Surprise! GOP puts personal wealth above constituents.
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Mr.Badguy
Super lefty
I really wish I had a link, but I was hoping this thread was about the guy who bent over for his campaign donor to change his states child support laws. Same guy was under fire before for casting votes for absentee legislators of whatever group he was a part of.
I can't even remember what state it was... I really need to stop posting from my phone lol.
I can't even remember what state it was... I really need to stop posting from my phone lol.
Callinectes
Proud MAGA Semi-Facist
Wait, so he was sent to congress to vote in FAVOR of high speed rail? Then his constituents(who in the best traditions of rural America, are probably his friends and neighbors), realize that this project is not beneficial to them, so they tell the guy to lobby AGAINST it? Am I getting this right? So now, because he has some skin in the game, his constituents are denied representation?
Decent people.
It's your tory quislings who go for it over here, you know. Message scrambled, or one law for the herrenvolk and another for the untermenschen?
The liberal sheep of course bought into the high speed rail line bullshit and voted for it. Then the real information started coming out about the project and more people are waking up that its just another liberal boondoggle to piss away billions of taxpayer dollars.
Voters in 2008 approved $10 billion in bonds to start construction on an 800-mile rail line to ferry passengers between San Francisco and Los Angeles in 2 hours and 40 minutes, compared with 6 hours by car now during good traffic. Since then, the housing market collapsed, multibillion-dollar budget deficits followed, and the price tag has fluctuated wildly — from $45 billion in 2008 to more than $100 billion in 2011 and, now, $68 billion.
Political and financial compromises led officials to scale back plans that now mean trains will be forced to slow down and share tracks in major cities, leading critics to question whether it will truly be the 220-mph "high-speed rail" voters were promised.
Construction has been postponed repeatedly, and a court victory this summer by opponents threatens further delays; a Sacramento County Superior Court judge said the state rail authority's plan goes against the promise made to voters to identify all the funding for the first segment before starting construction.
Even the former chairman of the California High-Speed Rail Authority, Quentin Kopp, has turned against the current project, saying in court papers that it "is no longer a genuine high speed rail system."
More hard hitting investigative reporting by rawstory....
zappasguitar
Well-known member
The numbers I presented were from the last LEGAL AND BINDING election which CLEARLY stated the voters decision, and all you've got in response is another unscientific poll.
Wacko is just desperately grasping at straws now.
zappasguitar
Well-known member
I provided the voting tallies from the counties that comprise District 21.
If you've got some numbers that counter what I provided, then let's see them.
Otherwise stop whining.
The partisan hack from the OP should shut up and support the propositions the voters in his district VOTED for.
cawacko
Well-known member
LOL, so polling is unscientific? Ok, I'll go with that. I'll remember this the next time you reference a poll to. So no public opinion polls carry any weight with you is what you are saying. And you are also saying that public opinion cannot change. Because as those of us who live in the state are aware public opinion has clearly changed on high speed rail.
It's funny in that same 2008 election Prop 8 passed which banned gay marriage. Public opinion polls today in the state show if held today that measure would fail. Yet you would tell gay right advocates that are desperate and grasping at straws to point that out? Based on your prior comment I guess you would.
cawacko
Well-known member
LOL! How does support or non support for a bullet train make one partisan? And so if you complain about anyone elected in Texas are you a partisan hack? Should you shut up and support what everyone else in your district and state wanted?
StormX
Banned
cawacko
Well-known member
We know through our buddy Zap that polls are unscientific and mean nothing but for shits and giggles Desh why do polls show over 50% of folks in very blue California being against high speed rail?
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zappasguitar
Well-known member
Enough diversion...you obviously never wanted to have a real discussion about this.
It was always just more obfuscation.
Now you try and change the subject again.
What happened to you? You used to be able to stick to the topic, now it's all just evasion, diversion and obfuscation.
zappasguitar
Well-known member
Why is it you don't want to discuss how voters already VOTED FOR the train?
Why is it you don't want to discuss the Representative from District 21 ignoring the voters in his District who clearly said they want this train, and all for his own greedy personal monetary gain?
cawacko
Well-known member
1) We already determined we don't know the exact numbers of how voters in his district voted.
2) It is 2014. The vote was 2008. I'm not sure how you think voters have never changed their mind on something. I showed you the current polls for what Californians think today.
cawacko
Well-known member
Ummm, all I've talked about is the topic. I'm not diverting anything sir.
Kind of like you and my question about where you stood on the unemployment compensation extension and you said you had gotten your first check last week, as if that mattered on a question I asked this morning!
cawacko
Well-known member
LOL, ah you really do like me Prak! Bless your heart sir. Yeah, I have no idea how I didn't respond to a question you asked me when I was drunk as fvck trying to go to bed at 4 in the morning. Of course a social conservative as yourself would never know what that's like.