Posted on 11/29/2016 9:51:43 AM PST by NewJerseyJoe
"New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has announced plans to completely renovate the state house.
Christie said Tuesday that staff will be moved into other office space in Trenton by July for a four-year, $300 million project. Parts of the building date to the 18th century."
(Excerpt) Read more at newyork.cbslocal.com ...
$300 million???????????
$300 million?
They could knock the place down and build a 20 story sky scrapper.....
How bad is the shape the state house is in?
Armor plate, bullet-proof glass, etc.
That doesn’t get you near $300 million.
In New Jersey, the gasoline tax has been allocated entirely to the Transportation Trust Fund for years.
White House is facing renovation as well. I wonder how much that will cost. $300 million is insane
After nearly 7 years as governor, Christie has severely weakened the floors.
For the kitchen and dining room.
[In New Jersey, the gasoline tax has been allocated entirely to the Transportation Trust Fund for years. ]
Uhhh... you clearly don’t know a thing about NJ politics.
Tax money NEVER goes to whatever project a tax bill is passed for These funds are regularly raided by politicians to line their own pockets or to grease corrupted palms.
Politicians have no reason to raid the Transportation Trust Fund to line their own pockets or grease their own palms. There are plenty of opportunities for them to do that within the TTF already.
The TTF has been run into bankruptcy on its own merit. It didn't need any politicians to raid it for other purposes.
Now that’s funny. I can’t wait to see that come up in the lamestream New Jersey media. LOL.
I lived in NJ for the first 39 years of my life. Rest assured, a tiny fraction of that money would be of far more benefit to the people of that state - to just demolish the whole thing, and to build molds for cement overshoes for the entire legislature. The rest of the money can be saved for better things, like putting up a wall to keep out NYC residents fleeing the god-awful mess that they’ve created from coming into NJ like a bunch of locusts to destroy a new place.
“In New Jersey, the gasoline tax has been allocated entirely to the Transportation Trust Fund for years. “
Poor Christie. What timing. Sheesh. Nothing good seems to fall his way anymore.
Isn’t New Jersey dead bang broke?
If so, tents would seem to make a more appropriate statement or just disbanding the inept government and rent some space in empty office buildings for the so called “indispensable” type employee/bureaucrats if any.
We have among the highest state taxes, highest auto insurance, highest sales tax, highest property taxes, highest density of toll roads but at least we always had one thing, one great thing: cheap gasoline.
Then Christie and his pals took it away.
I assume that vote carried?
Article says second oldest state house. Wrong. Third oldest. Virginia is second oldest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_capitols_in_the_United_States
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