Thursday, December 9, 2010

High-Speed Rail Money for Wisconsin

The train is dead.

From the Associated Press:

The Obama administration is taking $1.2 billion in high-speed rail money away from Ohio and Wisconsin and awarding it to other states, congressional sources said Thursday.

Both Ohio and Wisconsin have elected incoming Republican governors opposed to the rail projects. The Department of Transportation plans to award their money to rail projects in California, Illinois, New York and other states, sources said. They spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly before the department's announcement.

...Wisconsin Gov.-elect Scott Walker campaigned against the Madison-to-Milwaukee rail line, which would have received $810 million. Walker created a website opposed to the project.

A Wisconsin congresswoman on Thursday accused Walker of killing jobs in his home state "a month before he's even been sworn into to office."

"Instead of graciously accepting a return of our hard-earned tax dollars, Governor-elect Walker's hard-lined position is sending them somewhere else to create jobs," Democratic Rep. Gwen Moore said in a statement.

Gee, based on the slant of this article, I wonder who the "anonymous source" is.

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