Democrats ...

I had lunch recently with various political folks, including one I'd never met before: Doug Simpson. He was one of the architects of the Republican takeover of the WA legislature in 1994. And he was very clear: the reason the Republicans' dominanace of the WA legilsature was so short-lived was because once they got power they did more to work to maintain that power than to live up to the reasons they got elected in the fi

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[Bill Dog]

It is criminal. She should be voted out of office next year, and the other Democrats should immediately strip her of her chairmanship.

Heh, except that's the opposite of the Democrat way -- they *give* you a chairmanship if you're a criminal.