Ed Murray’s Counterproposal: Updated
Hit with state Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson’s proposal to force Mayor Greg Nickels’s hand on the much-delayed $4 billion Alaskan Way tunnel by forcing him to come up with a plan to pay for the tunnel by April 1, house transportation committee chair Ed Murray just countered with his own viaduct proposal. The Murray plan would push Dickerson’s deadline back to January 1, 2007, and would allow Nickels to include both secured and “anticipated” funding sources in his proposal. Dickerson’s bill, which is much more strongly worded, would limit Nickels’s financing plan to money that is “appropriated, earmarked, or in hand.” A spokesperson for Dickerson says she is supporting Murray’s amendment “because of the situation in the Senate,” where there is little support for Dickerson’s proposal.
I'd say da Mayor handed it to the legislators...