Imagine: Jim "The Candy Man" Moeller taking credit for wasting $39.7 million.

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State Rep Jim "Candy Man" Moeller (Neo-Comm 49) best known to this point for authoring a bizarre tax, a tax on some candies that were candies, and some candies that while obviously were candy, somehow were classified as NOT being candy (Weird, to be sure, but consider the author) and subsequently slaughtered across the state last November, actually takes pride in vaporizing our money on the unneeded, unwanted and horrifically expensive I-5 Bridge/Loot Rail project.  Of course, he doesn't make any mention of his failed effort to burn $31 million ADDITIONAL dollars besides those we're dumping into a campfire as it is.

Rep. Jim Moeller D-Vancouver, who sits on the House Transportation Committee, wrangled $39.7 million for continued design and planning work on the Columbia River Crossing over the next biennium, including $14.7 million in federal transportation dollars sitting in the Washington State Department of Transportation coffers.


“These are not state funds,” Moeller said. “These are savings that WSDOT had from other projects across the state, so I snagged them.”

Yup, the number of wasted dollars has now grown to around $160 million as we desperately struggle to catch up with the unfathomable waste of over $400 million on the SR 520 project, aka the Evergreen Floating Bridge.  We can't let those clowns in Seattle waste even more hundreds of millions of dollars then we do... let's get to wasting!

Moeller, who has turned elective arrogance into a science, is one of the many in government who have absolutely no concern with what the people want.

That's part and parcel with the continuing, massive wastes of tens of millions to modify intersections on SR 500... because apparently, people have yet to fully grasp the concept of "red light, green light," so they have a tendency to T-Bone each other.

Of course, using even more typically governmental brilliance, we blew the Kingdome to pieces while we still owed $150 million on it from various repairs and re-roofing... re-roofing that caused the deaths of at least 2 workers as I recall... but hey, they at least died COMPLETELY in vain.

No one has ever confused our government leaders with geniuses.  Particularly when you take credit for wasting money.
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