Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, you lie

Chelsey — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:00:07 +0000

The Spokane corridor just got $35m in federal gov’t money to fund a transportation initiative. According to her press release, my House representative, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, calls the project “precisely the type of project the government should be funding.” She goes on to say she voted against the stimulus package because “it didn’t include enough measures to truly stimulate our economy” — yet the $35m grant for this project comes from the stimulus, which she does not mention. (She says the TIGER grant is from the Dept. of Transportation, but fails to acknowledge that that is part of the stimulus package and instead reaffirms her lack of support for the stimulus package.) So essentially, she says she is in favor of and has been a champion of this project…how? By voting against the money for it? Finally, at the bottom of her post, she says, “To date Washington State has provided $555 Million in funding for this project compared to only $18 Million by the federal government.” That new $35m is … where, exactly? Escrow?

Politicians are flat-out lying. If we don’t call them on it, they’re going to keep doing it, and the Big Lie will keep growing.

On a related note, see also JD.

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Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, you lie