Whoever has the most money to buy ‘speeches’ wins... the hellhole is forming....
“He’s taken two billion dollars out of the highway plan in his six year administration”
Does anyone know what he spent it on ?
Class action suit for taxation under false pretenses.
Brownback is considered a ‘great Conservative” and a “great Christian” etc. etc. and he won re-election in 2014.
The contractors lose business if highway money is redirected so naturally they are lobbying public opinion with emotional ads making emotional arguments so they can get rich off taxpayer dollars.
Doyle the previous governor to Scott Walker pulled the same stuff off in Wisconsin. Diverting a 3 billion$ road fund to cover WEA (teacher union) retirements fund. When Walker ran a constitutional referendum was held to stop these types of fund diversion and was passed along with Walker’s election. And it met the second constitutional requirement being on the ballot and passing when Walker won his recall.
A few years ago an interstate bridge in Minnesota fell apart killing many as the needed maintenance was not done as the federal monies needed to repair it went in to the general fund and the money used for social programs instead.
California Governor Gray Davis was recalled because of this kind of crap & other crap.
HE raided the state highway find 3 times & left an IOU in place for the funds.
This came to light when the voters went after him for crazy deals regarding power coming into the state-—a state which was growing fast & where the enviros didn’t want ANY new power plants.
In all of the hubub, the stolen highway funds that went into the General Fund was revealed. That is what brought California ‘ARNOLD’.
If that bill goes through, watch for the pols to call for an increase in gasoline taxes “to repair the badly deteriorated roads and infrastructure”.