It’s not like Clark County voters weren’t warned about JayRob McInslee (Rob McKenna) and his liberalism. And he sure didn’t waste any time expressing support for the very project conservatives in Clark County have been denied a vote, ignored and opposed from day one.
A late Wednesday, August 8, 2012 Columbin article, the unofficial daily newsletter for the CRC & Democrat Party praises McKenna for backing the CRC during a speech at a Rotary Club meeting in Vancouver.
McInslee said, “There has to be a new crossing. We can’t sit back and continue to consume what we have and not replace it. And it’s absolutely vital to our economy.”
Obviously he is clueless as to how many have tried to speak out and advocate additional bridges across the Columbia River.
He apparently is clueless that the bridge relieving any congestion is not even a factor for Portland’s Metro, their only concern being forcing us to accept their financially failing light rail that we have indicated 3 times in the past we do not want.
JayRob also said, “I know there are at least a few people who don’t think it needs to be replaced at all, and I’m still trying to understand that.”
Maybe that ODOT, until recently, admitted the old bridges have another 50 years of life contributes to that idea of those few. But overall, most of us are for a new bridge, but without Portland’s financially plagued light rail attached to it.
As indicated previously on this blog, the bridge does not appear on the structurally deficient bridge list, indicating it I not in any immediate danger of collapsing, as he next pondered when he said, “That corridor is too vital to allow it to fall into the river, so we have to figure out what the right replacement looks like, what we can afford, when it needs to be done — all of that.”
First of all, what needs done is CRC brought to a screeching halt and a Justice Department Investigation launched into just where our nearly $150 Million has gone and why we continue to pour more and more money at it and after 15 years of planning, cannot even get the river clearance right.
Next, he could look into why local officials have done whatever they can to ignore citizens, deny us promised votes and decide we are going to be stuck paying for this monstrosity forever.
Of course, here is no guarantee he will ever be Governor as he has rapidly been losing his once double digit lead in the polls, now lagging behind nearly by as much.
He has taken several steps contrary to conservatives for some time now, fighting to give the names, addresses and signatures of signers of R-71 to any and all homosexual activist group after they announced they planned on having “uncomfortable conversations” with singers, opposes ending birthright citizenship for offspring of illegal aliens, believes he can tweak Obamacare to make it affordable and functional, distanced himself from Wisconsin’s successful Governor, Scott Walker, let public unions know they have nothing to fear from him and much more.
And now, he supports the single most contentious matter in Southwest Washington.
The primaries are over now and he will be one of the candidates vying to govern our struggling state. It’s too late for anyone else to enter, given our Top Two Primary. It’s too late for changing your vote.
Once again, it comes down to Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dem.
I’m sure Tim Leavitt, Steve Stuart and other supporters of this bankrupting project at C-Tran are elated to know it will not matter which one wins in November.
All that matters is screwing taxpayers over again.
Don’t blame me, I supported a conservative.
UPDATE: Clark County Assessor Peter Van Nortwick, a strong McKenna supporters said in a facebook comment, “Lew, I got it right from Rob right now in a text. He does not support a new bridge with light rail on it. He sees the bridge is old and will need to be replaced.”
Strange that if that is how McKenna stands, he couldn’t say so and that he said he has no idea why the project is so contentious and so many are opposed to it.
