But this exhibition of lies and stupidity on the part of Gov. Dimbulb is hard to beat:
UPDATE: Governor calls Benton, Rivers a brick wall to economic progress and CRC (with video)
Inslee also tours new health and bioscience high school
Originally published July 26, 2013 at 2:41 p.m., updated July 26, 2013 at 10:13 p.m.
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A group of Clark County business leaders told Gov. Jay Inslee on Friday that they weren’t ready to surrender just yet on the Columbia River Crossing project.
Inslee told them he will do everything in his power to try to move the CRC forward before a crucial Sept. 30 federal deadline for the project, but apparently nothing has changed since the Legislature’s second special session ended June 29. The legislature, which was asked to commit $450 million to the project, has adjourned without doing so, and the CRC offices have already begun shutting down.
Inslee, a Democrat, called state Sens. Don Benton, R-Vancouver, and Ann Rivers, R-La Center, a brick wall to economic progress in the state, because of their efforts this year to block money for the CRC.
“The road to this bridge runs through two senators from this region,” Inslee told the group while on a tour of Clark County. “Those two senators have stymied any progress on this bridge project. … Until that changes, there’s not a lot I or you can do about that.”
Even if the controversial CRC project had been removed from the list of projects in this year’s $10 billion transportation revenue plan, the bill still would have died, Inslee said. That’s because the conservative Senate majority caucus simply declined to advance it, he said.
“Zilch, bupkes, zero,” was how Inslee described the mostly-Republican Senate majority caucus’ effort to move forward on a transportation package. “There was no plan. … We had no vote on a transportation package in the Senate this year. There was no compromise offered. There was no project list. There was nothing.”
Inslee emphasized that transportation improvements are vital to the state’s economy, and companies consider traffic and freight congestion when deciding where to locate and expand.Leaders disappointed
The 25 business leaders Inslee addressed in Camas during Friday’s roundtable talk thanked the governor for investing his political capital in fighting for the CRC this year. They also spoke of their disappointment in the project’s failure and about what could have been.
John Rudi, president of Thompson Metal Fab, said it was too bad that the height of the proposed bridge was used by critics to attack the project. Thompson Metal Fab was one of the businesses upstream from the Interstate 5 Bridge affected by the height issue. The company would have received mitigation money from the CRC for a loss of future revenues caused by the CRC’s lower bridge height.
“You’re never going to build a bridge high enough to satisfy me, and that’s OK,” Rudi told Inslee, adding that the cost to raise a bridge high enough to accommodate all river users would be “astronomical.”
Thomas Hickman of Oregon Iron Works, another business that would have received mitigation dollars, said if the CRC’s demise eliminates the chance to secure federal dollars for a new bridge, then his company loses the chance to create more jobs. Oregon Iron Works helps construct bridges, and the federal dollars would have required that the CRC contract with U.S. companies rather than cheaper overseas suppliers.
“It would have added literally thousands of jobs,” Hickman said. Oregon Iron Works and Thompson Metal Fab are “two of the largest bridge builders left in the western United States.”
At a later press conference, Inslee said his goal at the Camas business meeting was to regroup on the CRC following the 2013 legislative session, and to make sure the community knows who dropped the ball on the transportation package and the CRC. He said he met with Rivers and Benton several times to try to change their minds, but no line of reasoning worked.
When reached for comment Friday, Rivers reiterated that the CRC project was too flawed to accept. Even though Thompson Metal Fab and Oregon Iron Works are behind the project, the proposed bridge height of 116 feet over the Columbia River would still prevent other companies from locating upstream of the I-5 Bridge, she said.
“This bridge actually poses an economic development threat,” Rivers said. She added that she is working with legislators from the 49th District in Vancouver to try to come up with a different path to address problems on the current Interstate 5 Bridge.
“I am hopeful that the governor will get back to the table” to discuss other options, Rivers said.
As Inslee and some business leaders continue to beat the CRC drum, the CRC office in Vancouver has started the shutdown process. About half of the CRC staff has been let go. The remaining staff, paid with leftover federal planning dollars, are working to archive information and tie up other loose ends.
What part of "no" do these slimeballs not understand?“All closeout activities, with the exception of public disclosure and contractual obligations, will be concluded by Sept. 1, 2013,” Washington Transportation Secretary Lynn Peterson said in announcement earlier this month.
This is genuine idiocy on Outslee's part. There is no support for this rip off in these two districts of any real numbers.
If this moron, who refused to compromise on loot rail, thinks coming down here and beating on these two senators is going to accomplish anything, he's more brain damaged than it appears to the casual observer... and that's saying something.
In addition to his other character flaws, you can add "pathological liar" to his resume'.
“Zilch, bupkes, zero,” was how Inslee described the mostly-Republican Senate majority caucus’ effort to move forward on a transportation package. “There was no plan. … We had no vote on a transportation package in the Senate this year. There was no compromise offered. There was no project list. There was nothing.”As always, my position is that if you have to lie to get elected (Leave-it) or to get your project built (the CRC Scammers) then it shouldn't BE built.
When this simple idiot lied through his tooth by babbling: "There was no compromise offered," Mathieu SHOULD have asked him this:
"Governor, were you ever approached with a compromise where light rail was taken off the bridge and the bridge height was raised to the current level of the bridge we have now, and is that not, in fact, a "compromise" that you claim was never offered?"
Of course, the dim bulb was either too stupid to ask that question or ordered not to hold the brain-damaged moron of a governor accountable for his lies.
Either way, the people of this community were lied to... again... by the newspaper.
And that just seems to be par for our course.
At a later press conference, Inslee said his goal at the Camas business meeting was to regroup on the CRC following the 2013 legislative session, and to make sure the community knows who dropped the ball on the transportation package and the CRC. He said he met with Rivers and Benton several times to try to change their minds, but no line of reasoning worked.And this stupid son-of-a-bitch never ONCE offered ANY compromise. It was ALWAYS "no loot rail, no bridge."
And see, that's how the fringe-left whack jobs like Outslee operate: if there's "compromise," THEY ain't the ones who'll be doing it.
Some compromise.
Why the left generally and the CRC Scammers specifically have to be such lying scumbags remains a mystery.
Meanwhile, beating on two senators who are doing a brilliant job of representing their districts without offering any compromise on HIS side of this issue shows that the moron running this state played too much football without a helmet.
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