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Don Young’s Gravina Island Excess
Wow.
Don Young, R-AK, needs to be reigned in. He has brought home the bacon to Alaska, where he has appropriated funds to build a bridge from a city of 14,000 to an island with 50 residents (and an airport) with (apparently) a four minute ferry ride to and from it currently.
The second project, for $223 million, is for a bridge connecting Ketchikan, population 14,000, to an island that has the city’s airport. Currently, a ferry takes folks between Ketchikan and the Gravina Island airport, which offers seven flights a day on one airline.
“It’s probably the quickest airport commute in the universe,” said Keith Ashdown, spokesman for the nonpartisan Taxpayers for Common Sense. “The ferry takes four minutes.”
The bridge’s total cost is estimated at $315 million.
Incidentally, he’s Alaska’s only member of the House of Representatives and has been in office since 1973.
UPDATE: Lots of others have thoughts on this. Green Ginger, Atlas, Democracy Market, Agitator.
I agree with RedState.org:
If the Democrats had engaged in this level of wasteful spending, every Conservative in America would be raising their voice. We must not do less when the Republicans act like Democrats, lest we been seen - rightly - as political hacks having no principles, only concerned with power. The price of silence is hypocrisy.
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Myopic Zeal quotes RedState.org about a Congressional appropriation of $223 million to an Alaskan bridge construction project.
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