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Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Hypocrisy Party

Posted by on July 20 at 16:03 PM

Confidential to the Sound Transit fan who wouldn’t stop gleefully haranguing me about the irresponsible monorail finance plan last Saturday at the Dow Constantine fundraiser: Sound Transit’s Light Rail is at least 100% over budget just for construction to get to the U. District. (Nearly $5 billion instead of $2.4 billion.) Worse, never mind 40-year bonds: Sound Transit has un-ending taxing authority to build that light rail line. I signed my name to an editorial in The Stranger denouncing the monorail finance plan and calling for a re-vote on the monorail. Would you be willing to do the same thing about Light Rail? If not, the next time you run into me at a party don’t talk to me.