If you have to lie to get your bill through or your project funded, then chances are, neither should happen. And a project of this size will be under intense scrutiny no matter what: and the one thing we've learned over the past several years is that their is no lie scum like Moeller, Cleveland, the democratian and the rest of the downtown mafia/CRUDEC/Chamber of Horrors/Identity Vancouver types won't tell to get what THEY want, even if the people forced to pay for this are ignored, berated and belittled in the process.
Two words for you: ball and park.
This is the first acknowledgement of the obvious... the first crack in the CRC armor of lies, deceit and corruption.
And it's reality.
Willamette Weeks leads the way once again, telling you the news that the democratian wouldn't print at gunpoint..
Washington Legislator: CRC "May Not Happen"
A rendering of the proposed Columbia River Crossing, as seen from Vancouver - CRCU.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is in Olympia today, doing all he can to help the flailing Columbia River Crossing—but even one of the project's biggest supporters says it might not be enough.
"Everything in their bag of tricks" includes lies and bringing gullible supporters up to the capital... but it's not enough.
"We are using everything in our bag of tricks to bring everything to bear," says Washington State Rep. Jim Moeller (D-Vancouver), who has been the project's champion in Olympia. "If we could get the president himself, I'd ask."
But Moeller is also reading the tea leaves: this $3.4 billion megaproject is probably going to die in the next few weeks. It's the first sign that proponents are acknowledging that the political wrangling to push this project through mail fail.
"I don’t mean to be a downer, but I’m also a realist that this may not happen," he tells WW.
The CRC—which will replace Interstate 5's bridges, run light rail to Vancouver and pump up five miles of interchanges—needs $450 million from Oregon and Washington this year, project leaders say. If not, the project will lose its spot for federal funding.
Thanks to the efforts of Gov. John Kitzhaber's top adviser on the project, Patricia McCaig (the subject of a WW cover story who now faces Oregon Government Ethics Commission complaints), the CRC sailed through the Oregon house and senate. But the Washington senate, led by state Sen. Ann Rivers (R-LaCenter) and the subject of a WW story, is vowing to block it.
Despite the successes in Oregon, Moeller isn't expecting the same in Washington. He says the Republicans will be setting "us back a generation" by blocking the project's funding.
"It ain’t over yet, and it won’t be over for a couple weeks," Moeller says. "It just may not be over in my favor."
The facts for this scam speak for themselves... and as much a revisionist as Moeller and the other scammers are, the closer the look at this rip-off, the more people recoil in horror at the thought of such a horrific waste of our tax money.
They even wasted the US Transportation Secretary's time by bringing HIM in... only to have him get carried out, politically, feet first from the GOP caucus.
Who next? The Klingon Princess?
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