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Dino Rossi unveiled his transportation plan, and Fuse has concluded that after months of hard work his campaign staff did get the plan's first two words right. The plan begins to lose touch with reality beginning with its third word ("progressive"), a problem that quickly snowballs. (His plan opens up with "Creating A Progressive Transportation System for the Future).
Dino Rossi's plan is a recycled 1950s-style freeway construction bonanza with a twist - the twist is that he's financing it by diverting funding from schools rather than with gas taxes.
Rossi's plan is overwhelmingly focused on building new highways, has no funding for transit service, and is funded primarily by a dead on arrival proposal to divert funding from the heavily stressed generally fund. Over 50% of the general fund is allocated to education, and it currently faces a $2.4 billion shortfall.
If you like traffic and political gridlock, this is the plan for you.
Dino Rossi's plan is a recycled 1950s-style freeway construction bonanza with a twist - the twist is that he's financing it by diverting funding from schools rather than with gas taxes.
Rossi's plan is overwhelmingly focused on building new highways, has no funding for transit service, and is funded primarily by a dead on arrival proposal to divert funding from the heavily stressed generally fund. Over 50% of the general fund is allocated to education, and it currently faces a $2.4 billion shortfall.
If you like traffic and political gridlock, this is the plan for you.
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Our goal is to make Washington more progressive, by dramatically increasing active public support for progressive causes and leaders. Working with other progressive groups, we will use intenet based organizing and communications to help achieve major advances in progressive public policy. Our goal is to add serious numbers of real people and stronger communications to progressive causes, and to have a good time doing it.
Our web site is still developing, but worth bookmarking. It will be a base not only for our campaigns, but also a platform with online organizng tools to help activists achieve greater success.
Our goal is to make Washington more progressive, by dramatically increasing active public support for progressive causes and leaders. Working with other progressive groups, we will use intenet based organizing and communications to help achieve major advances in progressive public policy. Our goal is to add serious numbers of real people and stronger communications to progressive causes, and to have a good time doing it.
Our web site is still developing, but worth bookmarking. It will be a base not only for our campaigns, but also a platform with online organizng tools to help activists achieve greater success.
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