Mich. governor says Washington dragging feet on key part of U.S.-Canada bridge

CP24 ^ | January 18, 2014

[1rudeboy]

ping

[cripplecreek]

Hell we're getting a free bridge and are only paying the minimal constitutionally required part. I knew Obama would be a problem.



Michigan legislative action thread

[Squawk 8888]

To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.

Canada Ping!

[OldMissileer]

For goodness sake give Obambi a break! That Customs Plaza costs money that is needed to hand out more EBT to Negroes and other minorities. Gotta buy those votes dontcha know.

Heck, he already got a GOPe type to help stab veterans in the back with the COLA cuts.

[morphing libertarian]

Here’s a thought, no customs plaza.

[restornu]

What happen to the family that want the contract and would build the bridge?

Can’t think of the name some Irishman.

[Pontiac]

Plans for a new bridge connecting the U.S. and Canada are moving more slowly than anticipated, partly because Washington doesn't seem to want to pay for a customs plaza on the American side of the span, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder said.

How odd, normally you would see Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's name with the obligatory (R) next to his name.

But in this article I suspect it was omitted not out of negligence or accident but so the discerning reader would not come to the conclusion that the Obama administration is not moving to support this bridge because Obama and his minions do not want to support an initiative put forth by and that might benefit a Republican governor if it is completed.

[xp38]

That would certainly speed things up.

[restornu]

This is the man

Questions about bridge battle answered amid swirling accusations

The claims and counterclaims about the benefits, the risks, the fairness and the vulnerability of Michigan taxpayers are flying in TV ads, in political caucuses, in boardrooms.

Whether to build a second span over the Detroit River or not to build?

Whether to allow Ambassador Bridge owner Manuel (Matty) Moroun to build his own twin span alongside the Ambassador, or to have the Canadian government and Michigan partner to build a new public bridge 2 miles downstream, near Zug Island?

http://buildthedricnow.com/2011/04/24/battle-over-new-bridge-is-ramping-up/

Now what we are stuck paying the build?

[cripplecreek]

Matty Maroun was never going to build another bridge. That was just his ploy to keep things tied up for his friends on the Detroit city council.

They’re pissed off because Canada isn’t going to give them “their cut”.

[restornu]

I knew something ended up stinking could not think of it

[YHAOS]

0bama has been given $2 tril for walking around money and he can’t come up with the Jack for a crumby toll plaza? (voice rising with incredulity)

[House Atreides]

This is ALL tied in to the fact that Michigan has a REPUBLICAN governor which Obama’s government Homeland Defense apparatchiks want to damage in any way possible (similar to the corrupt IRS’ treatment of Tea Party groups) added to the fact that the bridge’s proponents aren’t paying the customary “bribes” to Detroit’s corrupt Democrat overlords.

[cripplecreek]

In just about every other case I would oppose building any new infrastructure at this time but a new bridge is desperately needed. Detroit is the second busiest freight crossing on the continent and it all crosses a poorly maintained 90 year old bridge. Plus I'm not so sure about the legality of a single man owning a border crossing.

In this case, the old man in question has played a major role in making Detroit the city it is today.

Wikileaks release raises suspicions of backroom Detroit-Windsor Tunnel deal between Kwame Kilpatrick, Matty Moroun

[cripplecreek]

Jon Stewart had a pretty funny piece about the bridge a while back.

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

[bravo whiskey]

dear federalis why don’t you use the money you give to your islamist terrorist friends (aka America’s eenemies).

[cripplecreek]

Michigan is slipping away from the democrats and must be punished.

[vpintheak]

If it truly benefits America and creates jobs, the bam won’t like it.

[AnAmericanInEngland]

Hey, Ricky, repeat after me.......”Thanks, but no thanks”