One Republican state senator keeps looking wistfully at Illinois and their high gas taxes. While they are attacking Boswell (D) for supporting increased gas taxes. And Boswell is barely running a campaign. Even the daily liberal, er Des Moines Register picked his opponent. He (Tom Latham) might just be the token R for the election, though.
Well, I can't seem to find his name. Who is the asshat? I know he's not my Senator, mine's a D. When they were talking about the gas tax last session I was of the same opinion as a lot of people. No raise until they do something about all the waste. It doesn't take 6 people to watch 2 others trow hot-patch in a pothole. It seems like DOT and a lot of other state agencies have 3 supervisors for every worker.
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ReplyDeleteThe kick in the nuts is that we have a projected surplus. The Dems want to baseline budget the hell out of it, of course. Spend the extra on 1 time improvements, and piss off on stuff that adds to yearly expenditures.