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Good on you, Congressman!
2
Well done, Earl. You did the right thing and covered your ass. I can appreciate that.

And now it's time for the locals to flush this CRC turd.
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Jack, I think that was shorthand for "you guys don't have your shit together." He's not prividing the extra money for the extra studies that Adams and Bragdon want.

But it does add up to nothing happening, which will make you guys happy. Cuz problems like dilapidated bridges just go away if you ignore them, right?
4
Good move Earl. $3 million isn't going to get this thing any closer to fruition than $0.03 at this point.
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Shorter Earl: Wheeler had his shit together, Sam does not. Thus we fund the Sellwood Bridge, not CRC.
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A beautiful escalation by the congressmen. Vanc residents think they can get a free wider bridge to jobs and tax free big boxen at Janzen Beach and the Airport, without cost or tax. Portland progressives think they can lead a Vancouver/River County-"Live or Die" horse to water with the light rail. The burden is on Mayor Sam Adams and Mayor Tim Levitt "tolls not a foregone conclusion" to work it out, together. Check.
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Don't worry Dave J.

Sam's tweet machine will soon start blurring the work that Earl has done in Sam's name.

If if you do not believe it is Sam's work then you are a right-wing bible thumping agree you are a homophobe.

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That's rich, Blabby. I guess you missed that the "CRC is in urgent need of repair" talking point has been abandoned even by the most disingenuous proponents of the project.

You're acting a lot like the Simpsons character in your avatar.
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@ Blabby - You usually have some pretty good points on here and I'm usually the first to agree with you. Alas, on this one I think you missed the mark a bit.

This has very little to do with Mayors Adams and Leavitt requesting another study, based on what Congressman Blumenauer stated in the article.
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"We have helped get tens of millions of dollars of study money, and we're moving forward to the point where we need something more concrete to present,"

That doesn't sound like an endorsement of Adams' "let's step back" approach. It sounds like an endorsement of getting our shit together and making a proposal.
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@Blabby

So Gregoire and Kulongoski want to forge ahead with the massive bridge with tolls. Vancouver wants the massive bridge so they can get to their suburbs and back over here to not pay taxes on things they buy. They don't want to pay a toll for this privilege nor do they want light rail because they don't give a f*** about mass transit. Portlanders don't want the massive bridge and they figure if they're going to spend a shitload of money on a bridge we might as well go ahead and make the Vancouverites ride mass transit into the city because traffic is already bad enough or pay a toll so they can come here and buy our non-taxable goods. Right?

So why is the "lets step back" and take another look at this not a good idea? It sounds like Blumenauer is just cutting the legs out from the Governors, Leavitt, and I'm sure Adams is ok with not really doing anything about it right now until Vantucky and the Govs agree to less lanes and light rail like what most of Portland wants.
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Because that conversation has already taken place over many years, with millions of dollars spent.

Again liberal Portlanders, please listen carefully: Just because YOU didn't participate in the process, doesn't mean the process didn't take place.

I know this is a mind-bending concept, but sometimes things are happening in the world that you don't know about. A real mindfuck, huh? And then when you come in after the process and bitch and moan about how you weren't involved, that doesn't make you "civically engaged", it makes you the pain in the ass that came in at the end and wants to change everything.
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Blabby,

You know, I thought I was paying attention, and for a few years now. But I only ever encountered a single CRC open house south of Hayden Island. That was at the Expo Center - just across the channel from Hayden Island. Most open houses were in Vancouver.

It was almost as if the CRC folks wanted to keep the conversation among those who would support the construction of a really big bridge.

And the CRC staff's explanation for not having an open house further than a mile into Oregon? Because, according to them, the CRC won't affect us.

They're going to increase traffic capacity into Portland's already frequently clogged network of freeways by that many lanes, and it's not supposed to affect us? Really now.

And according to Joe Cortright, it'll cost every resident in the region roughly $2000. That affects us.

For that kind of money, and for that kind of flood of auto traffic, I support anyone's right to jump in - at ANY point in the process - and ask what these darned kids have been doing being maxing out the public credit card on this boondoggle. Even if you, Vancouverites who demand the rest of the region subsidize their God-given right to live in cheap suburbs, or anyone else thinks we're a pain in the ass.
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What anylandingisagoodlanding said.

Just as an observation Blabby. It's sort of funny you're using that, "you didn't participate in the process so far so kindly STFU now," argument. I remember you having a different attitude during the remodel of PGE Park discussion when the vast majority of people showing up at task force hearings and city council meetings were for the remodel. That was for a $31 million dollar thing and now that we're talking about $3.2 billion you're telling us "Portland liberals" to STFU and build the massive bridge?

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