Katy Trail and the future
Submitted by DavidRust on Wed, 06/01/2005 - 10:25am.
If the Governor can give away the Katy bridge, whats to keep him from saying the buildings at Roaring River State Park at Cassville, Mo. are in bad repair, lets give the park away. Call it "privitization" if you will. Perhaps he can apply this logic to the roads in Missouri, ranked one of the worst in the nation. Give them to his friends at UP, then we are free of the liability and free of all repairs in the future. Something to think about.
Perhaps I had the mistaken idea that State property could not be given away, it had to be declared surplus and sold to the highest bidder. I guess in this case this highest bidder only counts in contributions.
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Boonville Bridge provides lesson in State Politics
This is a link to a story which just ran in the SE Missourian in Cape Girardeau.
http://www.semissourian.com/story.html$rec=163789
"Boonville's mayor and Democratic insiders point to Union Pacific's $9.8 million contract last year with Fulton-based OCCI Inc. to remove the bridge. The Fulton company gave $1,200 to Blunt on Election Day and $3,000 to the Missouri Republican Party on Feb. 28 -- around the time its vice president, Ted Kettlewell, was urging Blunt's office to take action on the bridge."