Posted on 12/16/2005 7:04:19 AM PST by AmericanDave
Alaska's governor outlined a plan Thursday to spend almost $200 million on two bridge projects, including one dubbed the "Bridge to Nowhere" that triggered sharp criticism across the nation.
Congress recently dropped its funding provisos for the bridges in Ketchikan and Anchorage, but let the state keep the money and left it up to state officials to figure out how to spend it.
Gov. Frank Murkowski in a budget proposal Thursday said he wants to use $91 million for the Ketchikan project in the fiscal year beginning in July.
The two-bridge project would connect the town's airport to Revillagigedo Island, where most of the 13,000 residents of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough live.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
It's not thatmuch. But I think the money should come from taxes on oil companies up there, IMO.
with all the starving children in america? (thats the argument they used to cut Iraq spending...)
For pete's sake! It would be cheaper to buy all 100 islanders their own private launches with which to cross the channel.
Thank God for these fiscal conservatives!!
We must remember that, no where is sometimes somewhere: Somewhere as in; somewhere over the rainbow, snow birds fly, etc., etc.
Don't you wish that your state government was forward thinking and set up an account where the people who live there would benefit from the export sale of your state's natural resource?
To change how the "oil money" is spent would take a change in the Alaska State Constitution.
Our state do something "forward thinking"......(Washington)...BAAAWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
:-)
We could end up losing the Governorship of AK over Murkowski's utterly inept leadership. It seems like as soon as he went to Juneau, he lost his mind.
The 200+ million that was"un-earmarked" but still sent to the state.
It now stands @ 93 million in the Governor's budget, but by the time everyone in the legislature takes bite...
You get the picture.
The bridge was horribly underfunded at 200 million - the whispered estimate is 100 million short!
93 Million isn't going to scratch the surface
Murkowski has been a banker and then a U.S. senator prior to becoming governor. If these careers don't give you an over-inflated ego, I don't know what will.
Saint Sarah is the democrats great hope to divide the republican party. If she is successfull she will put in office another Tony Knowles democrat by pitting conservatives against each other just the way Knowles did. I used to think she had a great future but now she looks like just another tool of the socialists in this state to divide and conquer. She has already shown a willingness to cater to the democrats just like Mcain to get her pretty face on the news.
He doesn't deserve to be reelected.
Alaska needs a conservative in the governorship.
http://www.palinforgovernor.com/
In a perfect world Wayne Anthony Rogers would be my pick. Fact of the matter is we got what we got and Murkowski is a hell of a lot better than Ulmer, Knowles, Spendowitz or Croft. If we don't hang together in the next race we will all be able to say we stood our ground even though we elected another socialist to run the state into a Washington,Oregon clone. I just don't see Palin doing the right thing for the state, she seems out to satisfy her vendetta and ambition. This comes from a guy who used to be totally infatuated with her as a future candidate.
You just can't make this stuff up can you ?
Good grief is that moronic. In the next revolution I'll just go for "No Taxation" and to heck with the representation.
yES, I believe the article mentioned 200-400 million total as the estimated cost (before overruns)...
$100 million is the max that may be authorized for each project in a year since the earmarks were removed.
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