A TIRE INDUSTRY LOBBYIST KILLED WISCONSIN'S HIGHSPEED RAIL PROJECT?

[elehhhhna]

Are you effin KIDDING ME???!!1!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x718841

[RKP5637]

1. It's no wonder we're so F'ed up. n/t

[Lefta Dissenter]

2. and road construction buddies

Not effin kidding. :(

[aquart]

3. Where is his car? How are his tires?

[Brickbat]

4. That's Florida.

[w4rma]

5. Actually the tire industry lobbyist killed it in Florida this year and had been successful killing

it for the past 10 years or so.

[City Lights]

6. You're getting your Scotts mixed up. Scott Walker=WI - Rick Scott=FL.

Still sucks though. x(

[Skink]

12. I did that too.

[Thunderstruck]

7. Profits before people. Dontchu get it?

[Tsiyu]

8. Yep. And the For-Profit-Prison Corporations

are writing our immigration laws.

Now that they've succeeded in locking up 1 in every 100 of us adults with the "Mandatory Minimum" legislation they helped craft, all that's left is immigrants in their "growth" industry.

We Americans are owned by corporations, lock, stock and barrel. But the Teabaggers and Republicans* keep cheering the corporations on in the name of Freedom :crazy:


*(We know, we know: Lots of campaign money when you legislators let the corporations do your jobs for you....you sorry, greedy takers. )

[FeelingBlue]

9. Thank you

for posting this. This is so relevant and interesting, not to mention heartbreaking. I appreciate the post.

[Initech]

10. If Maine can elect a furniture salesman as its new govrenor...

I'm shocked, shocked, I tell ya!

[highplainsdem]

11. That's Florida's Rick Scott. Wisconsin's Scott Walker was apparently repaying road builders. Link:

http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquarter/108064274.html

Road builders' donations swung heavily to Walker
He received nine times the funds that Barrett did
Nov. 14, 2010 |

-snip-

No wonder then that Walker is grabbing headlines with his efforts to halt the Obama administration's plans to build a high-speed rail line between Milwaukee and Madison. Instead, the Republican politician is on a quixotic quest to have Congress redirect the $810 million to repair Wisconsin roads and bridges - even if most believe the dollars will end up going elsewhere.

"It sure looks like (Walker's) message is tailor-made to appeal to the road builders," said Mike McCabe, executive director of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, a nonprofit group that advocates for campaign finance reform.

McCabe's group will issue a report this week showing that the Republican candidate received $84,793 in campaign donations from road-building company employees and their spouses from Jan. 1, 2009, to Aug. 30 of this year. That dwarfs the amount taken in by any other Wisconsin candidate for statewide office.

The Journal Sentinel identified nearly $20,000 in additional road-builder donations to Walker between the primary and general elections, plus a $25,000 contribution from its trade group to the Republican Governors Association, which ran memorable TV ads likening Barrett to Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle.

-snip-

The Reason Foundation may also have been involved to some extent. I'm trying to find any info on that, but so far haven't found the sort of clear link that exists in Florida.

[eppur_se_muova]

13. History repeating itself. nt