A toll authority that spends even a single penny of tolls on something not related to the asset being tolled (and in this day and age, that should include human cashiers), should be disbanded.
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Good grief, the MTA is flush. 100K for pictures of dogs at a rest stop? You can’t even pee at a NJ turnpike rest stop any more; they’re all closed to save money.
MTA also, intentionally it would seem, neglected to keep track of these donations in any way. But don’t worry, MTA executive director Paul Violette reports that he distributed these himself, and no other MTA employees were involved. By the way, Paul made $166,986 in 2009.
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Then how does anyone know there were any donations at all and that Violette didn’t pocket that money?
You may get your wish. Clean up is happening one organization at a time Maine Energy Alliance closed
You may get your wish. Clean up is happening one organization at a time Maine Energy Alliance closed
The business of the Left is government. Like any business it has to be funded and its cadres must be kept intact during those inevitable times when the voting public wakes up for a short while. Baldacci and his recruiters apparently trolled every gay bar in the country to bring in bureaucrats to run your life by staffing every government entity and commission they could, and even inventing quite a few of the Green variety. They think they are here to stay, on salaries 4 times higher than anyone else in the state!
So, the Left staffs up every government bureaucracy and commission. Republicans are driven from these fields and are soon allowed almost no place at the trough except as can be arranged with RINOs.
The MTA is a wonderful place to stash your friends in high-pay spots during Democrat times, and allows them to stay in protected hide-outs when the Republicans briefly take over. And the money is very helpful, too. The big money of course is in "side deals."
Now when Republicans finally do take over, their programs are doomed to failure because the people who are tasked with implementing them are guess what .... all Democrats, dummie.
Republicans have never learned to "CLEAN HOUSE" when they move in. And that goes in Augusta and DC.
Throw the goddam bums out! Start over. Close down departments. Hire the people, when you need people, that supported you ... don't leave a Democrat Party Fifth Column in place to screw your plan up.
“Read the entire article if you really want to get furious about where your tolls are going. Hint: They aren’t fixing the roads with ‘em. I hope the new governor will do something about this. Something involving prison time. “
We do the same here in Houston. Notice that you don’t read of diversions from the bus system, or from the train system. Only from toll roads. Why? Because HIGHWAYS ARE CHEAP, compared to the tolls that they can generate. Public transit needs every penny they can collect at the fare box.
Conservatives need to understand that before they start selling off highways to private operators (for unlimited tolling), like Mitch Daniels did in Indiana.