Official A Bush Crony Who Will Oversee work on bridge in Minn was let go in Boston

[EV_Ares]

J. Richard Capka, the federal highway administrator, was forced out in Massachusetts over the "Big Dig."
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(NOTE: Also, the guy in charge of mining safety who dems & even republicans did not want Bush did a recess appointment. My god, Brownie, the crony in Minneapolis and the Mining guy, how much more can this country take.)
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By Paul McEnroe and Tony Kennedy, Star Tribune staff writers

The federal highway official responsible for the rebuilding of the collapsed Interstate 35W bridge was dismissed in 2002 as chief executive of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority after his leadership of Boston's controversial "Big Dig" tunnel project came under fire.
J. Richard Capka, the nation's federal highway administrator and a retired brigadier general in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, arrived in the Twin Cities on Monday night in preparation for the first public meeting today on the design and construction of the new bridge. Gov. Tim Pawlenty and state transportation officials say they are determined to complete the project by the end of 2008.

Capka, who last week viewed recovery operations in the bridge collapse, said in an interview that his short tenure with the Turnpike Authority ended with his putting together a Big Dig financial plan that held steady for the first time in the project's history. Capka's spokesman, Doug Hecox, said Capka was chosen to oversee the federal recovery and rebuilding effort in Minneapolis in part because he successfully handled transportation issues in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and played a key role in the 1997 federal disaster response to the California floods.



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http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1360930.html

[eleny]

1. Christ on a cupcake!

I can't stand it! :cry:

[aquart]

2. Bush hates American guts.

There just isn't any other believable reason.

[Bitwit1234]

3. Phew-lenty really really wants to get the republican nod for VP

he can ruin DC as well as what he has done to our state. If it wasnt' for him the bridge would have been repaired.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Where do they find all these brownies?

And where the heck is Alice B Toklas when you need her?