[publiusF27]

maybe some of the highway construction companies are donors?

Opposing their project would be an odd way of supporting a donor, wouldn't it?

[mnehring]

Opposing their project would be an odd way of supporting a donor, wouldn't it?

Not unless he gives them a little wink and pushes tens of millions in earmarks to them knowing he has never once passed a bill in his decades in office but the symbolic move of putting the bill up would still keep his cult supporters on their little leash.