Please make no mistake. I did not approve of Pawlenty’s massive, wholesale quantity, hostile anti-urban line item vetoes made so vindictively Monday. The man is evil and an enemy of the city! [Actually, it is not my role to proclaim him any more evil than we all are, but he brings about evil deeds.
And he may not be any more an enemy of the city than other suburbanites, but he is in a position to make this more
manifest.]
I did note the veto of Central Corridor rail funding and quoted Representative Hausman as saying that the veto had single-handily killed the boondoggle [mournful for her, joyful for those of us who have been trying to save our city and University Avenue].
Although, I had suggested that there might be hyperbole involved, it was a time for hope. Sometimes even bad people can do good things for bad reasons.
Today we learn in an AP story carried by the DPP that Norm is not happy about this veto of a boondoggle he has supported for 20 years, but the official gubernatorial spokesperson Brian McClung says that Pawlenty still has the “utmost respect” for our senior Senator.
And it reports that on his radio show this morning that Pawlenty said about the project, “It may come back, we'll see,"
Somehow, it just won’t die.
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4 comments:
I have noticed several times that you just carry on irrationally about the Cent Corridor. Yes, it does present problems, especially for small tennant business folks and the suckers who live near U Av but not near a station.
But it could be done right and if it is, the area will be the better.
Of course, that’s a big if.
But maybe you can show us how to do it right.
i don't think that Ray needs to show us how to do right. You can do a good job for other people sometimes just by pointing out what is wrong.
But it is strange. Im not so anti--train as our host here, but this might be the only good thing the governor has done for St. Paul and he's doing it for bad reasons.
Midway Barb
Thank you, Midway Barb, for the support, and I really liked the last sentence. It contains a lot of truth.
RS
In your post on Obama's "imam" you admitted that you used to be a theology student.
I don't know that you had to do that.
Your choice of words ""Actually, it is not my role to proclaim him any more evil than we all are, but he brings about evil deeds. And he may not be any more an enemy of the city than other suburbanites, but he is in a position to make this more manifest."
Maybe a lawyer would use that language, but it sounds like you've spent too much time in church.
Kenneth
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