Posted on 11/09/2003 10:16:32 AM PST by Willie Green
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:35:24 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Four of seven delegates from Pennsylvania spent at least $13,600 in public funds attending a toll road conference in Paris.
An examination of records by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and KDKA-TV showed that the state also might have dropped as much as $22,500 in public money on promotional items at the Sept. 20-24 meeting of the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association in the City of Light.
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
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I was one of the fools that thought when the pub's got in controle that they would stop being bought off for these toll road extensions. Boy was I ever wrong. Now they want to give away the raod that are already built to private business for more toll roads. What a back door tax increase.
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