In an amazingly well-written article describing the demise of the biggest scam in the history of the Northwestern United States since the Leave-it election, the Columbian cited the cause of death for the CRC Scam tonite on their web:.
UPDATE: CRC meets demise as Legislature adjourns
Washington lawmakers’ denial of funding ends project; governors pull plug
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| The Interstate 5 bridge from the Oregon side looking northwest toward Vancouver. |
By Eric Florip Columbian Staff Reporter
Originally published June 29, 2013 at 12:16 p.m., updated June 29, 2013 at 10:34 p.m.
The Columbia River Crossing is dead.
After intense political wrangling, tens of millions of taxpayer dollars spent, and a controversy that embroiled Clark County for the better part of a decade, the Washington Senate delivered the fatal blow to the beleaguered project Saturday. Lawmakers there turned back a last-ditch effort to push through a transportation revenue package that would have steered crucial funding to the CRC and other projects across the state. The full Legislature’s adjournment without approving that money left the planned Interstate 5 Bridge replacement with an aggressive schedule and a $3.4 billion finance plan ready to fall apart.
Instead, both states’ governors said Saturday that they’d pull the plug. The project’s downtown Vancouver office will begin shutting down. Its dozens of employees and consultants will land elsewhere. Funding that Oregon lawmakers had already committed will evaporate. And Clark County will move on to life after the CRC.
Gov. Jay Inslee will meet with Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber and transportation officials to decide next steps, said Inslee spokesman David Postman. But the assumption all along was that the project would fold if Washington lawmakers made no commitment this year, he said.
“We’re now looking at what that means and exactly how that’s going to proceed,” Postman said.
Kitzhaber confirmed the CRC’s demise in a statement expressing disappointment Saturday. The failure of Washington lawmakers doesn’t eliminate the safety and economic risks on the existing Interstate 5 Bridge connecting Vancouver and Portland, he said.
More:
The development is a major political defeat for Inslee, Kitzhaber and other high-profile forces that had lobbied hard for the CRC in recent months. U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., was among those leading the charge. Then-U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood visited Olympia in the session to put additional pressure on lawmakers to act.
Inslee was essentially ofer in this session, as he immediately forgot all about his campaign lies of not raising taxes and set out to screw the very people gullible enough to elect him... although it's unfortunate that his RINO opponent likely would have taken the same tack.
Jay, who played too much football without a helmet, tried to scam us with a gun-grabber bill, this transportation rip off and the idiocy of bringing that whack job LaHood out here... as if that would do anything but make Inslee look even more idiotic.
In showcasing his fringe-left partisanship, this hack babbled:
“Where have you been for the past six months? Has anyone here heard leadership from the Senate majority caucus?” Inslee said on live television. “I think not, and that’s very regrettable.”
He later added: “This was supposed to be a bipartisan majority. But it has turned into nothing but a roadblock to a transportation package.”
Of course, had this simple idiot taken the CRC off the table, there's a damned good chance he would have at least got the package out with a referendum clause, but that leadership failure he ascribes to Senate Republicans was absent in his own failure to act.
"Leadership" to a leftist nut burger like an Inslee or a Moeller means only one thing: doing it the way the democrats want. And that dog won't hunt.
In short, this whinny bitch has no one to blame but himself, because he lacked the guts to do what had to be done to get a package out... assuming it could even have made it out of the House, given that they lacked the necessary votes in the democrat controlled House to vote for bonding authority... which killed this bill long before the Senate.
It’s not clear the House even had the votes to pass the bonding authority bill, which would require a three-fifths majority. Earlier components of the transportation package scraped by on slim majorities, and only after an unsuccessful first attempt.
Among those sniveling the loudest are some of the biggest morons most responsible for the defeat of this idiocy:
Local reaction to news of the CRC’s death varied. Vancouver Mayor Tim Leavitt, a strong supporter of the project, called the outcome “politics at its worst.”
“It’s hard to find diplomatic words to describe the disappointment at what is really the failure of leadership in the legislature — by some of our representatives — to invest in the future economy and safety of the roads and bridges in our state,” Leavitt said. “Of course, it’s not just the CRC project that comes to a halt, but all the other important projects around the state that other communities were hoping would be completed, addressing the challenges they face in their local economies.”
Leavitt continued: “Sadly, that’s politics. This is unfortunately a poster child of poor politics.”
Leave-it, of course, is the epitome of the very thing he's bitching about now: "politics at it's worst."
Known for losing control of the city council and lying... repeatedly .. to get elected by claiming he was opposed to tolls when he was lying all along about that, is a total and complete hypocrite on this and a variety of other issue.
For this lying son of a bitch to claim OTHERS are engaging in "bad politics?
Insane.
Again, had this slimeball advocated taking the CRC out of this rip off, there likely could have been a package sent to the voters. But this lying scumbag didn't want the voters to have any say at all here... and lost everything as a result.
Find a mirror, Liar: take a good look. Staring back at you is one of the major reasons this scum blew up in your face.
Other scum like both Annette and Andrew Cleveland, Mike Briggs, Jim "Molehill" Moeller, Steve "Sellout" Stuart, much of the Taliban City Council of Vancouver, and various other leftists are no doubt contemplating the damage they've caused to themselves politically and how stupid they look at this point for supporting this cancer on our community.
