Staff and Wire Reports
Posted: 07/06/2012 06:31:47 PM PDT
The Redlands Tea Party Patriots moved quickly in opposing the state Legislature’s support of a bullet train in California.
Thursday afternoon, the Assembly approved S.B. 1029, authorizing the state to begin selling about $4.5billion in state bonds for the nation’s first high-speed rail system, taking an initial step toward the ambitious $68billion project that Gov. Jerry Brown hopes will be a part of his legacy.
By midnight Thursday, John Berry, a spokesman for the Redlands Tea Party group, had posted on Facebook that petitions against the bullet train funding were en route.
On Friday, the state Senate approved the funding 21-16 on a party-line vote.
“That’ll just double our determination to get this issue on the ballot,” said Berry. “It’s the Golden State, but only if it’s somebody else’s gold. In this case, they’re foisting a mess of debt onto my son.”
The bill authorizes the state to begin selling $2.6billion in voter-approved bonds to build an initial 130-mile stretch in the Central Valley.
That would allow the state to collect about $3.2billion in federal funding that could have been rescinded if state lawmakers failed to act Friday.
The opposition group is calling the project a “$98 billion boondoggle.”
“Jerry Brown has never been honest about the cost of this train,” said Berry. “He’s more interested in his legacy than how much the state will have to digest.”
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While you are out there defend taxpayer from bills to seize properties for football stadiums, shopping malls and grocery stores. Defend the taxpayer from Joint Power Authorities that are using taxpayer credit to float bonds for elite private schools. Tell the Feds to take back all grants, we are a state with state rights and responsibilities and we will reject all federal funds until we get our fiscal house in order.
Come on Tea Party open you eyes, look locally, all politics are local. The local yokel sitting on the school board today can be the next Senator McCloud Negrete, casting the deciding vote.
Governator of Redevelopment “Moonbeam” Brown better get his priorities straight for the people and stop counting on that FREE MONEY from the Feds to stimulate employment in California. The government can’t create jobs… that’s the job of the private sector, they need to focus on EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYMENT and giving SMALL BUSINESS a chance to survive in California, moving away from the moniker of being the WELFARE STATE!
Cali can’t go BK like Stockton has, but then again this TRAIN TO NOWHERE is going to have the same effect.
Who did they have come-up with the projected ridership numbers… don’t tell me, it’s another one of those MEANS JUSTIFYING THE END projects, like turning Norton into a passenger airport by hiring a convicted felon to GET’R DONE and then pissing-away $100′sM on REDEVELOPMENT of the San Bernardino International Airport.
So SBIAA Board members Mayor Pat and VIP Josie are still convinced that Spenser’s motto BUILD IT AND AN AIRLINE WILL COME isn’t just a plan for squandering public funds? How’s that working out 4 u 2 DemoRats now that the whole mess is being investigated by the FBI? Not too well since the feds are yanking their REIMBURSEMENT FUNDS and the state has outright killed the program. Guess now is not the time to ask any favors from Governator Moonbeam or from anyone else in the Obamanation Administration, since it would be way too obvious that all these supposed JOB CREATING projects are nothing more than a political mirage.