Speaking of loot rail Sound Transit and our own bridge replacement around here...

By now, most reading this are aware that 1. The voters of the Sound Transit district screwed themselves by voting FOR a $54 billion bond to extend the current worthless insanity of the loot rail system that now needs a 62-mile extension... which is what the initial 62-mile extension promised, and

2. It turns out NOW that Sound Transit admits to a likely shortfall of as much as a paltry additional $40 billion more to accomplished what they stupidly promised for $54 billion a mere 9 years ago.
Which around here locally reflects the lies we've been told for a decade about what the I-5 loot rail project/bridge replacement scam is supposed to cost, a number now projected to be as much as $17 billion, more than doubling the costs of this unneeded, unwanted and unaffordable rip-off designed to infest Clark County with the repeatedly-rejected-by-voters light rail rip off.

But I digress.

On November 9, 2016, I wrote the following when I discovered the nimrods in the Sound Transit area voted for that insanity.

https://clarkcountypolitics.blogspot.com/2016/11/sound-transit-voters-agree-to-waste-54.html

"I'm struggling to understand it. This is a MASSIVE waste of money that will, if history has judged... accomplish absolutely nothing except to enrich the special interests, set up a series of under-funded projects that will make the $54 billion look like a parking ticket by the time these clowns are done screwing these people... and when the system is built... it will make ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENCE."

(one of many articles about this scam here at the link:)

Weird, isn't it? I'm just a local yokel nobody. How did *I* know what the politicians supporting this stupidity apparently, did NOT know?

Does ANYONE believe that once this insane waste of money begins construction, that whatever lie of a number they actually come up with to pay for this insane project will not any closer to the promised number than Sound Transit as a percentage of the promised cost?

Almost exactly like the Sound Transit scam?

But the Supreme Court of this state decided that campaign lies are perfectly OK.

https://clarkcountypolitics.blogspot.com/2017/02/a-quick-reminder-our-state-supreme.html

"The best remedy for false or unpleasant speech is more speech, not less speech," Johnson wrote. "The importance of this constitutional principle is illustrated by the very real threats to liberty posed by allowing an un-elected government censor like the PDC to act as an arbiter of truth."

Where Justice Johnson blew it, of course, is where he referred to "lying speech," as "unpleasant speech."

Which causes one to ponder: if you make financial decisions on information provided by alleged "trustworthy source," i.e. government, and the end result is you lose billions of dollars, I would venture to say the campaign of lies used to gain approval for that funding is a great deal more than "unpleasant speech."

In fact... I would venture to say that such a result would be outright fraud.

Candidates and government at all levels rightfully viewed that decision an INVITATION to lie, cheat, or exaggerate, or all 3.

After all, the Supreme Court of this state TOLD them it was OK and there's no accountability.

After all, under those conditions?

Why wouldn't they?