Thanks (but no thanks) to Palin, $25mil gravel road leading to site of 'bridge to nowhere' completed

[bigtree]

September 20th, 2008 06:23 PM

JUNEAU, Alaska - Alaska now has a Road to Nowhere going to what would have been the Bridge to Nowhere.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's transportation department has completed a $25 million gravel road leading to the site of a bridge that Palin, as John McCain's vice presidential candidate, now boasts that she stopped, so as to save taxpayers money. The road was built with federal tax dollars.

Ketchikan Mayor Bob Weinstein said the 3.2-mile road will be useful for road races, hunters and possibly future development. But with no bridge to serve it, that's probably about it.

"I think it will be good for recreational things like a 5K and a 10K," Weinstein said. "And instead of people walking through brush, it may be used for hunting in the area."


http://www.adn.com/nation/story/532142.html

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

1. Oh come on...

They're just laughing at the voters now.

[bigtree]

7. it's a strategy of saturation of lies

. . . to a point where the public becomes desensitized. I keep waiting for the press to have had enough and start assuming every syllable out of their mouths is false and an attempt to play them, as well as us.

[dkf]

2. So she decided they didn't need a bridge, but she kept building the road to the nonexistent bridge?

Obama needs to put this in an ad PRONTO.

[bigtree]

5. It's almost unbelievable

. . . considering all of their demagoguery about 'earmarks'

[KitchenWitch]

3. In what respect, Charlie?

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. Now, could that money have been spent on college education and schools

Let alone rape kits, environmental safeguards for that lake in that town, teachers or
anything productive?

A snow machine race track! Machines made in Japan and China.

[bigtree]

6. right in our faces

I keep waiting for their hypocrisy and lies to completely sink in. This should help.