4/10/12
State Sen. Barbara Buono (D-Middlesex) issued the following statement today regarding the GOA Report regarding the ARC Tunnel cancellation.
“When Gov. Christie shot down the ARC tunnel, he sacrificed jobs, transit improvements, and $3 billion in federal funds. That was bad enough, but now we learn that he was misleading the public regarding the facts of the project.
“We’ve seen this pattern of behavior by the Christie Administration previously when they misrepresented the facts surrounding the $400 million in Race To The Top federal education funding that his administration failed to secure.
“Recently, the governor and his press secretary gave incompatible answers on whether Christie is pushing legislation bought and paid for by right-wing industrialists.
“The governor has created a pattern of sacrificing truth at the altar of his political ambition. This latest revelation – that he misstated facts to kill the largest public transit project in the nation – may be the most egregious and damaging.
“He said at the time, ‘I don't want to hear about the jobs it will create.’ Now, he owes an apology to the workers in the unemployment lines who would have benefitted from 6,000 construction jobs and 40,000 permanent jobs that were tied to the ARC project.”
4 comments:
Christie did the right thing. The cost over-runs would have cost the taxpayers triple the amount the democrats projected. You can't fool those in construction. It was set up to be an endless money pit. Buono doesn't know what she is talking about
It would have been put on the backs of taxpayers no matter $5 or $5 billion. Christie did the right thing by thinking of the taxpayers for once! Shut up and go back to sleep buono, nice try!
If you read completely the articles in yesterday's New York Times and today's Asbury Park Press, it appears that Christie, under the guise of killing the project for the pure benefit of the individual taxpayer, did the right thing for his political career first.
The many short and important long term benefits of the project were lost because he ultimately had to look good and find money for the transportation trust fund without raising taxes. The welfare of the many was sacrificed for the benefit of ONE newly elected govenor.
Going forward with a well managed no political handouts corruption free project was the answer to bring the project in on or under budget.
Unfortunately, Christie doesn't have the leadership and executive skills to make that kind of collaborative effort happen -- he doesn't play well in other people's sand boxes and really dislikes sharing his own.
Who are you kidding, this Governor crosses the aisle to get things done that BENEFIT the taxpayer not hurt the taxpayer. Come on a tunnel and train to Macys on the backs of NJ taxpayers, Give me a break!
Governor again saved huge waste of taxpayer dollars
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